Publications

Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin (2025). Equilibrium flow: From Snapshots to Dynamics. ArXiv.
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Nam Le, Patrick Erickson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh Bongard (2025). Giving Simulated Cells a Voice: Evolving Prompt-to-Intervention Models for Cellular Control. GECCO 2025.
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Yanbo Zhang, Sumeer A. Khan, Adnan Mahmud, Huck Yang, Alexander Lavin, Michael Levin, Jeremy Frey, Jared Dunnmon, James Evans, Alan Bundy, Saso Dzeroski, Jesper Tegner, Hector Zenil (2025). Exploring the role of large language models in the scientific method: from hypothesis to discovery. npj Artificial Intelligence.
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Yanbo Zhang
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, Benedikt Hartl
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, Hananel Hazan
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, Michael Levin (2025). Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms. In ICLR 2025.
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Benedikt Hartl
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, Yanbo Zhang
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, Hananel Hazan
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, Michael Levin (2024). Heuristically Adaptive Diffusion-Model Evolutionary Strategy.
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Yanbo Zhang, Sara Imari Walker (2022). A Relational Macrostate Theory Guides Artificial Intelligence to Learn Macro and Design Micro.
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Jiang Zhang, Lei Dong, Yanbo Zhang, Xinyue Chen, Guiqing Yao, Zhangang Han (2020). Investigating time, strength, and duration of measures in controlling the spread of COVID-19 using a networked meta-population model. Nonlinear Dynamics.
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