Local causal states are latent representations that capture organized pattern and structure in complex spatiotemporal systems. We expand their functionality, framing them as spacetime autoencoders.

Melanie Mitchell. Sandia National Laboratories. “Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs.” $600,000 for three years. Andrew Stier. Russell Sage Foundation. “Theory Directed Measurements of Implicit Racial ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding ...

Greetings from the mountains of Santa Fe. In turbulent times for science and society, SFI’s role as “A place removed from the pressure of received ideas” (Murray Gell-Mann) is more important than ever ...

Music is a universal language across time, peoples, and geographies, and also fundamental to our human experience, a result ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain, continues to pass on life in the same form all the way down.

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind, died peacefully May 24, 2019. He ...

In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives ...

The SFI Press releases two updated editions — The Quark & the Jaguar and Strange Beauty — by and about SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann. The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero ...

We are often puzzled by human social phenomena. Why does misinformation sometimes spread so easily while scientific facts have trouble taking hold? Why is it so difficult to cooperate on problems that ...