Mark Tensen

First and corresponding author of "Microcosmos: Reimagining Artificial Life for the GPU Era" (arXiv:2607.02954, submitted 3 Jul 2026, accepted at ALIFE 2026), affiliated with the Artificial Life Institute.

Matters to this vault as the lead author of the single paper this vault's Microcosmos cluster is built around — the linear-scaling design claim, the four validating experiments, and this session's correction on the chemotaxis experiment's mechanism all trace back to his paper.

References

• claim-microcosmos-elastic-filaments-differentiable-gpu-fluid
• claim-microcosmos-linear-scaling-avoids-quadratic-gpu-populations
• claim-microcosmos-four-experiments-handdesigned-to-emergent
• claim-microcosmos-chemotaxis-is-fitness-rewarded-not-emergent
• Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-microcosmos-gpu-alife, 2026-08-20-do-microcosmoss-scaling-benchmark-linear-to-500k-particles