Collective Intelligence Reading List
Curated by Mouhssine Rifaki | Stanford Electrical Engineering | Last updated August 2026
From swarm robotics to human crowds, collective intelligence studies how groups outperform individuals. This list spans foundations, swarm coordination, and recent AI swarms.
Collective Intelligence: 10 key papers
- Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments
Ha and Tang. arXiv 2021.
- Neural Cellular Automata Manifold
Ruiz et al. arXiv 2020.
- Growing Neural Cellular Automata
Mordvintsev et al. Distill 2020.
- Self-Organising Textures
Niklasson et al. Distill 2021.
- The Sensory Neuron as a Transformer: Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
Tang and Ha. arXiv 2021.
- Emergent Social Learning via Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Ndousse et al. arXiv 2020.
- Scalable Evaluation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Melting Pot
Leibo et al. arXiv 2021.
- Open-Endedness is Essential for Artificial Superhuman Intelligence
Hughes et al. arXiv 2024.
- Learning to Control Self-Assembling Morphologies: A Study of Generalization via Modularity
Pathak et al. arXiv 2019.
- Collective behavior from surprise minimization
Heins et al. arXiv 2023.
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