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Exploring Action-Centric Representations Through the Lens of Rate-Distortion Theory
Miguel de Llanza Varona, Christopher L. Buckley, Beren Millidge
Organisms have to keep track of the information in the environment that is relevant for adaptive behaviour. Transmitting information in an economical and efficient way becomes cruc…
A Mathematical Walkthrough and Discussion of the Free Energy Principle
Beren Millidge, Anil Seth, Christopher L Buckley
The Free-Energy-Principle (FEP) is an influential and controversial theory which postulates a deep and powerful connection between the stochastic thermodynamics of self-organizatio…
Habitual and Reflective Control in Hierarchical Predictive Coding
Paul F. Kinghorn, Beren Millidge, Christopher L. Buckley
In cognitive science, behaviour is often separated into two types. Reflexive control is habitual and immediate, whereas reflective is deliberative and time consuming. We examine th…
Applications of the Free Energy Principle to Machine Learning and Neuroscience
Beren Millidge
In this PhD thesis, we explore and apply methods inspired by the free energy principle to two important areas in machine learning and neuroscience. The free energy principle is a g…
Towards a Mathematical Theory of Abstraction
Beren Millidge
While the utility of well-chosen abstractions for understanding and predicting the behaviour of complex systems is well appreciated, precisely what an abstraction has…
Investigating the Scalability and Biological Plausibility of the Activation Relaxation Algorithm
Beren Millidge, Alexander Tschantz, Anil Seth +1
The recently proposed Activation Relaxation (AR) algorithm provides a simple and robust approach for approximating the backpropagation of error algorithm using only local learning…