activity
20202025
most citedSophisticated Inference

1 citations · 1 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

11 papers

q-bio.NC2025

Active inference and artificial reasoning

Karl Friston, Lancelot Da Costa, Alexander Tschantz +4

This technical note considers the sampling of outcomes that provide the greatest amount of information about the structure of underlying world models. This generalisation furnishes…

cs.LG2025

Natural Building Blocks for Structured World Models: Theory, Evidence, and Scaling

Lancelot Da Costa, Sanjeev Namjoshi, Mohammed Abbas Ansari +1

The field of world modeling is fragmented, with researchers developing bespoke architectures that rarely build upon each other. We propose a framework that specifies the natural bu…

cs.LG2025

Bayesian Predictive Coding

Alexander Tschantz, Magnus Koudahl, Hampus Linander +4

Predictive coding (PC) is an influential theory of information processing in the brain, providing a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation. It is motivated in terms…

math-ph2024

Probabilistic Principles for Biophysics and Neuroscience: Entropy Production, Bayesian Mechanics & the Free-Energy Principle

Lancelot Da Costa

This thesis focuses on three fundamental aspects of biological systems; namely, entropy production, Bayesian mechanics, and the free-energy principle. The contributions are threefo…

cs.AI2024

Toward Universal and Interpretable World Models for Open-ended Learning Agents

Lancelot Da Costa

We introduce a generic, compositional and interpretable class of generative world models that supports open-ended learning agents. This is a sparse class of Bayesian networks capab…

cs.AI2024

Possible Principles for Aligned Structure Learning Agents

Lancelot Da Costa, Tomáš Gavenčiak, David Hyland +5

This paper offers a roadmap for the development of scalable aligned artificial intelligence (AI) from first principle descriptions of natural intelligence. In brief, a possible pat…