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stat.ML2025
Expected Free Energy-based Planning as Variational Inference
Bert de Vries, Wouter Nuijten, Thijs van de Laar +13
We address the problem of planning under uncertainty, where an agent must choose actions that not only achieve desired outcomes but also reduce uncertainty. Traditional methods oft…
stat.ML2024
Realising Synthetic Active Inference Agents, Part II: Variational Message Updates
Thijs van de Laar, Magnus Koudahl, Bert de Vries
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) describes (biological) agents as minimising a variational Free Energy (FE) with respect to a generative model of their environment. Active Inference…