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Two Routes to Interoceptive Prioritisation: Dissociating Likelihood Precision and Preference Reweighting in Active Inference
St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra +6
An embodied agent must prioritise among competing bodily needs. In active inference, it can respond to an urgent need by increasing the precision of information about that need or…
Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study
Mark Solms, St John Grimbly, Bruce Bassett +7
Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing sub…
Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent
St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra +7
Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others. Any fixed-budget system…
Selective Reincarnation: Offline-to-Online Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Claude Formanek, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Jonathan Shock +2
'Reincarnation' in reinforcement learning has been proposed as a formalisation of reusing prior computation from past experiments when training an agent in an environment. In this…