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Expected Free Energy as Belief-Dependent Utility for rho-POMDPs
Patrick Cooper, Alvaro Velasquez
An agent acting under partial observability must decide when to gather information and which observations are worth their cost. Standard POMDPs value information only through its e…
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Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Patrick Cooper, Alvaro Velasquez
Standard chain-of-thought on moral dilemmas exhibits two failure modes: stakeholder collapse (the trace names at most one party with a stake in the outcome) and uncertainty suppres…
cs.AI2026
DeFAb: A Dataset for Grounded Scientific Discovery through Defeasible Abduction
Patrick Cooper, Alvaro Velasquez, Avyay Sadhu
A theory can accommodate a counterexample by adding an exception. The harder problem is deciding how far the exception should extend and which predictions should survive. We presen…