4 papers
Prior preferences in active inference agents: soft, hard, and goal shaping
Filippo Torresan, Ryota Kanai, Manuel Baltieri
Active inference proposes expected free energy as an objective for planning and decision-making to adequately balance exploitative and explorative drives in learning agents. The ex…
A coalgebraic perspective on predictive processing
Manuel Baltieri, Filippo Torresan, Tomoya Nakai
Predictive processing and active inference posit that the brain is a system performing Bayesian inference on the environment. By virtue of this, a prominent interpretation of predi…
A "good regulator theorem" for embodied agents
Nathaniel Virgo, Martin Biehl, Manuel Baltieri +1
In a classic paper, Conant and Ashby claimed that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system." Artificial Life has produced many examples of systems that perf…
Active inference for action-unaware agents
Filippo Torresan, Keisuke Suzuki, Ryota Kanai +1
Active inference is a formal approach to study cognition based on the notion that adaptive agents can be seen as engaging in a process of approximate Bayesian inference, via the mi…