4 papers
Expected Free Energy-based Planning as Variational Inference
Wouter W. L. Nuijten, Thijs van de Laar, Bert de Vries
Planning under uncertainty requires agents to balance goal achievement with information gathering. Active inference addresses this through the Expected Free Energy (EFE), a cost fu…
Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity for Bernoulli Message Passing
Sepideh Adamiat, Wouter M. Kouw, Bert de Vries
Bayesian inference provides a principled framework for understanding brain function, while neural activity in the brain is inherently spike-based. This paper bridges these two pers…
A Spiking Neural Network Implementation of Gaussian Belief Propagation
Sepideh Adamiat, Wouter M. Kouw, Bert de Vries
Bayesian inference offers a principled account of information processing in natural agents. However, it remains an open question how neural mechanisms perform their abstract operat…
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…