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…
Composing Non-Conjugate Factor Graphs with Closed-Form Variational Inference
Mykola Lukashchuk, Kyrylo Yemets, Wouter M. Kouw +4
Stacking probabilistic building blocks into deeper architectures typically breaks closed-form inference. We show that closed-form inference can be preserved. We identify five facto…
Gaussian Variational Inference with Non-Gaussian Factors for State Estimation: A UWB Localization Case Study
Andrew Stirling, Mykola Lukashchuk, Dmitry Bagaev +2
This letter extends the exactly sparse Gaussian variational inference (ESGVI) algorithm for state estimation in two complementary directions. First, ESGVI is generalized to operate…
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…