3 papers
cs.AI2026
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…
cs.MA2026
Anchor-and-Resume Concession Under Dynamic Pricing for LLM-Augmented Freight Negotiation
Hoang Nguyen, Lu Wang, Marta Gaia Bras
Freight brokerages negotiate thousands of carrier rates daily under dynamic pricing conditions where models frequently revise targets mid-conversation. Classical time-dependent con…
stat.ML2025
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…