6 papers
Schema-based active inference supports rapid generalization of experience and frontal cortical coding of abstract structure
Toon Van de Maele, Tim Verbelen, Dileep George +1
Schemas -- abstract relational structures that capture the commonalities across experiences -- are thought to underlie humans' and animals' ability to rapidly generalize knowledge,…
Active inference and artificial reasoning
Karl Friston, Lancelot Da Costa, Alexander Tschantz +4
This technical note considers the sampling of outcomes that provide the greatest amount of information about the structure of underlying world models. This generalisation furnishes…
Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting
Toon Van de Maele, Ozan Catal, Alexander Tschantz +2
Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a promising approach for modeling 3D scenes using mixtures of Gaussians. The predominant optimization method for these models relies…
Theory of Mind Using Active Inference: A Framework for Multi-Agent Cooperation
Riddhi J. Pitliya, Ozan Ãatal, Toon Van de Maele +2
Theory of Mind (ToM) -- the ability to understand that others can have differing knowledge and goals -- enables agents to reason about others' beliefs while planning their own acti…
Mobile Manipulation with Active Inference for Long-Horizon Rearrangement Tasks
Corrado Pezzato, Ozan Ãatal, Toon Van de Maele +2
Despite growing interest in active inference for robotic control, its application to complex, long-horizon tasks remains untested. We address this gap by introducing a fully hierar…
AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models
Conor Heins, Toon Van de Maele, Alexander Tschantz +11
Current deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains, but struggle with data efficiency compared to human learning, which le…