[HTML][HTML] The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple

K Friston, L Da Costa, N Sajid, C Heins, K Ueltzhöffer… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides a concise description of the free energy principle, starting from a
formulation of random dynamical systems in terms of a Langevin equation and ending with a …

World models and predictive coding for cognitive and developmental robotics: Frontiers and challenges

T Taniguchi, S Murata, M Suzuki, D Ognibene… - Advanced …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Creating autonomous robots that can actively explore the environment, acquire knowledge
and learn skills continuously is the ultimate achievement envisioned in cognitive and …

[图书][B] Active inference: the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior

T Parr, G Pezzulo, KJ Friston - 2022 - books.google.com
The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain,
cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of …

Active inference in robotics and artificial agents: Survey and challenges

P Lanillos, C Meo, C Pezzato, AA Meera… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Active inference is a mathematical framework which originated in computational
neuroscience as a theory of how the brain implements action, perception and learning …

The free energy principle for perception and action: A deep learning perspective

P Mazzaglia, T Verbelen, O Catal, B Dhoedt - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The free energy principle, and its corollary active inference, constitute a bio-inspired theory
that assumes biological agents act to remain in a restricted set of preferred states of the …

On the relationship between active inference and control as inference

B Millidge, A Tschantz, AK Seth, CL Buckley - Active Inference: First …, 2020 - Springer
Active Inference (AIF) is an emerging framework in the brain sciences which suggests that
biological agents act to minimise a variational bound on model evidence. Control-as …

pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces

C Heins, B Millidge, D Demekas, B Klein… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Active inference is an account of cognition and behavior in complex systems which brings
together action, perception, and learning under the theoretical mantle of Bayesian inference …

Application and planning of an energy-oriented stochastic disassembly line balancing problem

X Zhang, H Zhou, C Fu, M Mi, C Zhan, DT Pham… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract End-of-life (EOL) products are getting more and more attention as a result of the
rapid decline in environmental resources and the dramatic rise in population at the moment …

How active inference could help revolutionise robotics

L Da Costa, P Lanillos, N Sajid, K Friston, S Khan - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in neuroscience have characterised brain function using mathematical
formalisms and first principles that may be usefully applied elsewhere. In this paper, we …

[HTML][HTML] On efficient computation in active inference

A Paul, N Sajid, L Da Costa, A Razi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological agents demonstrate a remarkable proficiency in calibrating appropriate scales of
planning and evaluation when interacting with their environments. It follows logically that …