arXiv:2608. 00492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predictive coding offers a powerful theory of cortical computation, but corresponding scalable algorithmic implementations for artificial intelligence have remained elusive.
arXiv:2608. 00503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predictive coding offers a powerful framework for cortical computation, yet scalable implementations that respect both Bayesian exactness and neurobiological constraints remain scarce.
arXiv:2606. 25197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning effective policies for adaptive data acquisition remains challenging: posterior-based methods rely on surrogate models and posterior approximations that can be misspecified or biased, while direct policy-learning methods map from historical observations and fail to exploit available model representations, making learning harder.
arXiv:2601. 07944v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Since the turn of the century, approximate Bayesian inference has steadily evolved as new computational techniques have been incorporated to handle increasingly complex, large-scale predictive problems.
The article explores how biological learning and decision-making, often modeled as Bayesian processes, can be replicated in computing systems by leveraging noisy neural and synaptic dynamics for stochastic sampling. It proposes a biologically grounded framework where internal energy functions capture uncertainty over latent states and model parameters, enabling predictive coding networks to perform Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. By drawing parallels between intrinsic biological noise and electrical noise in emerging probabilistic analogue memory technologies, the authors argue that analogue in‑memory computing hardware offers a massively scalable and energy‑efficient solution for probabilistic inference.
arXiv:2606. 08374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We recast predictive coding as continuous-time proximal gradient descent applied to a regularized maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) objective.
arXiv:2606. 20538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian predictive inference provides a principled framework for uncertainty quantification, data efficiency, and robust generalization.
Active inference offers a unified framework for perception, learning, and action, but scaling discrete active-inference models to rich spatial and temporal domains remains difficult. Renormalising generative models (RGMs) address this challenge by composing discrete generative models across spatial and temporal scales, coarse-graining lower-level states and paths into higher-level causes for objects, events, and action.
arXiv:2608. 09512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active inference offers a unified framework for perception, learning, and action, but scaling discrete active-inference models to rich spatial and temporal domains remains difficult.
The paper introduces prequential posteriors, a Bayesian approach that uses a predictive‑sequential loss function to update deep generative forecasting models (DGFMs) when new data arrive. By adopting a consistency notion suitable for model misspecification, the authors prove that both the loss minimizer and the posterior concentrate on parameters with optimal predictive performance. Scalable inference is achieved with parallelisable waste‑free sequential Monte Carlo samplers that employ preconditioned gradient kernels, and the method is validated on synthetic and real meteorological time‑series data.
arXiv:2609.39525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Casting Bayesian inference as a neural network optimization problem targeting an amortized posterior is attractive, as it extends to otherwise intracta...
arXiv:2607. 19518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sophisticated Inference is a variant of active inference often associated with recursive belief modeling and tree search.
arXiv:2511. 04666v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A fundamental challenge in developing general learning algorithms is their tendency to forget past knowledge as they adapt to new data.