arXiv AI
Jul 23
Sophisticated Policies from Epistemic Priors
arXiv:2607. 19518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sophisticated Inference is a variant of active inference often associated with recursive belief modeling and tree search.
What Type of Inference is Active Inference?
arXiv:2606. 04935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active inference casts decision-making as inference, with the Expected Free Energy (EFE) unifying goal-directed and information-seeking behavior.
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arXiv AI
Jul 23
Active Inference as a Convex Markov Decision Process
arXiv:2607. 20152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active Inference (AIF) frames adaptive behavior as the minimization of expected free energy (EFE), combining epistemic and pragmatic objectives within a single variational principle.
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago
Expected Free Energy-based Informative Path Planning for Robotic Mars Exploration
arXiv:2608. 14466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An autonomous robot efficiently exploring an unknown environment, such as looking for water sources on Mars, faces two simultaneous demands: building an accurate information map while quickly finding the regions of greatest value, and paying for every meter of travel and the cost of every measurement it takes.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
FF-JEPA: Long-Horizon Planning in World Models with Latent Planners
arXiv:2606. 09311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have shown promising world modeling capabilities, enabling planning in latent space by optimizing action trajectories using methods like the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM).
arXiv AI
Jul 16
The SIGReg Objective as Variational Free Energy: A Theoretical Active-Inference Account of JEPA World Models
arXiv:2607. 13612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) are the dominant design for latent world models, yet they are usually justified by empirical performance rather than a normative principle.
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago
MDP Planning as Policy Inference
arXiv:2602. 17375v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We formulate episodic Markov decision process (MDP) planning as Bayesian inference over policies.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
What Capable Agents Must Know: Selection Theorems for Robust Decision-Making under Uncertainty
arXiv:2603. 02491v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As artificial agents become increasingly capable, what internal structure is necessary for an agent to act competently under uncertainty?
arXiv AI
Jul 7
ASK in the Dark: Uncertainty-Gated LLM Assistance under Partial Observability
arXiv:2607. 02686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning agents operating under partial observability must act on incomplete information, making them natural candidates for guidance from small language models (SLMs) that carry broad reasoning priors.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
Expected Free Energy as Belief-Dependent Utility for rho-POMDPs
arXiv:2607. 16981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent acting under partial observability must decide when to gather information and which observations are worth their cost.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8
Latent Geometry Beyond Search: Amortizing Planning in World Models
arXiv:2605. 08732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Sampling Decisions: Exact Path-Space Control for Physics-Informed Generative Sampling
arXiv:2503. 14549v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific generative models must turn tractable local decisions into globally correlated samples that respect physical constraints.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
SAGE: Subgoal-Conditioned Action Generation for Latent World Model Planning
arXiv:2607. 17973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models have emerged as a powerful planning paradigm by learning action-conditioned predictive dynamics and using them as internal simulators to imagine and evaluate candidate action sequences.