arXiv:2610.18617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An embodied agent must prioritise among competing bodily needs. In active inference, it can respond to an urgent need by increasing the precision of in...
By St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra, Charel van Hoof, Rowan Hodson, Benjamin Rosman, Ryan Smith, Mark Solms, Jonathan P. Shock
arXiv:2608. 04232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others.
By St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra, Bruce A. Bassett, Charel van Hoof, Rowan Hodson, Benjamin Rosman, Ryan Smith, Mark Solms, Jonathan P. Shock
arXiv:2609.39342v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Intrinsic motivation plays a central role in adaptive and goal-directed behavior by conferring agents reward-independent objectives and biases useful...
By Manolis Mylonas, Rub\'en Moreno Bote
Intrinsic motivation plays a central role in adaptive and goal-directed behavior by conferring agents reward-independent objectives and biases useful to act in noisy and uncertain environments. Active...
The paper introduces Risk‑Sensitive Satisficing (RS), a bandit learning rule that evaluates actions based on their past frequency and their surplus or shortfall relative to an aspiration level. RS can be reformulated as Attention Competitive Bayes (ACB), a Bayesian‑like estimator where the aspiration level serves as a prior mean and the limited number of trials limits how strongly evidence can override this prior. ACB predicts that unchosen actions gradually revert toward the aspiration level (pseudo‑forgetting) and that when the aspiration is unattainable, exploration never fully settles, reducing regret in simulations.
By Moto Shinriki, Yu Kono, Tatsuji Takahashi
EmbodiedCLBench is the first benchmark designed to evaluate continual learning in embodied simulation environments, focusing on self‑evolving agents. The benchmark uses compositional generalization to test whether agents can learn basic tasks and then recombine those skills to solve more complex, unseen tasks. Experiments across various agent harnesses and learning methods reveal that while basic task experience improves performance on advanced tasks, this benefit does not scale with more learning samples and current agents fail to extract additional useful information.
By Jie Huang, Yanan Chen, Ruixun Liu, Kaichen He, Xinyi He, Rui Huang, Zilong Zheng, Zhenliang Zhang, Yiwu Zhong