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09/04/2022
Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency
Under what circumstances can a system be said to have beliefs and goals,...
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12/27/2021
Interpreting Dynamical Systems as Bayesian Reasoners
A central concept in active inference is that the internal states of a p...
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07/14/2021
Experimental Evidence that Empowerment May Drive Exploration in Sparse-Reward Environments
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is known to be often unsuccessful in environ...
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10/05/2020
Non-trivial informational closure of a Bayesian hyperparameter
We investigate the non-trivial informational closure (NTIC) of a Bayesia...
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08/28/2020
Causal blankets: Theory and algorithmic framework
We introduce a novel framework to identify perception-action loops (PALO...
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11/20/2018
Geometry of Friston's active inference
We reconstruct Karl Friston's active inference and give a geometrical in...
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06/21/2018
Expanding the Active Inference Landscape: More Intrinsic Motivations in the Perception-Action Loop
Active inference is an ambitious theory that treats perception, inferenc...
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06/01/2018
Being curious about the answers to questions: novelty search with learned attention
We investigate the use of attentional neural network layers in order to ...
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08/15/2017
Learning body-affordances to simplify action spaces
Controlling embodied agents with many actuated degrees of freedom is a c...
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06/12/2017
Action and perception for spatiotemporal patterns
This is a contribution to the formalization of the concept of agents in ...
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04/10/2017
Formal approaches to a definition of agents
This thesis contributes to the formalisation of the notion of an agent w...
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09/01/2016