Geometry of Friston's active inference

2018/11/20 by Martin Biehl, Biehl, Martin
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.08241

6 pages, 3 figures, Extended abstract accepted as a poster at AABI2018, 1st Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, 2018

arxiv created 2018/11/20 · openalex publication_date 2018/11/20 · arxiv updated 2018/11/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We reconstruct Karl Friston's active inference and give a geometrical interpretation of it.

Citations

• Active Inference: A Process Theory
• Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians

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