Introducing: The Deep Active Inference Agent

Edit (09/07/17): Sorry for the long quiet interval. It was (partly) due to the fact that I took some time to refine some the code and the arguments in this and the previous post and put it into a paper, of which there is a preprint available as of today: http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02341 🙂 In the last […]

The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference

Hello World! I wanted to start the Blog with something that has been on my mind since the great Computational Psychiatry Course 2016. Some of the talks there revolved around the free energy/active inference framework in cognitive neuroscience. Although “free energy” does sound a little esoteric at first, the name derives from the thermodynamic free […]