ArticleBiological cybernetics2018
Planning and navigation as active inference.
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- Exploration-exploitation model of moth-inspired olfactory navigation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
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- Naturalistic reinforcement learning.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
- Spatial and Temporal Hierarchy for Autonomous Navigation Using Active Inference in Minigrid Environment.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
This paper introduces an active inference formulation of planning and navigation. It illustrates how the exploitation-exploration dilemma is dissolved by acting to minimise uncertainty (i.e. expected surprise or free energy). We use simulations of a maze problem to illustrate how agents can solve quite complicated problems using context sensitive prior preferences to form subgoals. Our focus is on how epistemic behaviour-driven by novelty and the imperative to reduce uncertainty about the world-contextualises pragmatic or goal-directed behaviour. Using simulations, we illustrate the underlying process theory with synthetic behavioural and electrophysiological responses during exploration of a maze and subsequent navigation to a target location. An interesting phenomenon that emerged from the simulations was a putative distinction between 'place cells'-that fire when a subgoal is reached-and 'path cells'-that fire until a subgoal is reached.
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