What Type of Inference is Active Inference?

arXiv:2606.04935 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-03

Updated: 2026-07-07

Journal ref: Proc. of the 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2026), PMLR 337:5003-5039

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Expected Free Energy — 1× in this paper
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Variational Free Energy — 1× in this paper

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