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Natural exploration-exploitation trade-offs emerge automatically from expected free energy minimization without hyperparameter tuning.

Active inference achieves Bayes-optimal arbitration between exploration and exploitation without handcrafted mechanisms like ε-greedy.

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Active inference: demystified and compared

(2021) · Noor Sajid · Philip J. Ball · Thomas Parr · Karl J. Friston

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Active inference & agent ecology
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Free energy minimization, Markov blankets, trust gradients, and multi-agent rhythm/deferral frameworks
Active inference & free energy minimization
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Friston's framework unifying perception, action, and learning under variational free energy minimization.
Active inference and free energy minimization
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Agents balance perception and action through variational free energy, with exploration-exploitation trade-offs emerging from expected free energy decomposition into risk and ambiguity terms.

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Active Inference
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Foundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
Reinforcement Learning
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Alternative framework for agent behavior; based on reward maximization rather than free energy minimization.

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Load-bearing definition of how action and perception implement free energy minimization.
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Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
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