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concept:error-minimization

Error minimization

The progressive reduction of error (stress) as cells move toward their target positions.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

  • The drive to reduce expected ambiguity about outcomes given states, leading to seeking well-lit, informative environments.
  • Core principle: acting to maximize value is equivalent to minimizing surprise by sampling environment to conform to expectations.
  • The principle that agents must minimise prediction error (surprisal) to persist.
  • The core imperative under the Free Energy Principle; systems must reduce the difference between predicted and actual sensory states.
  • Minimizing expected free energy for planning, decision-making, and action selection.
  • Minimizing variational free energy for perceptual inference and learning of model parameters.
  • Geometrical or functional failures where a decision does not fit harmoniously with the whole; each decision point in a fabricated object is likely a mistake.