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Learning

Inference of parameters encoding contingencies of the world (e.g., likelihood matrix A) at slower timescale than perception.

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  • Early learning
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    The primary domain in which Nicholson's Theory of Loose Parts became influential and known.
  • How well an RL agent learns, measured by reward curves and associated with causal emergence levels.
  • Acquisition of new concepts by Bayesian model expansion and reduction.
  • Learning Rate
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    Hyperparameter for optimizing model parameters through learning in active inference.
  • Generative Model
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    Agent's internal probabilistic model of environment; enables belief inference about hidden states given outcomes.

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    Field of research integrating reward learning and optimization; shown to be unified with perceptual learning via free energy principle.
  • Process of inferring causes of sensory information; unified with value learning as integral aspects of free energy minimization.
  • Habit Learningconcept0.845
    Learning through Bayesian model averaging over policies, leading to habitual behavior.
  • Epistemic Learningconcept0.840
    Learning model parameters through curious, uncertainty-reducing behavior; reducing ignorance about contingencies
  • Physical learningframework0.840
    Framework for solving inverse problems in which physical systems autonomously adapt their parameters in response to stimuli through local learning rules, without requiring computational design or explicit cost functions
  • Q-learningmethod0.839
    Model-free RL algorithm used in experimental comparison; employs ε-greedy exploration.
  • Sentience criterion; capacity occurs even in gene regulatory networks and non-neural morphogenetic agents.
  • Learning paradigm that jointly learns multiple related tasks using a single model