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concept:policy-selection

Policy Selection

Choosing sequences of actions based on expected free energy; prior probability of policy is softmax of expected free energy

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Concepts (2)

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  • Policy
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    Sequence of actions considered by the agent; basis for planning.
  • Predictions formed by averaging over policy-specific beliefs, weighted by policy probabilities.

Related by similarity (8)

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  • Selecting policies using a softmax (normalized exponential) function of negative expected free energy.
  • model selectionconcept0.779
    Comparing models using log-evidence approximated by free energy.
  • Action Selectionconcept0.778
    Choice of policies minimizing expected free energy to realize preferred future states.
  • Selectivitymethod0.764
    Adapted control task metric measuring difference between odds-ratio on original task and arbitrary-label control task
  • RL algorithm used for training models to comply with the conflicting objective
  • In active inference, a policy is a sequence of actions through time, as opposed to state-action mappings in RL.
  • Choosing among candidate models based on model evidence.
  • Points to the meta-cognitive challenge of choosing goal expansion vs. dissolution.