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The negative log probability of sensory samples; minimized by free energy.
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- Free Energy Principleassociated_withA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
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- Reinterprets classical reward/value concepts through free energy lens.
- Collapses three quantities into one, emphasizing their equivalence under the principle.
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- Surprise (Surprisal)related_toNegative log probability of an outcome under the generative model; minimized in active inference.
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- KL divergence between prior and posterior beliefs; used in visual salience.
- Core principle: acting to maximize value is equivalent to minimizing surprise by sampling environment to conform to expectations.
- Reorienting in expectation of reinforcements; a cognitive quality in plants.
- Active sampling of novel contingencies to minimize uncertainty; formalized as novelty component of expected free energy
- Prior framework for synergizing reasoning and acting in LLM agents, foundational to agent harness concept
- New term in expected free energy representing information gain about the likelihood mapping; drives ignorance resolution
- Aversive stimuli are defined as surprising, linking punishment to prediction failure.
- Implication A → B holds in a formal context iff every object that has all attributes in A also has all in B.