Expected Free Energy-based Planning as Variational Inference
Planning under uncertainty requires agents to balance goal achievement with information gathering. Active inference addresses this through the Expected Free Energy (EFE), a cost function that unifies instrumental and epistemic objectives. However, existing EFE-based methods typically employ specialized optimization procedures that are difficult to extend or analyze. In this paper, we show that EFE-based planning can be formulated as Variational Free Energy minimization on a generative model augm
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Published: 9 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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