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AXIOM: Mastering Arcade Games in Minutes with Active Inference and Structure Learning

Author: VERSES

June 24, 2025

Summary

Acting through Active Inference

AXIOM plans with active inference. It rolls out imagined futures under its current world model, scores them by (i) expected reward and (ii) the information they would add to the rMM, then chooses the action sequence with the lowest expected free energy. Early in training, the information-gain term drives curiosity; once the dynamics are nailed down, utility dominates, and the agent settles on high-scoring play….