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Why Learn if You Can Infer: Active Inference for Robot Planning & Control
Author: VERSES
August 14, 2025
Summary
What if, instead of learning policies directly, we equipped agents to infer the hidden causes of their observations—and to generate actions by reasoning about those inferred states? This is the central idea behind active inference: rather than passively learning behavior from vast amounts of experience, agents use a generative model of the world to make sense of sensory inputs and select actions that reduce uncertainty or fulfill internal goals….