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VERSES Active Inference Research
VERSES Digital Brain using Active Inference Outperforms on Arcade Challenge
Press: AXIOM Digital Brain Beats Google DeepMind Dreamer V3 at “Gameworld 10k” Atari Challenge
Blog: White Paper: Mastering Gameworld 10K in Minutes with the AXIOM Digital Brain
Paper: AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models
3rd Party Validation: Soothsayer VERSES AXIOM Technical Validation Report
VERSES Multi-agent Robotics Outperform on Meta’s Habitat Benchmark without Pre-training
Press: VERSES® Unveils Robotics Architecture that Works Without Pre-Training
Paper: Mobile Manipulation with Active Inference for Long-Horizon Rearrangement Tasks
Blog: Real World Intelligence: These Are the Droids You’re Looking For
Blog: Why Learn if You Can Infer: Active Inference for Robot Planning & Control
Gaussian Splats and Continual Learning with Active Inference
Blog: Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting: A Bayesian Approach for Continual 3D Learning
Paper: Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting
Renormalising Generative Models with Active Inference
Press: VERSES Publishes Pioneering Research on Foundation for Next-Gen AI
Paper: From pixels to planning: scale-free active inference
Additional Active Inference Research by VERSES
Benchmarking Predictive Coding Networks – Made Simple (Accepted at ICLR 2025; Author: Tommaso Salvatori; this paper was presented as a Spotlight at ICLR, which is reserved for the top 5% of the papers)
Self-Supervised Learning Encodes Uncertainty (Accepted at ICLR 2025 Workshop; Authors: Miguel De Llanza Varona, Ryan Singh, Christopher Buckley)
Uncertainty quantification in fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA ensembles (Accepted at ICLR 2025; Author: Hampus Linander)
Training Deep Predictive Coding Networks (Accepted at Associative Memory Workshop; Author: Tommaso Salvatori)
FOCUS: object-centric world models for robotic manipulation (Published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics; Author: Tim Verbelen)
How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience (Published in Neuroscience of Consciousness; Author: Mahault Albarracin, Karl Friston, Alex Kiefer)
Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem (Published in Neuroscience of Consciousness; Author: Mahault Albarracin
The Physics and Metaphysics of Social Powers: Bridging Cognitive Processing and Social Dynamics, a New Perspective on Power through Active Inference (Preprint; Author: Mahault Albarracin
Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability (Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities; Authors: Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Marco Perin, Hari Thiruvengada, Karl Friston)
Active Inference Books
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2016)
