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)