Smarter by Nature.
Biomimicry is the conscious emulation of life's genius.
Janine Benyus
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 (Presented at ICLR 2025)
Self-Supervised Learning Encodes Uncertainty (Accepted at ICLR 2025 Workshop)
Uncertainty quantification in fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA ensembles (Accepted at ICLR 2025)
Training Deep Predictive Coding Networks (Accepted at Associative Memory Workshop)
FOCUS: object-centric world models for robotic manipulation (Published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics)
How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience (Published in Neuroscience of Consciousness)
Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem (Published in Neuroscience of Consciousness)
Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability (Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities)
Active Inference Books
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2016)