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Théophile Champion¹, Marek Grześ², Howard Bowman^3,4

¹University of Kent, School of Computing, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, U.K. TMAC3@KENT.AC.UK.

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Branching time active inference, a planning framework, now uses Bayesian filtering for faster latent variable inference. This method achieves a forty times speedup compared to previous variational message passing techniques.

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Area of Science:

Computational Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning

Background:

Branching time active inference frames planning as Bayesian model expansion.
Integrates concepts from active inference (brain modeling) and Monte Carlo tree search (reinforcement learning).
Previous inference relied on iterative variational message passing.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Bayesian filtering as a more efficient inference method for branching time active inference.
To improve computational efficiency in planning algorithms.

Main Methods:

Implemented Bayesian filtering, alternating between evidence integration and state prediction.
Replaced iterative variational message passing with a non-iterative Bayesian filtering approach.

Main Results:

Achieved a forty times speedup in inference compared to the state-of-the-art.
Demonstrated the efficiency of Bayesian filtering for latent variable inference in this framework.

Conclusions:

Bayesian filtering offers a significant computational advantage for branching time active inference.
This advancement can accelerate applications in brain modeling and reinforcement learning.