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New AI framework extends intrinsic motivation principles for agents

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Researchers have introduced a belief-based extension to the Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP), a framework for intrinsic motivation in agents. This new formulation allows MOP to operate in partially observable environments by incorporating belief inference over hidden states. The work also presents a Bellman reformulation of Expected Free Energy for Active Inference, enabling offline computation through value iteration. Experiments show MOP agents balancing goal-directed food seeking with exploration, while Active Inference agents focus on regions with high pragmatic and epistemic value. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Manolis Mylonas, Rub\'en Moreno Bote ·

    Belief-Based Maximum Occupancy Principle and Active Inference

    arXiv:2609.39342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrinsic motivation plays a central role in adaptive and goal-directed behavior by conferring agents reward-independent objectives and biases useful to act in noisy and uncertain environments. Active Inference addresses the probl…

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