Cognitive fatigue from schema rigidity and entropy externalization: a free energy principle perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCognitive fatigue is typically described as a psychobiological state that arises from intensive and/or prolonged cognitive performance and is experienced as a subjective feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy.
Souhir Ezzedini
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A free-energy principle for representation learning [PDF]
Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2021 Abstract This paper employs a formal connection of machine learning with thermodynamics to characterize the quality of learned representations for transfer learning. We discuss how information-theoretic functionals such as rate, distortion and classification loss of a model lie on a convex, so-called, equilibrium surface.
Yansong Gao, Pratik Chaudhari
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Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle [PDF]
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 Casper Hesp +2 more
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A free energy principle for the brain [PDF]
Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2006 By formulating Helmholtz's ideas about perception, in terms of modern-day theories, one arrives at a model of perceptual inference and learning that can explain a remarkable range of neurobiological facts: using constructs from statistical physics, the problems of inferring the causes of sensory input and learning the causal structure of their ...
Karl, Friston +2 more
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Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 This theoretical paper explores the affect-logic approach to schizophrenia in light of the general complexity theories of cognition: embodied cognition, Haken’s synergetics, and Friston’s free energy principle.
Ciompi L, Tschacher W.
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Application of the Free Energy Principle to Estimation and Control [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 Based on a generative model (GM) and beliefs over hidden states, the free energy principle (FEP) enables an agent to sense and act by minimizing a free energy bound on Bayesian surprise. Inclusion of prior beliefs in the GM about desired states leads to active inference (ActInf).
Thijs van de Laar +2 more
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How particular is the physics of the free energy principle? [PDF]
Phys Life Rev, 2022 The free energy principle (FEP) states that any dynamical system can be interpreted as performing Bayesian inference upon its surrounding environment. In this work, we examine in depth the assumptions required to derive the FEP in the simplest possible set of systems -- weakly-coupled non-equilibrium linear stochastic systems. Specifically, we explore (
Aguilera M +3 more
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The free energy principle induces neuromorphic development
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2022 Abstract We show how any finite physical system with morphological, i.e. three-dimensional embedding or shape, degrees of freedom and locally limited free energy will, under the constraints of the free energy principle, evolve over time towards a neuromorphic morphology that supports hierarchical computations in which each ‘level’ of the
Chris Fields 0001 +4 more
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The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018 Thomas Parr +2 more
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Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Free Energy Principle in Biology [PDF]
, 2021 According to the free energy principle, life is an “inevitable and emergent property of any (ergodic) random dynamical system at non-equilibrium steady state that possesses a Markov blanket” (Friston 2013).
Palacios, Patricia, Colombo, Matteo
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