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Active Inference is a Subtype of Variational Inference

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Main Authors:	Nuijten, Wouter W. L., Lukashchuk, Mykola
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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