bertdv0's profile picture. Trying to apply the free energy principle to engineering problems, where 'trying' means: minimizing free energy.

Bert de Vries

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Trying to apply the free energy principle to engineering problems, where 'trying' means: minimizing free energy.

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This is what we ask ourselves in our latest paper (arxiv.org/abs/2508.02197), where we solve Minigrid environments with Active Inference. (Spoiler, it works!) Code available at github.com/biaslab/EFEasV… Done together with @mlmykola , @ThijsvdLaar and @bertdv0


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What's even nicer: because our method injects priors locally, everything still works within @ReactiveBayes ' RxInfer.jl using message passing. Special thanks to my colleagues at @LazyDynamics for making this possible!


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In Active Inference, a lot of time is spent on computing Expected Free Energy. What if we could tweak the generative model such that EFE can be minimised with traditional variational inference methods?


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Backed Trojan Robotics (Team 24090) at the FIRST® Tech Challenge European Premier Event in Eindhoven (July 1–5)  . They hustled—coding, building, troubleshooting—and came away with 3rd in the Think Award. Proud to support their next steps. 🚀 #FTC #Robotics #STEM

LazyDynamics's tweet image. Backed Trojan Robotics (Team 24090) at the FIRST® Tech Challenge European Premier Event in Eindhoven (July 1–5)  . They hustled—coding, building, troubleshooting—and came away with 3rd in the Think Award. Proud to support their next steps. 🚀 #FTC #Robotics #STEM
LazyDynamics's tweet image. Backed Trojan Robotics (Team 24090) at the FIRST® Tech Challenge European Premier Event in Eindhoven (July 1–5)  . They hustled—coding, building, troubleshooting—and came away with 3rd in the Think Award. Proud to support their next steps. 🚀 #FTC #Robotics #STEM
LazyDynamics's tweet image. Backed Trojan Robotics (Team 24090) at the FIRST® Tech Challenge European Premier Event in Eindhoven (July 1–5)  . They hustled—coding, building, troubleshooting—and came away with 3rd in the Think Award. Proud to support their next steps. 🚀 #FTC #Robotics #STEM
LazyDynamics's tweet image. Backed Trojan Robotics (Team 24090) at the FIRST® Tech Challenge European Premier Event in Eindhoven (July 1–5)  . They hustled—coding, building, troubleshooting—and came away with 3rd in the Think Award. Proud to support their next steps. 🚀 #FTC #Robotics #STEM

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That is 🤯

🚀 What do Bayesian inference and skydiving have in common? Both demand trust under uncertainty. Our CTO @bvdmitri used RxInfer to clean up noisy pose estimates from his 500th skydive — showing how probabilistic inference fills the gaps where standard ML fails #Bayes #Skydiving



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Probabilistic modeling in Julia just got smoother. With RxInfer + GraphPPL, you write models like regular code — loops, functions, submodels — and it handles the inference under the hood. From simple regressions to massive hierarchies. Check it out 👇 examples.rxinfer.com

ReactiveBayes's tweet image. Probabilistic modeling in Julia just got smoother. With RxInfer + GraphPPL, you write models like regular code — loops, functions, submodels — and it handles the inference under the hood.

From simple regressions to massive hierarchies.
Check it out 👇 examples.rxinfer.com

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New blog post by @noumenal_labs: “Grounded rewards in the era of experience: A commentary on ‘Welcome to the era of experience’”: noumenal.ai/post/grounded-… Here’s the tl;dr: • This post is a commentary on a new paper by Silver and Sutton, entitled “Welcome to the Era of…


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Bayesian Inference in the browser? Yup. With new RxInfer TypeScript SDK, enabling real-time, client-side probabilistic reasoning. Think: adaptive UIs, privacy-first personalization and more. Interested in bringing Bayesian intelligence to the frontend? Let's talk. #RxInfer #WebAI


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Did you know? 🤔 You can optimize parameters in RxInfer.jl using Optim.jl! Check out our latest example: examples.rxinfer.com/categories/adv… #JuliaLang #RxInfer #MachineLearning #BayesianInference

ReactiveBayes's tweet image. Did you know? 🤔 You can optimize parameters in RxInfer.jl using Optim.jl! Check out our latest example: examples.rxinfer.com/categories/adv… #JuliaLang #RxInfer #MachineLearning #BayesianInference

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