Active Inference 4th International Workshop, IWAI 2023, Ghent, Belgium, September 13–15, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Active Inference and Robotics.- Contextual Qualitative Deterministic Models for Self-Learning Embodied Agents.- Dynamical Perception-Action Loop Formation with Developmental Embodiment for Hierarchical Active Inference.- Decision-making and Control.- Towards Metacognitive Robot Decision Making for Tool Selection.- Understanding Tool Discovery and Tool Innovation Using Active Inference.- Efficient Motor Learning Through Action-perception Cycles in Deep Kinematic Inference.- Active Inference and Psychology.- Towards Understanding Persons and their Personalities with Cybernetic Big 5 Theory and the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference (FEP-AI) Framework.- On Embedded Normativity - An Active Inference Account of Agency Beyond Flesh.- A Model of Agential Learning Using Active Inference.- From Theory to Implementation.- Designing Explainable Artificial Intelligence with Active Inference: A Framework for Transparent Introspection and Decision-making.- An Analytical Model of Active Inference in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.- Toward Design of Synthetic Active Inference Agents by Mere Mortals.- Learning Representations for Active Inference.- Exploring Action-Centric Representations Through the Lens of Rate-Distortion Theory.- Integrating Cognitive Map Learning and Active Inference for Planning in Ambiguous Environments.- Relative Representations for Cognitive Graphs.- Theory of Learning and Inference.- Active Inference in Hebbian Learning Networks.- Learning One Abstract Bit at a Time Through Self-Invented Experiments Encoded as Neural Networks.- Probabilistic Majorization of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.