Network-based Active Inference for Adaptive and Cost-efficient Real-World Applications: A Benchmark Study of a Valve-turning Task Against Deep Reinforcement Learning | OpenReview
Harneet Singh, Jeong hwan Yoon, Pedro Fontana, Katherine Hanson, Whitney Sales, Varun Kamat, Karl Friston
This paper introduces Network-based Active Inference (NetAIF), a novel approach that integrates Active Inference (AIF) principles with network dynamics to enable adaptive, cost-efficient real-world applications. In benchmark tests against Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), NetAIF outperforms DRL in both computational efficiency and task performance. Leveraging random attractor dynamics, NetAIF generates real-time trajectories, allowing robots to adapt to complex, dynamic environments without the need for extensive pre-training. We demonstrate NetAIF's superiority in industrial valve manipulation, achieving over 99\% accuracy in goal position and orientation in untrained dynamic environments, with a 45,000-fold reduction in computational costs. NetAIF is approximately 100,000 times more efficient in iteration count than DRL, making it a highly robust and efficient solution for industrial applications.
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