AI IntelligenceAug 23, 2026AI Intelligence
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Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents
A new arXiv paper models how interactive AI agents decide what context to gather as active inference. The approach balances token costs of clarifying questions and retrieval against default assumptions by updating beliefs about the task state before choosing the next action.
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Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents: A new arXiv paper models how interactive AI agents decide what context to gather as active inference. The approach balances token costs of clarifying questions and retrieval against default assumptions by updating beliefs about the task state before choosing the next action.