Belief sharing: a blessing or a curse
Artificial Intelligence
2024-07-03 v1
Abstract
When collaborating with multiple parties, communicating relevant information is of utmost importance to efficiently completing the tasks at hand. Under active inference, communication can be cast as sharing beliefs between free-energy minimizing agents, where one agent's beliefs get transformed into an observation modality for the other. However, the best approach for transforming beliefs into observations remains an open question. In this paper, we demonstrate that naively sharing posterior beliefs can give rise to the negative social dynamics of echo chambers and self-doubt. We propose an alternate belief sharing strategy which mitigates these issues.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.02465,
title = {Belief sharing: a blessing or a curse},
author = {Ozan Catal and Toon Van de Maele and Riddhi J. Pitliya and Mahault Albarracin and Candice Pattisapu and Tim Verbelen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02465},
year = {2024}
}