We are delighted to announce the *2nd International Workshop on Active Inference IWAI2021*, in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD 2021) that will be held *VIRTUALLY* in September 2021 in Bilbao, Spain.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The 2nd International Workshop on Active Inference wants to bring together researchers on active inference as well as related research fields in order to discuss current trends, novel results, (real-world) applications, to what extent active inference can be used in modern machine learning settings, such as deep learning, and how it can be unified with the latest psychological and neurological insights.

Website: https://iwaiworkshop.github.io/

Twitter: @iwai_ws

*Important dates*

Workshop Date: September 13th or 17th, 2021 to be decided with the ECML conference

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 9th, 2021

Paper Submission Deadline: June 23rd, 2021

Acceptance Notification: July 28th, 2021

*Topics of interest*

Papers on all subjects and applications of active inference and related research areas are welcome.

- Active inference

- (Bayesian) surprise

- Cognitive robotics

- Control as inference

- Variational inference

- Computational neuroscience

- (Deep) generative models

- State-space models
- Representation learning

- Intrinsic motivation

- Intelligent systems

- Decision making in economics

- etc

*Paper submissions*

We welcome submissions of papers with up to 8 printed pages (excluding references) in LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submissions will be evaluated according to their originality and relevance to the workshop, and should have an abstract of 60-100 words.

Contributions should be in PDF format and submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwai2021

In accordance with the main conference, will apply a double-blind review process (see also the double-blind reviewing process section below for further details). All papers need to be anonymized in the best of efforts. It is allowed to have a (non-anonymous) online pre-print. Reviewers will be asked not to search for them.

Previous edition: https://iwaiworkshop.github.io/2020.html
Previous proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649180

On behalf of the organizers,

Tim Verbelen, Daniela Cialfi, Maxwell Ramstead, Christopher Buckley and Pablo Lanillos

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Dr. Pablo Lanillos

www.therobotdecision.com  

Assistant professor in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence | AI Robotics Lab

ELLIS Nijmegen Unit

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands

p.lanillos @ donders.ru.nl