Belief sharing: a blessing or a curse
This addresses communication challenges in multi-agent systems, but appears incremental as it builds on existing active inference frameworks.
The paper tackles the problem of negative social dynamics like echo chambers and self-doubt arising from naive posterior belief sharing in multi-agent collaboration under active inference, and proposes an alternate strategy to mitigate these issues.
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.