aswinpaul/lsmdps_demo

Tutorial of Linearly Solvable MDPs (Torodov et al., 2009)

• 👋 Hi, I’m @aswinpaul
• 👀 I’m interested in brain-inspired agents for optimal decision-making.
• 🌱 I’m currently a PhD student at IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India.
• 💞️ I want to collaborate on topics like reinforcement learning, Bayesian agents, active inference, CRNs, etc.
• 📫 How to reach me: [email protected]
• ✨ Google Scholar: link to profile.
• ✨ ORCID: link to profile.
• ✨ LinkedIn: link to profile.
• ✨ Twitter profile: link to profile.

Publications:

1. Paul, A., Sajid, N., Da Costa, L., & Razi, A. (2024). On efficient computation in active inference. Expert Systems With Applications, 253, 124315. link.
2. Paul, A., Isomura, T., & Razi, A. (2024). On Predictive Planning and Counterfactual Learning in Active Inference. Entropy, 26(6), 484. link.
3. Paul, A., Sajid, N., Gopalkrishnan, M., Razi, A. (2021). Active Inference for Stochastic Control. In: et al. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1524. Springer, Cham. link

Preprints:

1. Friston, K. J., Salvatori, T., Isomura, T., Tschantz, A., Kiefer, A., Verbelen, T., Koudahl, M., Paul, A., Parr, T., Razi, A., Kagan, B., Buckley, C. L., & Ramstead, M. J. (2023). Active Inference and Intentional Behaviour. ArXiv. /abs/2312.07547
2. Khajehnejad, M., Habibollahi, F., Paul, A., Razi, A., & Kagan, B. J. (2024). Biological Neurons Compete with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Sample Efficiency in a Simulated Gameworld. ArXiv. /abs/2405.16946

Talk at Active Inference Institute: On efficient computation in active inference: link.

Experience:

1. Pymdp fellow (Northeastern University, University): Fellowship page
2. Data Officer (Monash University): Data fluency Monash

Honours/Awards:

1. Tata Chemicals Best Conference Paper Award 2022: Awarded to the best conference published in the year 2020-2021 by PhD candidates at IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India.
2. Institute Medal 2019: For securing the highest CGPA in the MSc Physics program, 2017-2019 batch, Department of Physics, VNIT Nagpur, India.
3. Academic Excellence Award 2019: For scoring the highest CGPA in MSc. Physics program, batch: 2017-2019, Department of Physics, VNIT Nagpur, India.