P. Anokhin

A. Sorokin

M. Burtsev

K. Friston

Using the free energy principle to derive multiple theories of associative learning allows us to combine them into a single, unifying framework.

Associative learning, information and active inference
In this paper we demonstrate that the free energy principle can
explain and combine into a single framework the principles of
associative learning, derived earlier in the studies of animal
behavior in conditioning experiments, and make some assumptions
regarding the mechanisms of learning. However, only a few experiments
have been modeled, and the literature on associative learning is vast.
Thus, the goal of further research may be to model the described
experiments on animals and humans, as well as to plan new ones that
test the principles of learning as free energy minimization.