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Planning Under Uncertainty: From MPC to Active Inference
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Planning Under Uncertainty: From MPC to Active Inference

A practitioner's tour of how an agent turns a doubtful model into a decision: model-predictive control and why replanning every step is the robustness, CEM and random shooting as the planners world-model papers actually run, planning through a posterior instead of a point estimate, and expected free energy with the sign convention stated the right way round.

Aug 16, 2026•10 min read
The Full Loop: World Models That Act on What They Don't Know
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The Full Loop: World Models That Act on What They Don't Know

Calibrated confidence is a permission slip — this week we spend it. From PILCO's 17.5 seconds of robot experience to V-JEPA 2 planning zero-shot on a Franka arm, we trace how uncertainty becomes action. Then we look at the 2026 result that breaks the arc's own thesis: a world model can be locally well-calibrated and globally, confidently wrong.

Aug 15, 2026•13 min read