# Predictive Coding beyond Correlations

Source: [Predictive Coding beyond Correlations](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73651e209131cea5c29e>)

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Authors: Tommaso Salvatori, Luca Pinchetti, Amine M'Charrak, Beren Millidge, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Published: 2023-06-27T13:57:16.000Z

## Abstract

Recently, there has been extensive research on the capabilities of biologically plausible algorithms. In this work, we show how one of such algorithms, called predictive coding, is able to perform causal inference tasks. First, we show how a simple change in the inference process of predictive coding enables to compute interventions without the need to mutilate or redefine a causal graph. Then, we explore applications in cases where the graph is unknown, and has to be inferred from observational data. Empirically, we show how such findings can be used to improve the performance of predictive coding in image classification tasks, and conclude that such models are able to perform simple end-to-end causal inference tasks.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15479>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.15479.pdf>)