arXiv:2603.18888cs.LG2026-03

提出权威级先验机制,解释为何信念改变后身体应激反应仍稳定。

Authority-Level Priors: An Under-Specified Constraint in Hierarchical Predictive Processing

  • 用权威级先验约束哪些假设可参与调节控制
  • 模型预测应激反应曲线和行为持久性等可测量变化
  • 适合研究心理调节、神经机制与计算精神病学的学者

层级预测处理通过精度加权推断解释适应性行为,但显式信念更新常无法改变应激反应或自主调节。这种不对称性表明框架未明确治理层面的约束——即在不确定性下,何种身份级假设可支配自主与行为控制。本文引入权威级先验(ALPs),作为定义可接受调控假设子集(Hauth ⊆ H)的元结构约束。ALPs并非额外表征状态或精度上的超先验,而是决定假设是否具有调控资格。精度决定可接受假设下的影响力,而ALPs决定准入本身。这解释了为何信念更新仅改变表征,却不影响自主威胁反应。计算形式化将策略优化限制于授权假设生成的策略,产生关于应激反应动态、恢复时间常数、补偿性控制投入及行为持续性的可检验预测。神经上,ALPs通过分布式的前额叶仲裁与控制网络实现。该模型兼容变分主动推理,不引入额外推断算子,而是形式化确定身份-调节映射所需的边界条件。模型生成可证伪预测:治理转换应导致应激反应曲线、恢复动态、补偿认知努力及行为改变持久性等可观测变化。ALPs被作为需通过计算建模与纵向应激诱导范式验证的架构假说提出。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Hierarchical predictive processing explains adaptive behaviour through precision-weighted inference. Explicit belief revision often fails to produce corresponding changes in stress reactivity or autonomic regulation. This asymmetry suggests the framework leaves under-specified a governance-level constraint concerning which identity-level hypotheses regulate autonomic and behavioural control under uncertainty. We introduce Authority-Level Priors (ALPs) as meta-structural constraints defining a regulatory-admissible subset (Hauth, a subset of H) of identity-level hypotheses. ALPs are not additional representational states nor hyperpriors over precision; they constrain which hypotheses are admissible for regulatory control. Precision determines influence conditional on admissibility; ALPs determine admissibility itself. This explains why explicit belief updating modifies representational beliefs while autonomic threat responses remain stable. A computational formalisation restricts policy optimisation to policies generated by authorised hypotheses, yielding testable predictions concerning stress-reactivity dynamics, recovery time constants, compensatory control engagement, and behavioural persistence. Neurobiologically, ALPs manifest through distributed prefrontal arbitration and control networks. The proposal is compatible with variational active inference and introduces no additional inferential operators, instead formalising a boundary condition required for determinate identity-regulation mapping. The model generates falsifiable predictions: governance shifts should produce measurable changes in stress-reactivity curves, recovery dynamics, compensatory cognitive effort, and behavioural change durability. ALPs are advanced as an architectural hypothesis to be evaluated through computational modelling and longitudinal stress-induction paradigms.

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