Variational Free Energy Minimization for Mechanism Identification in Clinical Antimicrobial Resistance.
We present a novel Variational Free Energy (VFE) application for zero-shot AMR identification. By treating diagnostics as categorical inference within a structural generative model—rather than distributive ML—we map clinical phenotypes to mechanisms via EUCAST 2024 logic. This minimizes surprise to identify resistance without prior training
Authors
- Dheeraj Swamy B. L. P.
- Rahul Chouhan
Institutions
- Emerson (Sweden) (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19288893
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00