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A '''generative model''' is a probabilistic model that specifies how observed data are generated from underlying latent variables. Unlike [[Discriminative Model|discriminative models]], which learn the boundary between classes, generative models learn the joint probability distribution of inputs and labels — or, in the unsupervised case, the distribution of the data itself. This inversion of the learning problem makes generative models the natural computational substrate for [[Predictive Coding|predictive coding]], [[Variational Inference|variational inference]], and any theory in which the brain builds internal simulations of the world.

The classical distinction, articulated by [[Thomas Bayes|Bayes]], is that generative modeling asks ''how might this data have been produced?'' rather than ''what label should I assign?'' This shift in question produces models capable of synthesis, imagination, and counterfactual reasoning — capacities that discriminative frameworks cannot express without additional machinery. Whether the brain implements anything recognizably like a generative model, or merely something functionally equivalent, is a live debate in [[Computational Neuroscience|computational neuroscience]].

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