Research

Some research and products of Active Inference Institute and participants are below: 

2023:

• "A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics", Karl Friston, Daniel Ari Friedman, Axel Constant, V. Bleu Knight, Thomas Parr, John O. Campbell, 2023

• "Active Inference for Autonomous Decision-Making with Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits", Shohei Wakayama and Nisar Ahmed, 2023

• "A single-pheromone model accounts for empirical patterns of ant colony foraging previously modeled using two pheromones", Eric Saund and Daniel Friedman, Cognitive Systems Research, 2023. 

2022:

• "The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference: a Systematic Literature Analysis", Virginia Bleu Knight; RJ Cordes, Daniel Friedman. 2022.

• Catechism for: "Towards Active Diffusion: A Tale of Multiple (den)Cities", Jakub Smékal, Daniel Friedman. 2022. 

• "Predictive Processing Interpretation of the Mirror Test and Implications of a Reflection Prediction for Human Cognition", Sean O'Connor and Daniel Friedman. 2022.

• "An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons".

  • Active Entity Ontology for Science: https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-entity-ontology-for-science-aeos

  • Currently we are working to develop this Ontology to describe all kinds of epistemic ecosystems, include Decentralized Science (DeSci).

2021:

• Transcript of: Karl Friston, 1st Applied Active Inference Symposium https://zenodo.org/record/5797041

• “Active Inference in Modeling Conflict” https://zenodo.org/record/5750935

• “Narrative Information Management” https://zenodo.org/record/5573287 .

• Cognitio 2021 https://www.cognitio2021.com/

  • "Thinking like a State: Active inference and the deep roots of complex societies", Bleu Knight, https://osf.io/dxnzt/

  • “Intelligence without creativity: can Active Inference ground our understanding of life, cognition and society", Avel Guénin-Carlut

  • "Evolution of Latent Model for Collective Cognition", Amit Singh

• "Active InferAnts: The basis for an active inference framework for ant colony behavior", paper www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.647732/

• 2nd International Workshop on Active Inference "Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams", poster on the 2020 paper “Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams” https://zenodo.org/record/4021163

• "ColIective Intelligence as Latent Imagination", Amit Singh, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM'21), 73 

• "Context Switching in Machine Minds", Amit Singh, Society of Mathematical Psychology 2021, https://youtu.be/4647USeygmg

2020:

• "Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams" Alex Vyatkin, Ivan Metelkin, Alexandra Mikhailova, RJ Cordes, Daniel Friedman