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.
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