[HTML][HTML] Federated inference and belief sharing

KJ Friston, T Parr, C Heins, A Constant… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper concerns the distributed intelligence or federated inference that emerges under
belief-sharing among agents who share a common world—and world model. Imagine, for …

Collective predictive coding hypothesis: Symbol emergence as decentralized bayesian inference

T Taniguchi - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the emergence of symbol systems, especially language, requires the
construction of a computational model that reproduces both the developmental learning …

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

C Heins, B Millidge, L Da Costa, RP Mann… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Collective motion is ubiquitous in nature; groups of animals, such as fish, birds, and
ungulates appear to move as a whole, exhibiting a rich behavioral repertoire that ranges …

Designing ecosystems of intelligence from first principles

KJ Friston, MJD Ramstead, AB Kiefer… - Collective …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This white paper lays out a vision of research and development in the field of artificial
intelligence for the next decade (and beyond). Its denouement is a cyber-physical …

Fostering collective intelligence in human–AI collaboration: laying the groundwork for COHUMAIN

P Gupta, TN Nguyen, C Gonzalez… - Topics in cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered machines are increasingly mediating our work and many
of our managerial, economic, and cultural interactions. While technology enhances …

Understanding collective intelligence: Investigating the role of collective memory, attention, and reasoning processes

AW Woolley, P Gupta - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As society has come to rely on groups and technology to address many of its most
challenging problems, there is a growing need to understand how technology-enabled …

Epistemic communities under active inference

M Albarracin, D Demekas, MJD Ramstead, C Heins - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The spread of ideas is a fundamental concern of today's news ecology. Understanding the
dynamics of the spread of information and its co-option by interested parties is of critical …

Collective intelligence in human-AI teams: A Bayesian theory of mind approach

S Westby, C Riedl - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We develop a network of Bayesian agents that collectively model the mental states of
teammates from the observed communication. Using a generative computational approach …

Dynamic expectation maximization algorithm for estimation of linear systems with colored noise

A Anil Meera, M Wisse - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The free energy principle from neuroscience has recently gained traction as one of the most
prominent brain theories that can emulate the brain's perception and action in a bio-inspired …

[HTML][HTML] As One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference

PT Waade, CL Olesen, JE Laursen, SW Nehrer… - Entropy, 2025 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Active inference under the Free Energy Principle has been proposed as an across-scales
compatible framework for understanding and modelling behaviour and self-maintenance …