Newcomers, learners, researchers, builders, and collaborators.
A framework for understanding perception, action, learning, cognition, and adaptive systems.
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Active Inference is the central scientific and practical framework around which the Institute organizes education, research, applications, and ecosystem support.
Active Inference connects perception, action, uncertainty, and model-based adaptation. The Institute presents it as a shared framework for scientific inquiry, engineering practice, education, and collective sensemaking.
Newcomers can begin with the ecosystem reference, the Start repository, public livestreams, podcasts, learning groups, readings, and implementations. The site separates those entry points into stable public pathways.
Implementation pathways include RxInfer.jl, PyMDP, SPM, symbolic cognitive robotics, notational tools, and domain-specific repositories. These support modeling, simulation, inference, and applied experimentation.
Active Inference appears across domains including biology, neuroscience, mental health, robotics, education, economics, physics, social systems, logistics, decentralized science, and scientific method.
Key surfaces
A shared language for perception, action, uncertainty, and adaptive systems.
Textbook groups, courses, streams, podcasts, readings, and shared learning repositories.
Software implementations, model-building, project work, and applied examples.
A broad community applying the framework across scientific and practical domains.
Related resources
External links are resolved from the shared registry so visitor-facing destinations stay centralized and checkable.
Audience: Newcomer
Current public landing page for the Institute, including mission, vision, open-science framing, and the Get Started pathway.
Audience: Learner
Learning repository for getting started with Active Inference materials and pathways.
Audience: Researcher
Public ecosystem shortlink for Institute context, projects, activities, and conceptual maps.
Audience: Learner
Public START documentation site for tailored Active Inference learning and curriculum generation.
Audience: Newcomer
Public video channel for seminars, streams, educational sessions, and community recordings.
Audience: Newcomer
Public videos and podcasts shortlink for browsing recordings by format and topic.
Audience: Developer
Public GitHub organization for Institute repositories and open-source work.
Audience: Developer
Project repository for multiagent Active Inference modeling work.
Audience: Developer
Generalized Notation Notation project repository for model communication.
Audience: Developer
Geospatial modeling repository connected to ecological and bioregional applications.
Audience: Researcher
Research and publication-oriented repository for the Active Inference Journal.
Audience: Contributor
Public Project Preparation shortlink for making proposed work legible and actionable.
Official pages
Audience: Newcomer
Current public Institute landing page with mission, vision, nonprofit status, community metrics, and Get Started pathway.
Audience: Learner
Official education entry point, currently resolving to courses.
Audience: Learner
Official courses page for learning Active Inference.
Audience: Learner
Official Textbook Group page.
Audience: Researcher
Official research entry point, currently resolving to the research overview.
Audience: Researcher
Official research overview page.
Audience: Developer
Official Knowledge Engineering page.
Audience: Developer
Official Active Blockference page.
Repositories
Audience: Researcher
Computational meta-analysis of Active Inference literature with nanopublication and knowledge-graph outputs.
Audience: Learner
Active Inference and RxInfer.jl
Audience: Researcher
Ontology-oriented repository for shared Active Inference concepts and decentralized science knowledge infrastructure.
Audience: Developer
Notebook-based applied Active Inference work connected to blockchain-adjacent and generative modeling examples.
Audience: Developer
Python models and materials for ant-inspired multiagent Active Inference.
Audience: Researcher
Active Inference & Category Theory
Audience: Learner
For learning and exploring Probabilistic Inference
Audience: Researcher
Public content repository for the Active Inference Journal and related publication infrastructure.