Project Lifecycle
Projects are prepared through proposals and measured through updates from the Active Inference ecosystem. All Institute and Ecosystem projects have dedicated pages with stable URLs for reference, sharing, and ongoing engagement.
Builders, researchers, maintainers, partners, and contributors looking for concrete work.
Institute and ecosystem projects convert Active Inference into public artifacts, tools, research, education, and applied practice.
Projects convert shared ideas into repositories, research outputs, learning infrastructure, media, events, and applied work.
Projects are prepared through proposals and measured through updates from the Active Inference ecosystem. All Institute and Ecosystem projects have dedicated pages with stable URLs for reference, sharing, and ongoing engagement.
EduActive hosts education-focused Institute projects: the Textbook Group, Active Inference Ontology, Active Inference Journal, Educational Course Development, Audio-Visual Production, Applied Active Inference Symposium, Seasonal School, Physics Course, Active Inference for Social Sciences, and the Video Improvement Project.
ReInference hosts research-focused Institute projects: Active Blockference, AICACP, Applied Active Inference Symposium, Cognitive Agent Modeling, FarmWorks, Generalized Notation Notation, GEO-INFER, Graphical Interface, Knowledge Engineering, Active InferAnts, RxInfer.jl, and the Theoretical Neurobiology Group.
Ecosystem projects are community-driven initiatives across computational neuroscience, AI, ecology, education, creativity, philosophy, and applied domains. Each project has a dedicated page with a stable URL.
Full catalog
Projects are classified by the canonical InstituteOS affiliation field. Institute-hosted and Ecosystem projects are listed in two separate tables below, each with its own search, topic filter, and counts; active and archived work stay distinct within each.
65 public projects with a page on this site
Institute-hosted
Projects the Active Inference Institute hosts and stewards directly, drawn from the canonical InstituteOS affiliation field. This table is independent of the Ecosystem table below: its search, topic filter, and counts cover Institute-hosted projects only.
28 projects
| Project | About | Topics | Lead & people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Inference Journal | A community publication and knowledge channel for Active Inference research and discussion. | Academic Publishing, Active Inference, Collaborative Editing, Community, Decentralized Science | Alexander Vyatkin Holly Grimm |
| Active Inference Ontology | Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions. | Active Inference, Decentralized Science, Eduactive, Formal Knowledge, Formal Logic | Daniel Friedman |
| AI²C: Active Inference Alignment Coalition | Multi-institution initiative building a research coalition, funding pipeline, and shared infrastructure for AI alignment, governance, and embodied experimentation. | Ai Alignment, Active Inference, Multi Agent Systems, Governance Frameworks, Embodied Systems | |
| AICACP | A coalition-oriented project at the intersection of AI capabilities and care practices. | Active Inference, Agency, Ai Alignment, Ai Capabilities, Ai Regulation | Adam Safron |
| Applied Active Inference Symposium | The Applied Active Inference Symposium is a yearly event that convenes the global Active Inference community. It has run five times from 2021 through 2025, with the sixth symposium in 2026. The Sympos | Active Inference, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Sessions, Community Building | Daniel Friedman |
| Audio-Visual Production | Audio-Visual Production is a sustained Institute project responsible for planning, recording, and publishing the Institute's livestreams, podcasts, video events, and educational recordings. | Audio Visual Production, Eduactive, Educational Content, Livestreams, Media Production | Daniel Friedman |
| Educational Course Development | Educational Course Development is a sustained Institute project producing structured courses in Active Inference and related topics, maintaining an Obsidian repository and course catalog for diverse l | Active Inference, Course Development, Curriculum, Eduactive, Education | Daniel Friedman |
| Generalized Notation Notation | A text-based notation system for communicating generative models and Active Inference systems that provides a shared language for describing models in a human-readable and machine-processable way. | Active Inference, Cognitive Modeling, Formal Modeling, Generative Models, Interoperability | Daniel Friedman |
| GEO-INFER | Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques. | Active Inference, Agent Systems, Bayesian Methods, Bioregional Modeling, Ecology | Daniel Friedman |
| Knowledge Engineering | Knowledge Engineering develops and maintains the public knowledge infrastructure for the Active Inference Institute, including the public frontend, literature meta-analysis, and organizational knowled | Active Inference, Annotation, Free Energy Principle, Information Science, Knowledge Engineering | Virginia Bleu Knight Daniel Friedman |
| Myth of Objectivity Hypothesis | Rigorous exploration of humanity's capacity for symbolic intelligence by modeling norms across social and identity scales to develop culturally-aligned artificial general intelligence. | Active Inference, Artificial Intelligence, Morality, Symbolic Cognition, Cultural Evolution | Shagor (Shaggy) Rahman |
| Perspective Architectures for Coherent and Attuned Artificial Agency | Formalize a minimal computational architecture that models internal coherence dynamics for AI alignment through latent generative perspective structures. | Ai Alignment, Agency, Perspective Taking, Emergent Coherence, Multi Agent Systems | |
| RxInfer.jl Learning and Development Group | The RxInfer.jl Learning and Development Group supports learning and extending RxInfer.jl, a Julia package for reactive Bayesian inference. | Active Inference, Bayesian Inference, Community Driven, Education, Julia | Daniel Friedman |
| Seasonal School | An intensive in-person or online school for deep engagement with Active Inference theory, modeling, and applications. | Active Inference, Cohort Based, Community, Community Engagement, Eduactive | Daniel Friedman |
| Start | Scalable, Tailored Active Inference Research & Training — modular pipeline generating multilingual educational materials on Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle tailored to professional doma | Active Inference, Education, Curriculum, Multilingual, Learning Paths | Daniel Friedman |
| Textbook Group | Structured cohort-based learning through Active Inference textbooks: 9 completed cohorts on the 2022 textbook since 2022, plus a first cohort now live on the 2026 Fundamentals textbook. | Active Inference, Cohort Learning, Collaborative Learning, Eduactive, Education | Daniel Friedman |
| The Foundations of Ideology | Computational-neuroscience (FEP/Active Inference) framework for how political ideologies form, persist, and evolve. | Political Ideology, Computational Neuroscience, Free Energy Principle, Active Inference, Prediction Error | |
| Theoretical Neurobiology Group | The Theoretical Neurobiology Group (TNB) supports theoretical work connecting Active Inference to neurobiology with regular meetings and discussions for mathematical and conceptual models of neural sy | Active Inference, Cognitive Science, Computational Modeling, Consciousness, Free Energy Principle | Daniel Friedman |
| Wave Hypothesis | Series of livestreams and papers by Robert Worden on the brain wave hypothesis, projective wave theory of consciousness, and Bayesian model-based cognition. | Brain Waves, Consciousness, Wave Hypothesis, Bayesian Cognition, Theoretical Neuroscience | Robert Worden |
No active institute-hosted projects match your search.
| Project | About | Topics | Lead & people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Blockference | Active Inference examples and tools for decentralized and blockchain-adjacent systems | Active Inference, Agent Behavior, Blockchain, Cadcad, Cognitive Modeling | Daniel Friedman |
| Active Entity Ontology for Science (AEOS) | Framework bridging centralized and decentralized science approaches using Active Inference principles for scientific organization and governance. | Active Inference, Decentralized Science, Scientific Ontology, Scientific Governance, Epistemic Commons | Daniel Friedman |
| Active InferAnts | Multiagent modeling of collective behavior using Active Inference, with connections to ant colony research. | Active Inference, Ant Colonies, Ant Colony, Behavioral Simulation, Collective Behavior | Daniel Friedman |
| Active Inference for Social Sciences | Develops courses, curricula, research, and writing connecting Active Inference to social sciences disciplines. | Active Inference, Curriculum, Eduactive, Education, Interdisciplinary | Avel Guénin-Carlut Daniel Friedman |
| Cognitive Agent Modeling | Developing minimal cognitive agent models using Active Inference principles. | Active Inference, Agent Modeling, Cognitive Modeling, Computational Neuroscience, Implementation | Daniel Friedman |
| FarmWorks | FarmWorks develops miniature Active Inference models and applications for agricultural and ecological contexts. | Active Inference, Agents, Agriculture, Applied Research, Decentralized Ai | Vladimir Baulin Andrew Pashea |
| Graphical Interface | A graphical interface project for Active Inference modeling and visualization. | Active Inference, Graphical Interface, Interactive Tools, Modeling, Reinference | Daniel Friedman |
| Physics Course | A course connecting physics, thermodynamics, and the theoretical foundations of Active Inference. | Active Inference, Eduactive, Education, Free Energy Principle, Information Theory | Daniel Friedman |
| Video Improvement Project | The Video Improvement Project focuses on enhancing the quality, organization, and accessibility of the Institute's extensive video library — covering hundreds of livestreams, educational sessions, and | Accessibility, Discoverability, Eduactive, Education, Media Improvement | Daniel Friedman |
No archived or completed institute-hosted projects match your search.
Ecosystem
Community-driven projects across the wider Active Inference ecosystem, drawn from the same canonical affiliation field. This table is independent of the Institute-hosted table above: its search, topic filter, and counts cover Ecosystem projects only.
37 projects
| Project | About | Topics | Lead & people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Inference Account of Belief Updating in PTSD | Develops a formal Active Inference account of belief updating in PTSD using predictive processing and free energy frameworks. | Active Inference, Belief Updating, Computational Psychiatry, Free Energy, Neuroscience | Jeremy Cooper |
| Anima | Exploring Active Inference in the context of current LLM-based AI interactions and policy-based behavior. | Active Inference, Ai Alignment, Ai Behavior, Cognitive Science, Large Language Models | Stell |
| Artificial Sentience | Exploring the conditions for and implications of sentience in artificial systems through an Active Inference lens. | Active Inference, Ai Research, Artificial Sentience, Consciousness, Free Energy Principle | Cleber Gomes |
| CogNarr Ecosystem | Facilitating group cognition at scale through cognitive narrative infrastructure. | Active Inference, Cognitive Architecture, Cognitive Scaffolding, Collaborative Systems, Collective Intelligence | John Boik |
| Cognitive Somatic Regulator | Active Inference modeling applied to somatic regulation, ethical threshold gating, and neuro-somatic dynamics. | Active Inference, Somatic Regulation, Affective Cognition, Cognitive Modeling | Colleen Pridemore |
| Coherence Density: Measuring Coordination in Complex Adaptive Systems | A measurement-focused framework evaluating internal coordination and stability in complex adaptive systems. | Active Inference, Complex Systems, Coordination, Measurement, Adaptive Systems | Travis James |
| cpomdp — Continuous Active Inference for Python | A tested, documented continuous-state Active Inference Python library with certifiable tolerances and reference implementations. | Active Inference, Python, Continuous State, Open Source, Reinference | Daniel Corva |
| Ed4All: Active Inference for Grounded Educational Knowledge Environments | An open, locally deployable, empirically evaluated framework for grounded educational agents that operate within explicit knowledge and evidentiary boundaries. | Eduactive | Matthew D Murphy |
| Energy Modeling Human Brain Metabolism | Applying Active Inference to model metabolic energy dynamics in the human brain. | Active Inference, Brain Metabolism, Computational Neurobiology, Energy Dynamics, Free Energy Principle | Tim Huggers |
| Geometric Inquiry Theory | Geometric Inquiry Theory develops a geometric framework for understanding inquiry as a structured dynamic process through Q-State Dynamics and the structural basis of inquiry as a coherent mathematica | Active Inference, Formal Methods, Geometric Foundations, Inquiry Theory, Mathematics | Bruce Tisler |
| Humanity's Story of an Uncertain Self | Ecosystem project developing a broad account of human self-knowledge as an inference problem through Active Inference and free energy. | Active Inference, Cognitive Science, Free Energy, Human Understanding, Narrative Theory | Shagor (Shaggy) Rahman |
| Improving RxInfer.jl Model Visualization | Developing visualization capabilities for RxInfer.jl probabilistic models. | Active Inference, Bayesian Inference, Graph Rendering, Julia, Probabilistic Models | Fraser Paterson |
| Model-Centric Cognition | Developing the Wave Hypothesis and model-centric approaches to cognition and knowledge representation. | Active Inference, Cognitive Science, Knowledge Representation, Model Centric Cognition, Reinference | Robert Worden |
| Numinia | Autonomous AI and educational adventure game grounded in Active Inference principles, where players and agents co-learn through play. | Active Inference, Ai Agents, Autonomous Agents, Eduactive, Educational Game | PabloFM |
| pymdp | Community Python library implementing Active Inference for POMDPs. | Active Inference, Markov Decision Process, Python, Generative Models, Computation | Conor Heins |
| Regime-Dependent Active Inference: Addiction & Recovery Dynamics | Extending Active Inference with regime-dependent generative models to represent dynamic progressions in addiction, relapse, and recovery. | Active Inference, Computational Psychiatry, Addiction, Generative Models, Hybrid Systems | Dr. Martin Bello |
| Symbolic Cognitive Robotics | Symbolic Cognitive Robotics is an Ecosystem project applying Active Inference to robotic systems that combine symbolic reasoning with embodied action. | Active Inference, Bayesian Reasoning, Cognitive Architecture, Embodied Cognition, Reinference | Jean-François Cloutier |
No active ecosystem projects match your search.
| Project | About | Topics | Lead & people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action Research on Collective Foraging | Action Research on Collective Foraging (Negotiation Affordances) applies Active Inference to collective foraging behavior — studying how groups form coalitions, negotiate opportunities, and sustain va | Active Inference, Behavioral Science, Collective Behavior, Eduactive, Foraging | Susan Hasty |
| Active Inference Agent for Modeling Human Translation | Modeling human translation processes using Active Inference agent architectures. | Active Inference, Agent Architectures, Cognitive Modeling, Computational Linguistics, Free Energy Framework | Michael Carl |
| Active Inference Cycle Book for Self-Knowing | A reflective book project applying Active Inference as a framework for self-knowledge and personal development. | Active Inference, Eduactive, Education, Personal Development, Practical Framework | Anna Pereira |
| Active Inference for Built Environments & CooperActive Systems | Apply Active Inference to designing, managing, and evolving built environments that prioritize the flourishing of all life, via distributed intelligence and digital twins. | Reinference | Ivan Metelkin |
| Clinical Waveform Data Based Agent | Active Inference systems for bedside clinical waveform monitoring applying the free energy framework to real-time EEG, ECG, and physiological signals. | Active Inference, Bedside Decision Support, Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Monitoring, Free Energy Framework | Franklin Ducatez |
| Creativity and Creators Under the Free Energy Principle | This Ecosystem project develops accounts of creativity and creative agents under the Free Energy Principle — examining how generative models and free energy minimization explain, predict, and enhance | Active Inference, Cognitive Science, Creative Agents, Creativity, Eduactive | Héctor Manrique Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ana Magdalena Hurtado, Dean Tickles |
| Digital Agents | Tuesday Discord sessions on digital agents and Active Inference. | Reinference | PabloFM Daniel Friedman |
| Froebel's System | Studying Friedrich Froebel's pedagogical system through Active Inference and integral studies. | Active Inference, Cohort Based Learning, Eduactive, Education, Integral Studies | Joanne Phillips |
| From Instrument to Intelligent Agent: Robotic Microscopy | Deploying Active Inference and AI to automate robotic microscopy and manage soil biology at scale. | Active Inference, Ai Agents, Autonomous Systems, Instrumentation, Microscopy | Craig Arnold |
| Fundamentals of Active Inference | Ecosystem project supporting the development and dissemination of the Fundamentals of Active Inference textbook — a comprehensive introduction to Active Inference principles, algorithms, and applicati | Active Inference, Eduactive, Education, Engineering, Expectation Maximisation | Daniel Friedman |
| Graphspeak / Blorbbe | Ecosystem project developing open-source tools for graph-based communication and knowledge representation. | Generative Models, Graph Based Communication, Graph Tools, Interoperable Notation, Knowledge Representation | Andrew Djuwidja Daniel Friedman |
| M-Theory as Function of Hyper Dimensional Prismatic Light Scattering (HDPLS-TARS) | HDPLS-TARS is a speculative Ecosystem project testing the limits of M-Theory through hyper-dimensional field interconnections and prismatic light scattering dynamics. | Active Inference, Hyper Dimensional Geometry, Information Geometry, M Theory, Mathematical Physics | David Hughes |
| MathArt Conversations | Exploring profound connections between mathematics and the arts through collaborative conversation. | Art, Art Science, Collaborative Dialogue, Creative Inquiry, Eduactive | Shanna Dobson Héctor Manrique, Daniel Friedman, Dean Tickles |
| Neurodivergent Learning Sessions | Active Inference learning resources and sessions tailored for neurodivergent participants, building curriculum and community structures for autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent learners. | Accessibility, Active Inference, Community Structures, Curriculum Development, Eduactive | Jesse G |
| Project Development for Solving the Tower of Babel Problem | Develops a framework for solving the Tower of Babel Problem through UniFysica Philo-sophia, a universal conceptual bridge for cross-domain knowledge communication and translation. | Active Inference, Conceptual Frameworks, Cross Domain Translation, Eduactive, Knowledge Communication | Ana Magdalena Hurtado Dean Tickles |
| Project Sweet (Sus) Dogg | Applies Active Inference principles to understanding and improving human-animal relationships through alignment and trust-building. | Active Inference, Animal Behavior, Cognitive Modeling, Ethology, Human Animal Alignment | Andrew Djuwidja |
| The Einstein Model of a Solid as a Model of the Mental Apparatus | Bridging psychoanalytic theory and Active Inference through the economic perspective of psychoanalytic theory. | Active Inference, Formal Bridges, Free Energy Principle, Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis | Theodoros Aliferis |
| The Three Mosqueteers | Science communication livestream making scientific information accessible to people without a scientific background. | Accessibility, Active Inference, Eduactive, Education, Livestream | Héctor Manrique Ana Magdalena Hurtado |
| The Universal Basic Income Experiment | Studies universal basic income through Active Inference modeling and simulation using token economics, policy simulation, and behavioral modeling. | Active Inference, Agent Based Modeling, Behavioral Modeling, Economic Policy, Policy Simulation | Die Schwarze Katze |
| The Unordinary Bible Study (TUBS) | Monthly sessions cross-referencing biblical verses with a focus on inter-faith and contemporary perspective dialogue, connecting active inference to process theology. | Eduactive | Jesse G |
No archived or completed ecosystem projects match your search.
Key surfaces
A coalition-oriented project around AI alignment and care practices.
Applies Active Inference examples and tooling in blockchain-adjacent contexts.
Multiagent modeling work linked to prior code and papers.
A publication-oriented knowledge and research channel.
Ontology work for decentralized science and epistemic commons.
A recurring symposium with prior events and presenter or sponsor pathways.
Cognitive Narrative ecosystem work for facilitating group cognition at scale.
Public educational work, including social science and physics course directions.
Applied mini-project development around soil, agriculture, and ecological modeling.
A textbook and learning-group pathway for core concepts.
A text-based notation project for communicating models.
Geospatial modeling and active inference techniques.
Public frontend, literature meta-analysis, and organizational knowledge infrastructure.
Learning and development around RxInfer.jl examples and applications.
Support for theoretical neurobiology conversations and model development.
The Active Inference Alignment Coalition — a coalition, funding pipeline, and shared infrastructure for AI alignment work. A separate project from AICACP.
An 18-month roadmap developing computational architectures of perspective, coherence, and social attunement in artificial agents.
A Free Energy Principle account of political ideology formation, cognitive rigidity, and category conflation.
A model of the co-evolution of morality and symbolic thought via transcendental model selection.
An active-inference ontology bridging institutional and decentralized science, from situated sensemaking to the epistemic commons.
A modular pipeline generating professional-domain educational materials on Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle.
An open-source Python package for discrete-state Active Inference, widely used across the research community.
An open, locally deployable framework for grounded educational agents operating within explicit knowledge boundaries.
Monthly sessions cross-referencing biblical verses with Active Inference and process theology.
Weekly Discord sessions on digital agent design through an Active Inference lens.
Applying Active Inference, distributed intelligence, and digital twins to designing and managing built environments.
Public repositories
Repository rows preserve public language, stars, update recency, project family, and documentation links.
| Repository | Family | Type | Language | Stars | Updated | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ActiveInferenceJournal | Research and publications | Research/content repository | HTML | 43 | 2026-05-25 | Repository |
| ActiveBlockference | Open-source projects | Notebook repository | Jupyter Notebook | 33 | 2026-05-27 | Repository |
| ActiveInferAnts | Open-source projects | Code repository | Python | 29 | 2026-05-18 | Repository |
| GeneralizedNotationNotation | Open-source projects | Code repository | Pkl | 24 | 2026-05-25 | Repository |
| fundamentals | Learning and implementations | Code repository | Python | 19 | 2026-06-05 | Repository |
| cognitive | Open-source projects | Code repository | Python | 18 | 2026-03-09 | Repository |
| Active_Inference_Ontology | Research and publications | Project materials repository | Unspecified | 14 | 2026-05-18 | Repository |
| CEREBRUM | Research and publications | Code repository | Python | 13 | 2026-06-09 | Repository |
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