Researchers, ecologists, and practitioners working on agricultural systems, soil biology, and applied ecology.
Applied Active Inference modeling for agriculture, soil biology, and ecological systems.
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FarmWorks develops miniature Active Inference models and applications for agricultural and ecological contexts. The project has produced a public FarmWorks page and a 2024 publication describing the approach of treating farm and soil systems as active inference agents.
FarmWorks applies Active Inference concepts to agricultural systems — treating farms, soil ecosystems, and crop cycles as generative models that sense and act in their environments. The project develops mini-projects, models, and publications demonstrating how Active Inference illuminates ecological decision-making and farm management.
The project produced a 2024 publication, "FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions," describing a platform for human-AI interaction in agriculture that enables personalized, farm-scale solutions and resists the power concentration associated with centralized AI systems. A related grant proposal was submitted in September 2024. The project maintains a FarmWorks overview page describing the theoretical grounding and practical applications, and work includes model prototypes and documentation for soil and agricultural Active Inference.
FarmWorks welcomes ecologists, agricultural scientists, modelers, and anyone interested in applying Active Inference to biological and ecological systems.
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Primary public community channel for conversation, coordination, and newcomer orientation.
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Public ecosystem shortlink for Institute context, projects, activities, and conceptual maps.
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Public GitHub organization for Institute repositories and open-source work.
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Project repository for multiagent Active Inference modeling work.
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Generalized Notation Notation project repository for model communication.
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Geospatial modeling repository connected to ecological and bioregional applications.
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Research and publication-oriented repository for the Active Inference Journal.
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External paper repository surfaced from the official research page.
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Official pages
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Public projects shortlink for project directories and activity-linked work.
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Public project measurement shortlink for reporting progress and outputs.
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Public Active Inference Ontology shortlink for shared conceptual infrastructure.
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Public Project Preparation shortlink for making proposed work legible and actionable.
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Public Wave Hypothesis shortlink.
Repositories
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Computational meta-analysis of Active Inference literature with nanopublication and knowledge-graph outputs.
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Ontology-oriented repository for shared Active Inference concepts and decentralized science knowledge infrastructure.
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Notebook-based applied Active Inference work connected to blockchain-adjacent and generative modeling examples.
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Python models and materials for ant-inspired multiagent Active Inference.
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Active Inference & Category Theory
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Public content repository for the Active Inference Journal and related publication infrastructure.
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Active Entity Ontology for Science
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Public ants repository in the ActiveInferenceInstitute GitHub namespace.