# AGENTS.md — Federated inference and belief sharing

**Paper**: Federated inference and belief sharing (2024)
**Area**: Active Inference
**Authors**: Karl J. Friston, Thomas Parr, Conor Heins, Axel Constant, Daniel Friedman, Takuya Isomura, Chris Fields, Tim Verbelen, Maxwell Ramstead, John Clippinger, Christopher D. Frith

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Federated inference and belief sharing
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: This paper formulates federated inference and belief sharing as a principled approach to distributed intelligence. By extending Active Inference to mu...
- Evaluate: Formalizes federated inference extending Active Inference to distributed settings
- Evaluate: Develops principled belief sharing through message passing between agents
- Evaluate: Shows how collective cognition emerges without sharing raw observations

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Federated Active Inference formalization
- Assess and document: Belief sharing via message passing
- Assess and document: Multi-agent generative modeling
- Assess and document: Distributed inference architecture design

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this active inference work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: federated inference, belief sharing, Active Inference, distributed intelligence, multi-agent systems
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2024_FederatedInference.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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