Publications of Robert Conor Heins

Nehrer, S. W.; Laursen, J. E.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.; Waade, P. T.: Introducing ActiveInference.jl: A Julia library for simulation and parameter estimation with active inference models. Entropy 27 (1), 62 (2025)

Waade, P. T.; Olesen, C. L.; Laursen, J. E.; Nehrer, S. W.; Heins, R. C.; Friston, K.; Mathys, C.: As one and many: relating individual and emergent group-level generative models in active inference. Entropy 27 (2), 143 (2025)

Friston, K. J.; Parr, T.; Heins, R. C.; Constant, A.; Friedman, D.; Isomura, T.; Fields, C.; Verbelen, T.; Ramstead, M.; Clippinger, J. et al.; Frith, C. D.: Federated inference and belief sharing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 156, 105500 (2024)

Heins, R. C.; Millidge, B.; Da Costa, L.; Mann, R. P.; Friston, K. J.; Couzin, I. D.: Collective behavior from surprise minimization. PNAS 121 (17), e2320239121 (2024)

Aguilera, M.; Poc-López, A.; Heins, R. C.; Buckley, C. L.: Knitting a Markov blanket is hard when you are out-of-equilibrium: Two examples in canonical nonequilibrium models. 3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), Grenoble, France, pp. 65 - 74 (2023)

Couzin, I. D.; Heins, R. C.: Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38 (4), pp. 346 - 354 (2023)

Friston, K.; Da Costa, L.; Sajid, N.; Heins, R. C.; Ueltzhoffer, K.; Pavliotis, G. A.; Parr, T.: The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple. Physics Reports: Review Section of Physics Letters 1024, pp. 1 - 29 (2023)

Friston, K.; Da Costa, L.; Sakthivadivel, D. A. R.; Heins, R. C.; Pavliotis, G. A.; Ramstead, M.; Parr, T.: Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things. Physics of Life Reviews 47, pp. 35 - 62 (2023)

Heins, R. C.; Klein, B.; Demekas, D.; Aguilera, M.; Buckley, C. L.: Spin glass systems as collective active inference. 3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), Grenoble, France (1721), pp. 75 - 98 (2023)

Ramstead, M. J. D.; Sakthivadivel, D. A. R.; Heins, R. C.; Koudahl, M.; Millidge, B.; Da Costa, L.; Klein, B.; Friston, K. J.: On Bayesian mechanics: a physics of and by beliefs. Interface Focus 13 (3), 20220029 (2023)

Albarracin, M.; Demekas, D.; Ramstead, M. J. D.; Heins, R. C.: Epistemic communities under active inference. Entropy 24 (4), 476 (2022)

Heins, R. C.: Particular flows and attracting sets: A comment on "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?" by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz and Buckley. Physics of Life Reviews 42, pp. 43 - 48 (2022)

Heins, R. C.; Da Costa, L.: Sparse coupling and Markov blankets: A comment on "How particular is the physics of the Free Energy Principle?" by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz and Buckley. Physics of Life Reviews 42, pp. 33 - 39 (2022)

Heins, R. C.; Millidge, B.; Demekas, D.; Klein, B.; Friston, K.; Couzin, I. D.; Tschantz, A.: pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces. The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) 7 (43), 4098 (2022)

Da Costa, L.; Friston, K.; Heins, R. C.; Pavliotis, G. A.: Bayesian mechanics for stationary processes. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 477 (2256), 20210518 (2021)

Friston, K.; Heins, R. C.; Ueltzhoffer, K.; Da Costa, L.; Parr, T.: Stochastic chaos and Markov blankets. Entropy 23 (9), 1220 (2021)

Parr, T.; Da Costa, L.; Heins, R. C.; Ramstead, M. J. D.; Friston, K. J.: Memory and Markov blankets. Entropy 23 (9), 1105 (2021)

Golden, S. A.; Jin, M.; Heins, R. C.; Venniro, M.; Michaelides, M.; Shaham, Y.: Nucleus accumbens Drd1-expressing neurons control aggression self-administration and aggression seeking in mice. The Journal of Neuroscience 39 (13), pp. 2482 - 2496 (2019)

Juneau, B. A.; Stonemetz, J. M.; Toma, R. F.; Possidente, D. R.; Heins, R. C.; Vecsey, C. G.: Optogenetic activation of short neuropeptide F (sNPF) neurons induces sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Physiology & Behavior 206, pp. 143 - 156 (2019)

Sikos, L.; Tomlinson, S. B.; Heins, R. C.; Grodner, D. J.: What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolution. Cognition 182, pp. 275 - 285 (2019)