Conor Heins
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Publications

Journal articles

  • 2025 · Frontiers in Network Physiology, 5:1521963
    From Pixels to Planning: Scale-Free Active Inference
    Karl Friston, Conor Heins, Tim Verbelen, Lancelot Da Costa, Tommaso Salvatori, Dimitrije Markovic, Alexander Tschantz, Magnus Koudahl, Christopher Buckley, Thomas Parr
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  • 2024 · PNAS, 121(17): e2320239121
    Collective Behavior from Surprise Minimization
    Conor Heins, Beren Millidge, Lancelot Da Costa, Richard Mann, Karl Friston, Iain Couzin
    The first active inference model of collective motion — surprise-minimizing agents spontaneously reproduce real-world flocking patterns.
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  • 2022 · Journal of Open Source Software, 7(73): 4098
    pymdp: A Python Library for Active Inference in Discrete State-Spaces
    Conor Heins, Beren Millidge, Dimitris Demekas, Brennan Klein, Karl Friston, Iain Couzin, Adam Tschantz
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  • 2020 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3:81
    Deep Active Inference and Scene Construction
    Conor Heins, Mehdi Mirza, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston, Igor Kagan, Arezoo Pooresmaeili
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Preprints

  • 2025 · arXiv preprint
    AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models
    Conor Heins, Toon Van de Maele, Alexander Tschantz, Hampus Linander, Dimitrije Markovic, Tommaso Salvatori, Corrado Pezzato, Ozan Catal, Ran Wei, Magnus Koudahl, et al.
    Object-centric model-based agent that learns Atari-like games in minutes via online structure learning + MPPI planning.
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  • 2025 · arXiv preprint
    Soft Geometric Inductive Bias for Object-Centric Dynamics
    Hampus Linander, Conor Heins, Alexander Tschantz, Marco Perin, Christopher Buckley
    Geometric transformer world models for 2-D / 3-D trajectories and the Waymo Open Motion Dataset.
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  • 2024 · arXiv preprint
    Gradient-Free Variational Learning with Conditional Mixture Networks
    Conor Heins, Han Wu, Dimitrije Markovic, Alexander Tschantz, Jeff Beck, Christopher Buckley
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  • 2024 · arXiv preprint
    Navigation Under Uncertainty: Trajectory Prediction and Occlusion Reasoning with Switching Dynamical Systems
    Rui Wei, Jason Lee, Sho Wakayama, Alexander Tschantz, Conor Heins, Christopher Buckley, John Carenbauer, Hari Thiruvengada, Manuel Albarracin, Miguel de Prado, Peter Horling, Patrik Winzell, Ram Rajagopal
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