From Passive Mirrors to Active Agents

Authors/institutions: Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Omar Hashash and Walid Saad, Virginia Tech. Status: arXiv preprint, 6 Aug. Problem: centralised digital twins do not scale well for distributed physical AI. Contribution: holonic twins with causal belief exchange and active inference. Significance: an architecture for edge coordination. Limitations: theoretical, not a deployment or independent reproduction. Paper.