Active Fedference v1.0.4

Active Fedference v1.0.4

Active Fedference v1.0.4 is the source-bound public release of a tested,
reproducible discrete-categorical FedGVI implementation connected to a
qualified active-inference belief-sharing bridge.

Permanent research artifact

• Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21972644
• Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/21972644
• Public repository: https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Active_Fedference
• The manuscript PDF in this release is the same byte sequence verified in the
  published Zenodo record: 9,133,435 bytes, MD5
  b8f13a1cb8237389a32a50a271d9c041, SHA-256
  23d7faa80c47e01804be076c8823bdcf999b3231aa70ed52635d3406a0ddda5a.

Included evidence

• Publication-profile analysis, token hydration, figures, HTML, slides, and
  release manifest are committed as the reviewer snapshot.
• The full test/coverage gate passed with 1,695 tests and 90.26% coverage.
• The release manifest records 476 artifacts and the source/config provenance
  fingerprint for this snapshot.
• The combined PDF has 76 pages; tagged structure, catalog language, and a
  structure tree were checked. The HTML surface remains the
  accessibility-enhanced canonical reader.

Claim boundary

The exact zero-robustness identity is project-local. The comparison with
Friston et al. (2024) Eq. 7 is a documented categorical
posterior-log-potential specialization, not a reconstruction of the complete
message-passing protocol. The server-side robust rule remains explicitly
described as a heuristic; the objective-backed variational rule and the
source-conditional client result retain separate evidence boundaries. Tagged
PDF structure is not a PDF/UA conformance claim.