Foundational manuscript
Collective-State Inference: A Computational Organization Theory for Collective-Aware Artificial Intelligence
Collective-State Inference: A Computational Organization Theory for Collective-Aware Artificial Intelligence develops CSI as a general, level-aware computational organization theory of collective-state estimation. The manuscript is unpublished and currently under journal consideration. It has not yet undergone external peer review, and CSI has not yet been empirically validated. The revised framing explicitly distinguishes CSI from existing computational work on group and collective states rather than claiming priority simply for treating collective states as computational targets.