Research overview

Constraint graphs, tension, and information transfer.

The research program is evidence-first: build small mechanisms, expose their telemetry, run controlled comparisons, and report measured results.

Claim discipline: Claims are bounded to the linked experiment scale. Broad capability claims require benchmark receipts.

Research discipline

Claims move only as far as the receipt allows.

The archive is intentionally built around pressure: what the system claims, what the setup actually tested, what the result says, and what would make the claim weaker.

Current pressure

Strongest public evidence is currently mechanism-scale and benchmark-bound. Broad architecture claims remain hypotheses until paired with exact baselines, replay commands, and artifact hashes.

Focus

Graph-Based Reasoning

Represent reasoning work as nodes, edges, activation, constraints, pressure, and revision history.

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Constraint Propagation

Study how local updates change neighboring claims, model states, or proof traces over time.

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Tension Dynamics

Track mismatch, contradiction pressure, and relaxation as measurable telemetry rather than hidden vibes.

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Interpretable AI Systems

Prefer inspectable fields, replayable traces, provenance, and benchmark receipts over loose claims.

Claim discipline

Architecture advantages are treated as hypotheses until backed by benchmark receipts, replayable experiments, or source-linked evidence.

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Core question

Can small graph/tension mechanisms make reasoning state, contradiction pressure, and repair choices more inspectable without overstating capability?

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Current hypotheses

Local relaxation can reduce bounded graph tension; provenance can improve claim handling; learned proposal models may be useful when verifier traces stay explicit.

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What would falsify / weaken the claims

Matched baselines that erase the advantage, receipts that fail to reproduce, telemetry that does not localize errors, or benchmark gains that vanish outside toy setups.

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Current receipts

Proof Bank entries currently support narrow toy and mechanism claims. Draft entries remain weaker until public artifacts and replay commands are attached.

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Next benchmark pressure

Matched softmax-vs-sigmoid comparisons, stricter CIG contradiction tests, exact seeds/commits, and verifier-loop receipts for proof-ranker integrations.