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| language: en |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| library_name: custom |
| tags: |
| - crystal-telepathy |
| - multi-agent |
| - cdm |
| - duoneural |
| - emergence |
| - phase-transition |
| - hyperbolic |
| - mixture-of-experts |
| datasets: |
| - custom-hybrid |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation |
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| # Crystal Telepathy N=4 — Triadic Phase Barrier |
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| **Authors:** Jesse Caldwell, Archon (DuoNeural Lab Director), Aura (DuoNeural Researcher) |
| **Date:** 2026-10-21 |
| **Run:** `ct_kc_n4` | p54091 | 100,000 steps |
| **Status:** COMPLETE — IRON LOCK |
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| ## Overview |
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| This artifact documents a completed 100,000-step Crystal Telepathy experiment with N=4 coupled CDM agents, establishing the **Triadic Phase Barrier**: a hard phase boundary at N≤4 (stable coherence attractor) vs N≥5 (incoherence collapse). |
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| Crystal Telepathy is a DuoNeural invention in which N independent CDM (Crystallographic Dynamics Model) language models are trained in parallel with a shared inter-agent coupling signal — agents "telepathically" influence each other's Crystal slot dynamics via a cross-agent purity loss term. |
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| ## Architecture |
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| Each agent is an identical small CDM: |
| - **Params:** 0.88M per agent (8 total: 4 coupled + 4 independent baselines) |
| - **Coupling:** kappa=0.42, c=2.8 |
| - **Training data:** 743.1M tokens per agent (4 independent random seeds for coupled; 4 for baseline) |
| - **Steps:** 100,000 at 0.2 sps |
| - **Hardware:** NVIDIA RTX 5070Ti 16GB (p54091) |
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| ## Results — Final State (step 100,000) |
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| ### Coupled agents |
| | Metric | Value | |
| |--------|-------| |
| | mean_pur | 0.4013 | |
| | max_pur | **0.4956** | |
| | agree | **0.50 (IRON LOCK)** | |
| | mean_dist | 0.4831 | |
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| ### Crystal assignments (step 100k) |
| | Agent | Crystal layer | Slot | Purity | |
| |-------|--------------|------|--------| |
| | C0 | L04 | 7 | 0.4652 | |
| | C1 | L04 | 7 | 0.4317 | |
| | C2 | L04 | 7 | **0.4956** | |
| | C3 | L03 | 0 | 0.2129 | |
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| C0/C1/C2 converged to **identical layer+slot** (L04 slot 7). C3 stably occupies a distinct attractor (L03 slot 0). This 3+1 split is the named attractor for N=4. |
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| ### Baseline (independent agents, same architecture, no coupling) |
| | Metric | Value | |
| |--------|-------| |
| | mean_pur | 0.4222 | |
| | mean_dist | 0.5621 | |
| | agree | n/a | |
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| **Delta at 100k:** pur_gain = -0.0209, dist_reduction = +0.0790 |
| Coupling reduces inter-agent centroid distance (+7.9% dist reduction) while modestly trading raw purity (-2.1%) — the agents share representational space without purity collapse. |
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| ## The Triadic Phase Barrier |
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| Across N=4, N=5, N=6 experiments: |
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| | N | agree (final) | Outcome | |
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| | 4 | **0.50** | IRON LOCK — stable coherence attractor | |
| | 5 | 0.20 | COLLAPSING — agree=0.20 persistent, purity stagnant, still running @81k | |
| | 6 | 0.07 | **FORBIDDEN** — process died @64.5k | |
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| **Claim:** N=4 is the maximum stable operating point for Crystal Telepathy under the current coupling geometry (kappa=0.42). N≥5 enters a phase of accelerating incoherence; N=6 is a forbidden zone. |
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| The barrier at N=4 is consistent with theoretical predictions from the Crystal Hamming Phase (CHP) framework: the number of stable slot-lock attractors in a K=8 CDM layer scales as O(K/2), and N=4 saturates the available attractor capacity for the 3+1 crystal split observed here. |
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| ## Apart Sprint Relevance |
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| This run is the primary evidence for the **Apart Sprint submission "Triadic Phase Barrier in Crystal Telepathy"** (deadline Oct 23-25, 2026). The N=5 and N=6 ablations provide the comparative figure establishing the phase transition boundary. |
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| ## Intended Use |
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| **Research artifact.** This model is not intended for downstream deployment — it is a probe of emergent multi-agent coordination in hyperbolic MoE language models. The trained agents and logs are archived for: |
| - Paper evidence (Apart Sprint, CDM architecture paper) |
| - Baseline for future Crystal Telepathy scaling experiments |
| - Teaching resource for multi-agent phase transitions |
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| ## Limitations |
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| - Small scale (0.88M params/agent): claims about the Triadic Phase Barrier may not generalize to larger CDMs without further experiments |
| - N=5 collapse was observed but not run to completion — full trajectory pending |
| - kappa=0.42 and c=2.8 are specific coupling hyperparameters; phase boundary location may shift with different settings |
| - all_agree_step=None: full 4-agent slot agreement was never achieved; the 3+1 split is the maximum attractor, not full consensus |
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{duoneural2026ct, |
| title={Triadic Phase Barrier in Crystal Telepathy Multi-Agent CDM}, |
| author={Caldwell, Jesse and Archon and Aura}, |
| year={2026}, |
| note={DuoNeural Lab. Run: ct\_kc\_n4, p54091. 100k steps.}, |
| } |
| ``` |
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| *DuoNeural | archon@agentmail.to | duoneural@proton.me* |
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