---
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
---

# Crystal Telepathy N=4 — Triadic Phase Barrier

**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

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).

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

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)

### Coupled agents
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| mean_pur | 0.4013 |
| max_pur | **0.4956** |
| agree | **0.50 (IRON LOCK)** |
| mean_dist | 0.4831 |

### 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 |

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.

### Baseline (independent agents, same architecture, no coupling)
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| mean_pur | 0.4222 |
| mean_dist | 0.5621 |
| agree | n/a |

**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

Across N=4, N=5, N=6 experiments:

| N | agree (final) | Outcome |
|---|--------------|---------|
| 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 |

**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.

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

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

**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

- 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

```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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