"""Exact polynomial echo certificate and bounded self-application demo. The closure is classical constrained polynomial lumping (CLUE), reimplemented here to expose exactly which optimizer variables a compressor must retain. This is not a demonstration of open-ended recursive self-improvement. """ from __future__ import annotations import csv import json import hashlib import sys from fractions import Fraction as F from pathlib import Path import numpy as np ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] OUT = ROOT / "results" def rref(rows, n): """Exact rational row basis, with pivot columns.""" a = [[F(v) for v in row] for row in rows if any(row)] k, piv = 0, [] for j in range(n): p = next((i for i in range(k, len(a)) if a[i][j]), None) if p is None: continue a[k], a[p] = a[p], a[k] z = a[k][j] a[k] = [v/z for v in a[k]] for i in range(len(a)): if i != k and a[i][j]: z = a[i][j] a[i] = [v-z*w for v, w in zip(a[i], a[k])] piv.append(j) k += 1 if k == len(a): break return a[:k], piv def jacobian_coefficients(polys, n): """Matrices M_alpha in D Psi(x) = sum_alpha M_alpha x^alpha.""" mats = {} m = len(polys) for i, poly in enumerate(polys): for powers, coeff in poly.items(): for j, power in enumerate(powers): if power: alpha = list(powers) alpha[j] -= 1 key = tuple(alpha) mat = mats.setdefault(key, [[F(0) for _ in range(n)] for _ in range(m)]) mat[i][j] += F(coeff)*power return mats def closure(polys, observables, initial_rows, n): matrices = list(jacobian_coefficients(polys, n).values()) rows = list(initial_rows) for mat in jacobian_coefficients(observables, n).values(): rows.extend(mat) rows, piv = rref(rows, n) ranks = [len(rows)] while True: more = list(rows) for mat in matrices: more.extend([[sum(row[k]*mat[k][j] for k in range(n)) for j in range(n)] for row in rows]) new, piv = rref(more, n) if len(new) == len(rows): break rows = new ranks.append(len(rows)) return rows, piv, ranks def mono(n, **powers): p = [0]*n for index, exponent in powers.items(): p[int(index)] = exponent return tuple(p) def self_application_polys(n=8): # x' = x - a*x; a' = a+b-a*b; b' = 2*b-b*b. polys = [ {mono(n, **{'0':1}):1, mono(n, **{'0':1, '1':1}):-1}, {mono(n, **{'1':1}):1, mono(n, **{'2':1}):1, mono(n, **{'1':1, '2':1}):-1}, {mono(n, **{'2':1}):2, mono(n, **{'2':2}):-1}, ] for j in range(3, n): polys.append({mono(n, **{str(j):1}):F(1,2)}) return polys def evaluate(polys, state): return np.array([sum(float(c)*np.prod([state[j]**p for j,p in enumerate(powers) if p]) for powers,c in poly.items()) for poly in polys], dtype=float) def step3(state): x,a,b=state return np.array([(1-a)*x, a+b*(1-a), b+b*(1-b)]) def exact_checks(): n=8 polys=self_application_polys(n) obs=[{mono(n, **{'0':1}):1}] rows,piv,ranks=closure(polys,obs,[],n) assert piv==[0,1,2] and ranks==[1,2,3] # Every coefficient matrix preserves the certificate rowspace. for mat in jacobian_coefficients(polys,n).values(): for row in rows: product=[sum(row[k]*mat[k][j] for k in range(n)) for j in range(n)] assert all(product[j]==0 for j in range(3,n)) # Nonlinear square-shift: local first-order output probes miss every echo. h=5; m=h+1 chain=[{mono(m, **{str(j+1):2}):1} for j in range(h)] chain.append({mono(m, **{str(h):1}):1}) _,chain_piv,chain_ranks=closure(chain,[{mono(m, **{'0':1}):1}],[],m) assert chain_piv==list(range(m)) and chain_ranks==list(range(1,m+1)) v=np.zeros(m); v[-1]=0.8 w=v.copy() for _ in range(h): w=evaluate(chain,w) assert abs(w[0]-0.8**(2**h))<1e-15 # Exact rank-one edit example: Vandermonde with rational eigenvalues. d=6 lam=[F(i+1, 2*(d+1)) for i in range(d)] e=[F(1)]+[F(0)]*(d-1) b=[F(0)]+[F(1)]*(d-1) vand=[e]+[[b[i]*lam[i]**k for i in range(d)] for k in range(d-1)] rank=len(rref(vand,d)[0]) assert rank==d # Spherical diagonal chain-level exactness in degree zero. dim=3 eta=np.vstack([np.eye(dim),np.eye(dim)]) difference=np.hstack([-np.eye(dim),np.eye(dim)]) assert np.linalg.norm(difference@eta)==0 assert np.linalg.matrix_rank(eta)==dim assert np.linalg.matrix_rank(difference)==dim # Counit of diagonal/direct-sum adjunction has kernel (V,U). u,v=2,3 counit=np.zeros((u+v,2*(u+v))) counit[:u,:u]=np.eye(u) counit[u:,u+v+u:]=np.eye(v) assert 2*(u+v)-np.linalg.matrix_rank(counit)==u+v return { 'exact_polynomial_certificate': {'ambient_dimension':n,'retained_dimension':len(rows), 'rank_trace':ranks,'pivot_coordinates':['task_error','learning_rule','improvement_rule']}, 'square_shift': {'depth':h,'response_degree':2**h,'rank_trace':chain_ranks, 'b':0.8,'future_response':float(w[0]),'derivatives_below_degree_are_zero':True}, 'rank_one_edit': {'dimension':d,'exact_certificate_rank_after_edit':rank, 'exact_certificate_rank_before_edit':1}, 'diagonal_chain_checks':'passed; finite-dimensional identities, not formal verification of the infinity-categorical theorem', } def run_demo(): OUT.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True) checks=exact_checks() # Final evaluation seeds and distributions fixed before running. n=64; steps=8; all_rows=[]; finals={} methods=['full','echo_3','task_rule_2','task_only_1','frozen_improver','frozen_learner','oracle_step_1'] trajectory_error=0.0; formula_error=0.0 for seed in range(32): rng=np.random.default_rng(12000+seed) x0=float(rng.uniform(0.5,2.0)); a0=float(rng.uniform(0.02,0.15)); b0=float(rng.uniform(0.02,0.15)) initial=np.r_[x0,a0,b0,rng.normal(size=n-3)] states={m:initial[:3].copy() for m in methods} states['task_rule_2'][2]=0.0 states['task_only_1'][1:]=0.0 full=initial.copy() for t in range(steps+1): formula=x0*(1-a0)**t*(1-b0)**(2**t-1-t) formula_error=max(formula_error,abs(states['full'][0]-formula)) for method in methods: x,a,b=states[method] all_rows.append({'seed':seed,'generation':t,'method':method, 'task_error':float(x),'loss':float(0.5*x*x), 'learner_gain':float(a),'improver_gain':float(b)}) if t==steps: finals.setdefault(method,[]).append(float(0.5*x*x)) trajectory_error=max(trajectory_error,float(np.max(np.abs(states['full']-states['echo_3'])))) if t==steps: break full[:3]=step3(full[:3]); full[3:]*=0.5 states['full']=full[:3].copy() states['echo_3']=step3(states['echo_3']) temp=np.r_[states['task_rule_2'][:2],0.0] states['task_rule_2']=step3(temp); states['task_rule_2'][2]=0.0 states['task_only_1']=np.array([states['task_only_1'][0],0.0,0.0]) x,a,b=states['frozen_improver'] states['frozen_improver']=np.array([(1-a)*x,a+b0*(1-a),b0]) x,a,b=states['frozen_learner'] states['frozen_learner']=np.array([(1-a0)*x,a0,b0]) states['oracle_step_1']=np.array([0.0,1.0,1.0]) with (OUT/'self_application_trajectories.csv').open('w',newline='') as f: writer=csv.DictWriter(f,fieldnames=list(all_rows[0]));writer.writeheader();writer.writerows(all_rows) summary={ 'status':'Engineered scalar self-application sanity experiment; not autonomous discovery, not LLM RSI.', 'environment':{'python':sys.version,'numpy':np.__version__}, 'source_sha256':hashlib.sha256(Path(__file__).read_bytes()).hexdigest(), 'seed_count':32,'seed_range':[12000,12031],'generations':steps, 'ambient_state_coordinates':n,'retained_state_coordinates':3, 'maximum_full_echo_trajectory_absolute_error':trajectory_error, 'maximum_closed_form_absolute_error':formula_error, 'mean_final_loss':{m:float(np.mean(v)) for m,v in finals.items()}, 'median_final_loss':{m:float(np.median(v)) for m,v in finals.items()}, 'oracle_limitation':'A known unit step solves this unit-curvature quadratic in one update. The prototype does not outperform it.', 'storage_limitation':'Coordinate counts exclude encoders, code, certificates, and data. No hardware speedup claimed.', 'exact_checks':checks, } assert trajectory_error<1e-14 and formula_error<1e-12 (OUT/'self_application_summary.json').write_text(json.dumps(summary,indent=2)+'\n') print(json.dumps(summary,indent=2)) if __name__=='__main__': run_demo()