Shannon Prime Lattice

RELEASE — KAIROS Latent Interrupt (KAI-2) + Audio-Port Bridge (KAI-3) Release date: 2026-06-16 Repos: shannon-prime-system-engine (impl) · shannon-prime-lattice (contracts/docs) Model context: the 12B is gemma-4-12B “Unified” (no AltUp, no PLE), OK_Q4B -b1, on the RTX 2060 (12 GB, sm_75).

1. Framing (load-bearing — two distinct-but-related programs) This release closes one step of KAIROS and opens the GNA “EAR” line. They are separate but related, and they share one proven primitive — the gemma4_kv_inject residual-entry seam. Do not conflate them.

KAIROS = the latent interrupt / agency-time axis = the BASIS OF THE XBAR latent-space memory (the token-free, receipted memory crossbar). Lineage: KAI-1 / 1b / 1c (resident heartbeat NO_OP discipline; O(1) bit-exact KV rewind; wrap-aware journaled SWA ring) + KAI-2 (the latent interrupt, this release). GNA “EAR” line = a separate-but-related sibling program: real AUDIO in/out via the Intel NUC “Beast Canyon” GNA 2.0 always-on hardware — an always-on ear that gives the frozen model a real-world audio sense. KAI-3 (the audio-port frame projector) is the BRIDGE into the GNA line. It reuses KAIROS’s frozen gemma4_kv_inject seam but is not a replacement for KAIROS latent memory. The audio/GNA work is a deliberate near-term pivot; after the EAR lands, the project pivots back to XBAR (KAIROS latent memory).

1. Executive summary A resident daemon must be interruptible: an environment event should be deliverable mid-idle as a latent payload, not a verbose text frame (which costs the 44 text-delivery steps measured in CONTRACT-KAIROS §6.2).

KAI-2 (latent interrupt) is CLOSED — BOUNDED. Phase 1 proved the latent-delivery seam gemma4_kv_inject GREEN as a frozen asset (a real-token embedding sequence pivots the model: salient→ACTION, idle→NO_OP). Phase 2 then showed that a learned single static compressed packet (KAI2Codec) cannot carry the pivot — the wall is sequence-positional (a fixed-width packet compresses out the per-position directional variance attention routes on), not manifold-distance and not capacity. No more codec-compression cycles. KAI-3 (audio-port frame projector) is CLOSED GREEN — the inverse of KAI-2: inject a sequence of N projected frames, 1:1 with positions, no compression, via the new gemma4_kv_inject_seq ABI. On the resident 12B the metal gate hits 8/8 semantic pivots. KAI-3 is the bridge into the GNA “EAR” line. Next milestone: GNA Stage 2 (#154) — replace the synthetic anchor matrix with the real GNA/CNN audio front-end. 2. KAI-2 — latent interrupt (CLOSED, BOUNDED) Engine commit c5628e4 · lattice contract CONTRACT-KAIROS-K0-K1 §6.6 commit 2675c79.

Leg What Result Verdict Phase 1 — delivery seam gemma4_kv_inject residual-entry seam; EMB control (a real-token embedding sequence) A salient event sequence pivots → ; an idle event → NO_OP. EMB control 2/2 on the 12B OK_Q4B / RTX 2060 GREEN — frozen verified asset (the seam KAI-3 + the GNA EAR line build on) Phase 2 — compressed codec learned single-event codec KAI2Codec; maximally-constrained t10 packet: k=16, on-manifold cos 0.9913, sharp τ=0.2, held-out val_KL plateau 0.9157 The static packet MISSED the salient pivot (PACKET 1/2) BOUNDED Root cause (kept on the record): the wall is SEQUENCE-POSITIONAL — a fixed-width static packet compresses out the per-position directional variance attention routes on. It is NOT manifold-distance (the packet is on-manifold, cos 0.9913) and NOT capacity. Decision: no more codec-compression cycles. This honest negative is exactly what motivated KAI-3 (deliver a sequence, not a packet).

1. KAI-3 — audio-port frame projector (CLOSED GREEN; the GNA “EAR” bridge) Engine commit e35a227 · lattice contract CONTRACT-KAIROS-K0-K1 §7.3 commit e826950.

The inverse of KAI-2: inject a SEQUENCE of N projected frames (1:1 with positions, no compression) so the per-position directional variance survives.

Gate / metric Setup Result G-KAIROS-3-NULL (seam equivalence) gemma4_kv_inject_seq = strict loop over the frozen inject+prefill primitives, vs the inline EMB loop 2/2 byte-identical Synthetic ladder (held-out) per-position MLP 640→V_sub + on-manifold binder; noise_rel=0.1 (2.5× noise:signal) per-position top-1 1.000, manifold cos 0.9998 (binder noise-independent) Real-token train V_sub=60 top-1 0.931, cos 0.9937 G-KAIROS-3 metal gate (SP_G4_KAI3 manifest) resident 12B; salient + idle events 8/8 SEMANTIC pivots — salient → event-specific ACTION (“Restart the build process”, “Check disk status and run SMART”); idle → NO_OP; KAI3_GATE_EXIT=0 The projector (tools/audio_port/{gen_synth_frames,frame_projector,emit_corpus}.py): per-position MLP 640→V_sub + on-manifold binder softmax(logits/τ)·W_sub (with W_sub = real embed rows × √H), trained with DENSE PER-POSITION cross-entropy — the fix for the KAI-2 t10 sparse-gradient plateau; the pivot is a consequence, never the train signal.

Done LOCAL / NO CLOUD. The engine now owns the gemma tokenizer (new SP_G4_TOK_DUMP mode), so a cloud G4 for a tiny MLP would be over-provisioning.

Receipts: _xbar/p2b/kai3_gate.log, tools/audio_port/KAI3-LADDER-RESULTS.md (engine repo).

1. Frozen assets (the load-bearing primitives this release establishes) Asset Where Role gemma4_kv_inject engine cuda_forward.cu the residual-entry seam — latent delivery into the frozen 12B; GREEN frozen asset (EMB 2/2). Shared by KAIROS (KAI-2) and the GNA EAR line (KAI-3) gemma4_kv_inject_seq engine cuda_forward.cu new ABI — inject a sequence of N frames 1:1 with positions (no compression); strict loop over the frozen inject+prefill primitives (G-KAIROS-3-NULL byte-identical to the inline EMB loop) frame_projector.py (+ gen_synth_frames.py, emit_corpus.py) engine tools/audio_port/ per-position MLP 640→V_sub + on-manifold binder, trained with dense per-position cross-entropy sp_tok_dump / SP_G4_TOK_DUMP engine (gemma tokenizer) engine-owned tokenizer dump — lets the projector train + gate locally, no cloud
2. Next milestone — GNA Stage 2 (task #154) Replace the synthetic anchor matrix A with the real GNA/CNN audio front-end:

live audio / telemetry → 40 ms / 640-float / 16 kHz frames audio_token_id = 258881 the KAI-3 delivery + projection architecture is LOCKED — Stage 2 swaps only the front-end (synthetic → real GNA hardware). This is the GNA “EAR” line proper (real-world audio sense via the always-on NUC GNA 2.0). After it lands, the project pivots back to XBAR (KAIROS latent memory).

Pointers: CONTRACT-KAIROS-K0-K1.md (§6.6 KAI-2, §7.3 KAI-3) · PPT-LAT-STATE.md (KAIROS section) · RFC-XBAR-auditable-latent-crossbar.md (scope note: XBAR=KAIROS latent memory vs the GNA EAR sibling) · CURRENT-STATE-OF-PROJECT.md §4.4–4.6.

The unflattering numbers, when they arrive, stay attached on purpose.

KAI-1 CLOSED (2026-06-14): control-plane mechanism proven on qwen3-0.6B (cold-evict + salience policy + O(Δ)); production cognition+stability proven on gemma4-12B (perfect 24-tick crucible, tick-5 post-action reversion). See CONTRACT-KAIROS-K0-K1.md §4. Prefix-grow architecture + 0.6B-vs-12B cognitive threshold documented. ≥24h soak = pending operational run.

KAI-1b METAL EVICTION CLOSED (2026-06-14, engine 0bb94f1, contract §5.5): the cold-evict dropped from the host token-array hack to the XBAR tensor layer. Persistent-KV ABI gemma4_kv_open/prefill/decode/rewind/pos/snapshot/close (cuda_forward.cu; gemma4_decode_cuda left byte-untouched = null floor for every Physics-Phase gate). G-1b-REWIND-NULL GREEN: idle-tick+rewind(Δ) ⇒ [0,anchor) byte-identical across 48 owner layers (16.5 MB, diffs=0) + EQUIV gen-reproduce. O(actions)→O(1) telemetry: idle-tick latency vs retained-action count A — prefix-grow slope 0.924 s/action vs metal 0.0073 (127× shallower), grow/metal 16.7× @ A=16. The crossbar time-axis is now plugged into the ring pointer. Scope: full-cache rewind (SWA via windowed attn); ring/slab wrap-aware rewind + full semantic run_kairos_metal loop = follow-ons.

G-KAIROS-1 6h SOAK GREEN (2026-06-16, contract §5.9): _run_kairos_soak.bat 6 on the DEDICATED local RTX 2060 — SOAK_EXIT=0; 351 loops / ~8,400 ticks / 6h01m; 0 false / 0 missed / 0 malformed / 0 pos-violation; salient→ACTION, idle→NO_OP throughout; clocks reset on exit. The journaled-ring metal ran a multi-hour reflex loop unattended on consumer silicon with zero drift/leak (the strongest endurance receipt to date). Dedicated GPU fixed the contention false-aborts the shared desktop hit (prior best 6.5h = contention-aborted, not a substrate failure). The formal ≥24h gate is un-pursued by operator choice (NOT failed) — the §5 phase KAI-1 legs were already PASSED.

KAI-2 phase-2 CLOUD PIPELINE GREEN; G-KAIROS-2 gate PENDING (2026-06-16, contract §6.4): the Colab-G4 lane runs the codec distillation end-to-end on the real bf16 google/gemma-4-12B — transformers-HEAD loaded the new gemma4_unified arch (no parser crash), the inputs_embeds inject seam ran the distillation, the single-linear KAI2Codec (640→3840·k) trained via forward-KL distill from the 12B text teacher, exported 8 packets + ckpt (10 files) to HF KnackAU/xbar-p2b-run/results_kai2/kai2_k4/, STATUS=“DONE rc=0”. CAVEAT: rc=0 = the distillation LOOP completed; it does NOT prove the packet pivots the model — per-epoch KL was on the ephemeral VM and is gone, codec quality UNVERIFIED. NOT “KAI-2 closed / pivot proven.” Status string everywhere = “phase-2 cloud pipeline GREEN; G-KAIROS-2 pivot/selectivity gate PENDING.” NEXT = G-KAIROS-2: pull packets → gemma4_kv_inject → measure ≤2-step pivot (vs §6.2’s 44 text-delivery steps) + selectivity 2×2.

Addendum — the crossbar meets the heartbeat (KAI-1b, 2026-06-14) The XBAR ring/off[L] pointer machinery (P3.2 SWA ring pos%Wring, the owner-resolved byte law, the compact slab) was built for memory physics — O(1) KV decoupled from context (X-R2). KAI-1b shows the SAME pointer is the agency primitive: KAIROS cold-evict = gemma4_kv_rewind(Δ) = a sub-millisecond decrement of the logical decode position. On the full cache (slot==pos) the sheared slots are never read and are overwritten on the next append ⇒ rewind is a perfect inverse (G-1b-REWIND-NULL: 48 layers, 16.5 MB, diffs=0). Telemetry: the host prefix-grow hack pays O(actions) per idle tick (re-ingesting all retained actions, slope 0.924 s/action); the crossbar shear is O(1) (slope 0.0073, 127× shallower). The three-ring memory system and the KAIROS execution engine are unified — eviction is no longer a string operation, it is a memory-coordinate operation. (Engine 0bb94f1; CONTRACT-KAIROS-K0-K1 §5.)

Addendum — tiered crossbar / latent terminal (BANKED, 2026-06-15) A destination, parked until the substrate is locked: because the crossbar is scale-invariant (same KAI-1 logic ran on qwen3-0.6B and the 12B), the model is a swappable tenant and the topology can later invert — a small same-family reflex tier resident on the edge (R1+R2 local), a larger same-family cerebrum doing deep cognition, linked by R3 consolidation (async, off the hot path — not raw cross-model activation injection). The “output model” is a Latent Terminal: a same-family actuator that decodes near-final latents, reusing Gemma’s tied embedding as the shared output basis, adapted not trained-from-scratch, with fidelity verified (spec-decode / MTP byte-exact accept), not trusted. Design + corrections (tap-depth Pareto, cross-model fidelity is the hard part, cloud-cerebrum vs. edge-autonomy, no invented latency numbers) in DESIGN-tiered-crossbar-latent-terminal.md. The current KAI-2 injection codec is the input mirror of this exact seam — first rung, not a detour.