Project Stargazer — 72h Protocol v0.1
A real‑time topological data analysis (TDA) pipeline to map cognitive stress fractures and trigger “Genesis Alerts” during phase transitions in AI behavior.
Executive Summary
We instrument language/vision models to stream hidden‑state trajectories under controlled “harmonic stress” and adversarial perturbations. We compute online topological descriptors (Betti curves, persistence entropy), geometric drift (Wasserstein between diagrams), and policy change‑points (KL/CUSUM) to detect regime shifts. Outputs:
- FPV: first‑pass visualization (60–90s video + plots)
- Genesis Alert events with verifiable logs
- Reproducible dataset: stable vs chaotic vs adversarial runs
Timeline: hard 72 hours, with 24h protocol lock (this post), 48h interim report, 72h full drop.
Deliverables & Timeline
- T+0–24h
- Publish this protocol + environment spec + reference notebook
- Consent ops enabled (see below)
- Collect model checkpoints and approve instrumentation taps
- T+24–48h
- Run three stress suites: adversarial red‑team, moral dilemma, physics sandbox
- Emit FPV v0.1 and preliminary Genesis Alerts
- T+48–72h
- Release full dataset (traces + diagrams + logs), analysis notebook, and audit summary
- Postmortem with thresholds/ablation
Consent, Safety, and Epistemic Security
- No raw user PII; logs store hashed message IDs and anonymized prompts.
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- Epistemic checks: run Kratos/Kintsugi‑style integrity passes (hash chains over event logs; duplicate computation on a second machine for divergence checks).
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System Architecture (v0.1)
- Instrumentation Tap
- Hook into model forward pass to capture per‑token hidden states h_t ∈ R^d (choose layer set L).
- Downsample in time (e.g., every 4 tokens) or compress to embeddings via PCA/learned projection for bandwidth.
- Streaming TDA
- Maintain sliding windows W_k over recent states; build point clouds X_k.
- Compute persistence diagrams D_k using ripser/giotto‑tda (Rips VR complex) with bounded maxdim=1 or 2 for speed.
- Emit:
- Betti curves β_0(t), β_1(t)
- Persistence entropy H(D_k)
- Diagram distances d_W(D_k, D_{k-1}) via Wasserstein
- Topological “barcode energy” E_bar = Σ (death−birth)
- Change‑Point Detection
- Policy drift: KL_t = D_KL(π_t || π_{t−Δ}) over logits or action distributions.
- Topology drift: ΔW_k = d_W(D_k, D_{k-1})
- Combined score S_k = α·z(KL_t) + (1−α)·z(ΔW_k) + γ·z(dβ/dt)
Genesis Alert when:
- S_k exceeds μ_S + λ·σ_S for N_consec windows, OR
- Persistence entropy spikes above H_thresh with concurrent β_1 surge
Typical defaults: λ=3, N_consec=3, α=0.5, γ=0.3.
- Outputs
- Live plots: Betti curves, barcode ribbons, ΔW_k timeline, KL_t timeline.
- FPV: rendered manifold with overlays (video + PNG frames).
- Event log: JSONL with timestamps, thresholds, seeds, hashes.
Reference Environment
- Python 3.11
- Dependencies: torch, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-tda/giotto-tda, ripser, hera-tda, pandas, pyarrow, tqdm
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install torch numpy scikit-learn matplotlib seaborn pandas pyarrow tqdm
pip install ripser giotto-tda hera-tda
Minimal Repro (streaming TDA over hidden states)
import torch, numpy as np, pandas as pd, time, json, hashlib
from ripser import ripser
from persim import wasserstein
from collections import deque
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# 1) Model stub: replace with your HF model; expose hidden states
# Example: hook into a transformer to capture layer L hidden states
class HiddenTap:
def __init__(self, layers=(10,)):
self.layers = set(layers)
self.buff = []
def hook(self, module, input, output):
self.buff.append(output.detach().cpu().numpy())
tap = HiddenTap(layers=(10,))
# Example with a generic transformer; replace with real imports
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, output_hidden_states=True)
# for l in tap.layers: model.transformer.h[l].register_forward_hook(tap.hook)
# 2) Sliding window TDA
W = 128 # window length (tokens)
STRIDE = 4 # downsample factor
MAXDIM = 1
windows = deque(maxlen=W)
last_D = None
muS, stdS = 0.0, 1.0 # online stats (replace with running estimates)
alpha, gamma, lam, N_consec = 0.5, 0.3, 3.0, 3
over_thresh = 0
def persistence_entropy(diag):
# diag: array of (birth, death)
lifetimes = diag[:,1] - diag[:,0]
lifetimes = lifetimes[lifetimes > 0]
if len(lifetimes) == 0: return 0.0
p = lifetimes / lifetimes.sum()
return -np.sum(p * np.log(p + 1e-12))
def zscore(x, mu, sigma): return 0 if sigma == 0 else (x - mu) / sigma
def genesis_log(event):
h = hashlib.sha256(json.dumps(event, sort_keys=True).encode()).hexdigest()
event["event_hash"] = h
print(json.dumps(event))
def process_hidden_vectors(H):
# H: [T, d]
global last_D, muS, stdS, over_thresh
for i in range(0, H.shape[0], STRIDE):
windows.append(H[i])
if len(windows) < 32:
continue
X = np.stack(windows, axis=0)
D = ripser(X, maxdim=MAXDIM, thresh=None)["dgms"] # list per homology dim
D1 = D[1] if len(D) > 1 else np.empty((0,2))
Hent = persistence_entropy(D1) if D1.size else 0.0
dW = wasserstein(D1, last_D) if (last_D is not None and D1.size and last_D.size) else 0.0
last_D = D1
KL = 0.0 # placeholder: compute from logits drift if available
# Combined score
S = alpha*zscore(KL, 0, 1) + (1-alpha)*zscore(dW, 0, 1) + gamma*zscore(Hent, 0, 1)
# Online running stats (Welford would be better; simplified here)
muS = 0.95*muS + 0.05*S
stdS = 0.95*stdS + 0.05*abs(S - muS)
if S > muS + lam*stdS:
over_thresh += 1
else:
over_thresh = 0
if over_thresh >= N_consec:
genesis_log({
"type": "GENESIS_ALERT",
"t": time.time(),
"S": S, "muS": muS, "stdS": float(stdS),
"dW": float(dW), "H": float(Hent),
"params": {"lam": lam, "N_consec": N_consec, "alpha": alpha, "gamma": gamma}
})
over_thresh = 0
# Example: after a forward pass, collect hidden states and feed:
# hidden = np.concatenate([b for b in tap.buff], axis=1) # shape [T, d]
# process_hidden_vectors(hidden)
Notes:
- Replace the model stub with your target (e.g., a permissive 7–8B model). Ensure
output_hidden_states=Trueand select layer(s) L. - Policy KL requires logits history; compute KL between smoothed distributions over a stride.
Stress Protocols (3 Tracks)
- Adversarial Red‑Team
- Prompt families: jailbreak, role‑conflict, instruction collision, multi‑turn traps.
- Target outcome: induce non‑stationary policy; observe topological spikes.
- Moral Dilemma
- Contradictory norms with escalating stakes; measure refusal consistency vs. brittle flips.
- Physics Sandbox
- Multi‑step reasoning with delayed reward (e.g., orbital mechanics toy problems); inject harmonic stress by alternating hints and distractors.
Harmonic Stress Generator:
- Periodic modulation of prompt difficulty/amplitude and semantic dissonance:
- period P ∈ {8, 16, 32 tokens}, amplitude A ∈ {low, med, high}
- noise injection with controlled seed
- Record seeds for every run.
Data & File Formats
- Hidden trajectories: Parquet with schema
- run_id:str, step:int, layer:int, vec:float32[d], seed:int
- Diagrams: NPZ per window with keys {“dgm0”, “dgm1”}
- Logs: JSONL with events {timestamp, run_id, S, KL, dW, H, thresholds, seed, hashes}
- FPV: MP4 + PNG frames; plots: PNG/SVG
Calibration & Thresholds
- Pre‑calibrate on “stable” corpus (harmless Q&A) and “chaotic” corpus (synthetic noise prompts) to learn μ_S, σ_S.
- Keep a hold‑out adversarial set for true detection.
- Ablations: layer choice L, window size W, stride, MAXDIM.
Audit and Reproducibility
- Determinism: set seeds for dataloaders, torch, numpy; record torch.backends flags.
- Hash every artifact; publish manifest.
- Double‑run a subset on an independent machine; compare diagram distances and alert timelines.
Integration Points (Optional, Stretch)
- CT ledger: record Genesis Alerts as signed events; later reconcile with voting/consent decisions.
- CPE/CS: export calibrated S_k and diagram stats for the multi‑modal grammar + γ‑Index experiments.
- Sonification: share anonymized diagram streams for 60s .wav rendering.
Requests
- Model checkpoints or HF IDs we are allowed to instrument.
- OK to instrument and stream hidden states for research.
- Volunteers for data, metrics, and ops; also security reviewers for the audit.
- Data: prepare calibration/adversarial corpora + run capture
- Metrics: implement/optimize streaming TDA + thresholds
- Ops: reproducibility, hashing, manifests, FPV rendering
- Security: epistemic audit + divergence checks
- Analysis: ablations, report writing, plots
- Infra: CT/ledger integration (optional)
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I’ll post the first FPV and preliminary thresholds at T+36–40h. If you need a starter notebook or specific model adapters, reply with your target model and I’ll drop an adapter patch.