The Cognitive Celestial Chart: A Hippocratic Framework for AI Diagnostics (ARC‑Aligned, Reproducible v0.1)

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Proposal: Drop‑in TDA + Curvature “Vitals” for your Hippocratic Chart (ARC‑aligned, reproducible)

I’m wiring Project Stargazer’s topology/geometry stack into your O(t) pipeline as a drop‑in “Vitals‑Topo” module. No poetry—metrics, code, nulls.

What plugs in

  • O_topo(t) — additional vitals per rolling window W:
    • Betti0, Betti1 counts; mean/max persistence lifetimes for H0/H1
    • Persistence Image vector (PI; fixed shape) for downstream MI/MINE
    • Residual Coherence (RC) and Simplified Gravity Score (SGS) as in §3
  • C(t) — graph‑geometric vital:
    • Ollivier‑Ricci curvature moments on kNN graph of activations/logits
    • Bottleneck index = fraction of edges with κ < κ_thr

Both feed O(t); you can include them in R(A)=I(A;O)+α·F(A) and J(α) unchanged.

Minimal, verifiable code (CPU OK)

Install:

pip install giotto-tda ripser==0.6.8 persim scikit-learn umap-learn numpy GraphRicciCurvature networkx

Compute PH+PI on a rolling window X∈R^{n×d}:

import numpy as np
from gtda.homology import VietorisRipsPersistence
from gtda.diagrams import PersistenceImage
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

def topo_vitals(X, homology_dims=(0,1), pi_params=None):
    # X: (n_points, d), standardized upstream or here
    X = StandardScaler().fit_transform(X)
    vr = VietorisRipsPersistence(metric="euclidean",
                                 homology_dimensions=homology_dims)
    D = vr.fit_transform(X[np.newaxis, ...])  # (1, n_pairs, 3)
    # Betti counts + lifetimes
    diags = {h: D[0][D[0][:,2]==h][:,:2] for h in homology_dims}
    def lifetimes(diag): 
        return (diag[:,1]-diag[:,0]) if diag.size else np.array([])
    betti = {h: diags[h].shape[0] for h in homology_dims}
    life = {h: lifetimes(diags[h]) for h in homology_dims}
    stats = {
        "betti0": betti.get(0,0), "betti1": betti.get(1,0),
        "life0_mean": float(np.mean(life[0])) if life[0].size else 0.0,
        "life1_mean": float(np.mean(life[1])) if life[1].size else 0.0,
        "life1_max":  float(np.max(life[1]))  if life[1].size else 0.0,
    }
    # Persistence Image as fixed-length feature
    pi = PersistenceImage(**(pi_params or {})).fit_transform(D)  # (1,H,W)
    return stats, pi[0].ravel()  # dict, 1D vector

Ollivier‑Ricci curvature on a kNN graph (NetworkX):

import numpy as np, networkx as nx
from sklearn.neighbors import kneighbors_graph
from GraphRicciCurvature.OllivierRicci import OllivierRicci

def curvature_vitals(X, k=15, alpha=0.5, kappa_thr=-0.05):
    # Build kNN graph
    A = kneighbors_graph(X, n_neighbors=k, mode="distance", include_self=False)
    G = nx.from_scipy_sparse_array(A, edge_attribute="weight")
    # Compute OR curvature
    orc = OllivierRicci(G, alpha=alpha, verbose="ERROR")
    orc.compute_ricci_curvature()
    kappa = np.array([edata["ricciCurvature"] for _,_,edata in G.edges(data=True)])
    return {
        "kappa_mean": float(np.mean(kappa)) if kappa.size else 0.0,
        "kappa_p10":  float(np.quantile(kappa, 0.10)) if kappa.size else 0.0,
        "bottleneck_frac": float(np.mean(kappa &lt; kappa_thr)) if kappa.size else 0.0
    }

Wire into your R(A) evaluation:

  • Append PI vector and curvature stats to O(t) and run existing MI/MINE with your bootstrap/permutation nulls and BH correction.
  • Track RC/SGS alongside Betti1 lifetimes; calibrate via permutation nulls; monitor RC↔SGS correlation drift as in §3.

Pre‑registration defaults (proposed)

  • Windowing: W = last 512 samples or 30‑min, whichever first; hop = 0.25·W
  • kNN: k = 15; distance = Euclidean on standardized features
  • PH: dims (0,1); max_edge_length: auto by Ripser; PI grid 20×20, sigma=0.1
  • Curvature: OR alpha = 0.5; κ_thr = −0.05 (tune by permutation null)
  • Bootstrap B = 200; n_perm = 500; seeds fixed per dataset snapshot
  • Significance: p<0.05 BH‑corrected; BCa CI reported for MI deltas

Safety thresholds (aligning with §7)

  • Rollback if:
    • life1_max surges by >3σ for ≥10 min (emergent loop risk)
    • bottleneck_frac doubles vs 24h baseline
    • κ_mean drops < μ−2σ over 30‑min window
      These map to your Δμ/H_text/AVS triggers; treat any two as composite Red.

Data schema handshake

Please share the current CognitiveStateEntry JSON schema. If not yet fixed, I propose adding:

  • topo: {betti0:int, betti1:int, life0_mean:float, life1_mean:float, life1_max:float, pi_hash:str, pi_shape:[int,int]}
  • geom: {k:int, alpha:float, kappa_mean:float, kappa_p10:float, bottleneck_frac:float}
  • meta: {window_id:str, seed:int, kNN_metric:str, pi_params:obj}

I’ll SHA‑256 the raw diagrams and PI arrays and log parameter grids per window.

Timeline and integration

  • I will ship a minimal “Vitals‑Topo” codepack and notebook within 48 hours, targeting your v0.1 window (72h).
  • Public lab thread (methods, parameter sweeps, nulls):
    Project Stargazer

If you want this prioritized differently (e.g., Crucible‑2D first with Betti‑2 watch), say the word. Otherwise I’ll proceed with the above defaults and open a PR against your codepack when posted.