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+ Name: ravana-ml
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: RAVANA ML Framework -- tensors, modules, ConceptGraph, RLMv1/RLMv2, plasticity, free energy
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+ License: MIT
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.9
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.20
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+ # RAVANA — Recursive Learning Model
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+ > **A pressure-driven cognitive ML framework where learning emerges from self-organization, not gradient descent.**
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+ [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.10%2B-blue)](https://python.org)
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+ [![NumPy](https://img.shields.io/badge/NumPy-1.20%2B-orange)](https://numpy.org)
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+ [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green)](LICENSE)
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+ [![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/Status-Research%20Prototype-yellow)]()
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+ ---
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+ ## What Is RAVANA?
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+ RAVANA is a **cognitive architecture research project** proposing *pressure-driven self-organization* as an alternative to gradient descent for machine learning. Instead of minimizing loss functions via backpropagation, RAVANA learns through **cognitive dissonance minimization**: prediction errors create internal pressure (free energy), and the system self-organizes to reduce that pressure.
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+ ```
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+ Traditional ML: Loss(θ) = f(prediction, target) → ∇Loss → θ ← θ - η∇Loss
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+ RAVANA: Prediction Error → Free Energy (Pressure) → Hebbian Plasticity + Sleep → Equilibrium
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Core Philosophy
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+ | Traditional ML | RAVANA |
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+ |----------------|--------|
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+ | **Loss functions** → gradients | **Free energy** (pressure) → self-organization |
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+ | **Backpropagation** | **Hebbian/anti-Hebbian plasticity** + structural plasticity |
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+ | **Weight decay, regularization** | **Identity** + homeostatic sleep consolidation |
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+ | **Batch/layer normalization** | **SWS + REM sleep cycles** with dream sabotage |
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+ | **Dense weight matrices** | **ConceptGraph** (typed edges, inhibition, hierarchy) |
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+ | **Global attention** | **Spreading activation** (local, bounded, typed) |
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+ | **Static weights / RAG** | **Episodic → Semantic → Graph bridge** |
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+ | **External reward functions** | **Intrinsic motivation** (Meaning = f(-Dissonance, Identity, Prediction)) |
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+ | **No emotion/identity** | **VAD emotion engine** + momentum-based identity |
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Two Architectures, One Codebase
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+ RAVANA now contains **two complementary cognitive architectures**:
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+ ### 1. **RAVANA v2** — GRACE Cognitive Core (`ravana-v2/`)
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+ The original GRACE (General Recursive Adaptive Cognitive Engine) with 27 phases (A–P) implementing:
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+ - **Governor regulation** (Phases A–C) — Hard constraints, predictive dampening, center-seeking homeostasis
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+ - **Strategy & Intent** (Phases D–J) — 4 strategy modes, planning, hypotheses, Occam layer
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+ - **World Model & Epistemology** (Phases F–G.5) — Belief reasoning, active probes, VoI-driven action
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+ - **Emotion & Sleep** (Phases K–L.5) — VAD emotion, empathy, 4-stage sleep, dual-process
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+ - **Meaning & Consciousness** (Phases M–N) — Intrinsic motivation, global workspace
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+ - **Human Memory & Dialogue** (Phases O–P) — Episodic/semantic persistence, conversational repair
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+ ### 2. **RAVANA Modular** — Decoder-First Chat (`ravana/`) **NEW**
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+ A streamlined, package-oriented architecture focused on **continuous web learning** and **decoder-first generation**:
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+ - **CognitiveCore** (`ravana/core/`) — VAD emotion, Identity, Meaning, Dual-process, Global Workspace, Meta-cognition, Sleep, **Multi-user BeliefStore**
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+ - **GraphEngine** (`ravana/graph/`) — Concept graph, spreading activation, hippocampal indexing, curiosity scoring
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+ - **DecoderEngine** (`ravana/decoder/`) — Neural decoder, vocab building, seed corpus + web article training
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+ - **WebLearner** (`ravana/web/`) — Multi-API search (circuit breaker), background learning, curiosity-driven exploration (Phase 18)
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+ - **BootstrapManager** (`ravana/bootstrap/`) — Consolidated concept seeding (3 methods unified)
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+ - **RLMv2 Decomposed** (`ravana/nn/rlm/`) — RelationPredictor, PropagationEngine, Plasticity
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+ - **ChatInterface** (`ravana/chat/`) — CLI, response pipeline, reasoning loop
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+ ---
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+ ## Key Innovations (Shared)
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+ ### 🧠 Pressure-Driven Learning
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+ No loss functions, no gradients, no backpropagation. Learning driven by **5-channel free energy accumulator** tracking semantic, linguistic, episodic, contradiction, and abstraction prediction errors.
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+ ### 🕸️ ConceptGraph with Typed Edges
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+ Heterogeneous graph of concept nodes with **active/core/genesis vectors** connected by typed relation edges (semantic, causal, temporal, analogical, contextual, inferred, inhibitory). Each edge carries weight, confidence, relation vector, predicate token, EWC importance, and Bayesian posterior.
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+ ### 💤 Sleep Consolidation (SWS + REM)
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+ Two-phase sleep modeled on mammalian sleep:
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+ - **SWS**: Structural stabilization, adaptive homeostatic downscale, hierarchical abstraction compression, inhibitory edge formation, hippocampal replay
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+ - **REM**: Creative recombination via 20% counterfactual reversals, 10% emotional valence flipping, 1.5× failure oversampling
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+ ### 🔄 Sleep-Time Interleaved Replay
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+ Domain-tagged experiences buffered during training, replayed during SWS+REM. **Eliminates catastrophic forgetting entirely** (12% → 0% retention drop) in lifelong streaming benchmarks.
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+ ### 🏛️ GRACE Governor (v2 only)
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+ Closed-loop regulation with four layers: hard constraints (non-negotiable), predictive dampening (look-ahead), boundary pressure (air resistance), center-seeking homeostasis. **Fully observable** with clamp diagnostics.
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+ ### 🎭 VAD Emotion Engine
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+ 3D affective state (Valence, Arousal, Dominance) via differential equations. Modulates inference: high arousal → exploration, positive valence → trust predictions, high dominance → stronger concepts.
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+ ### 🧩 RLMv2 — Triple Decomposition Architecture
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+ Brain-inspired: decomposes input into **(subject, relation_type, object)** triples. Enables vector arithmetic analogy: `subject_embed + offset(verb) ≈ target_embed`. **Spreading activation is the sole inference mechanism**.
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+ ### 📖 GloVe Semantic Embeddings
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+ Token embeddings initialized from pre-trained GloVe (100D) projected via QR-based orthogonal projection. Replaces character n-gram embeddings for genuine semantic relationships.
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+ ### 🎯 Verb-Stem Offset Predictor
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+ New inference path: `offset(verb) = avg(target - subject)` over training pairs. Each verb gets its own offset. **RP-only cross-domain top-10: 3.3% → 6.7%**.
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+ ### 🌐 Continuous Web Learning (Modular only)
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+ `WebLearner` fetches → extracts → trains decoder online. Knowledge grows **without retraining from scratch**. Curiosity-driven (free energy + contradiction + novelty + serendipity).
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+ ### 👥 Multi-User Belief Merging (Modular only)
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+ `BeliefStore` tracks *who believes what*, detects contradictions, merges across users — `cross_reference_users()`, `find_agreement()`, `find_disagreement()`.
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+ ---
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+ ## Quick Start
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+ ### Installation
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+ ```bash
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+ # Primary (Codeberg)
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+ git clone https://codeberg.org/oxiverse/ravana.git
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+ # Mirror (GitHub)
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+ git clone https://github.com/oxiverse-ecosystem/ravana.git
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+ cd ravana
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+ pip install -e ravana/ # NumPy only (modular package)
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+ pip install tiktoken # Optional: BPE tokenizer
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+ ```
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+ ### Modular Package — Decoder-First Chat (NEW)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Interactive chat with web learning
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+ python -m ravana.chat
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+ # Batch mode for testing
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+ python -m ravana.chat --chat "hello|what is trust|explain oxiverse|bye" --strategy
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+ # With ablation flags
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+ python -m ravana.chat --chat "what causes rain" --no-vad --no-rlm --no-beliefs --no-curiosity
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+ ```
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+ **Key flags:**
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+ - `--no-vad` — Disable VAD emotion modulation
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+ - `--no-rlm` — Disable RLMv2 triple verification
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+ - `--no-beliefs` — Disable belief store
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+ - `--no-curiosity` — Disable autonomous curiosity-driven learning
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+ - `--mode` — `stochastic` | `deterministic` | `exploratory`
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+ - `--trace` — Print chain traces
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+ - `--data-dir` — Custom data directory
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+ - `--user` — Multi-user isolation
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+ ### GRACE Cognitive Core (v2)
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+ ```python
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+ from ravana_v2.cognitive import CognitiveFramework
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+ fw = CognitiveFramework()
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+ state = fw.initialize()
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+ for episode, (inp_vec, tgt_vec) in enumerate(training_data):
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+ concepts = fw.perceive(state, inp_vec)
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+ predictions = fw.predict(state, concepts)
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+ state = fw.learn(state, predictions, tgt_vec, episode)
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+ if episode % 100 == 0:
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+ state = fw.sleep(state)
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+ result = fw.infer(state, test_vec) # Inference without state change
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+ ```
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+ ### RLMv2 — Language Model (Shared)
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+ ```python
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+ from ravana.nn import RLM
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+ from ravana_ml.tokenizer import WordTokenizer
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+ import numpy as np
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+ tok = WordTokenizer()
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+ tok.encode("heat causes expansion")
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+ model = RLM(
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+ vocab_size=tok.vocab_size,
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+ embed_dim=64,
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+ concept_dim=64,
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+ n_concepts=100,
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+ latent_dim=64, # Set equal to embed_dim for entity adapter compatibility
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+ )
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+ inp = np.array(tok.encode("heat causes"), dtype=np.int64)
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+ tgt = np.array(tok.encode("expansion"), dtype=np.int64)
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+ model.learn(inp, tgt)
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+ model.sleep_cycle()
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+ logits = model.forward(inp)
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+ ```
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+ **Note:** The `latent_dim` parameter controls the world model latent dimension. For the entity-specific adapter (enables test-time adaptation for held-out subjects) to work without additional projection overhead, set `latent_dim=embed_dim`. If they differ, the model automatically projects embeddings to latent space before applying the adapter.
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+ ---
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+ ## Benchmarks (External)
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+ All benchmarks are run via external benchmarking infrastructure. See [`docs/EXPERIMENTS.md`](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md) for reproduction instructions and expected results.
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+ ### External Benchmark Harness (NEW)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Quick run (PCX + Graph, ~2 min)
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+ python external_benchmark.py --quick
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+ # Full suite (PCX + Lifelong + Graph, ~10 min)
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+ python external_benchmark.py
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+ # Individual surfaces
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+ python external_benchmark.py --quick --skip-lifelong # PCX + Graph
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+ python external_benchmark.py --quick --skip-pcx # Lifelong + Graph
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+ ```
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+ **Key external validation results:**
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+ | Metric | Result |
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+ |--------|--------|
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+ | Cross-domain transfer Top-1 | **75.0%** |
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+ | Cross-domain transfer Top-10 | **100%** |
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+ | Held-out Science Top-1 / Top-10 | 8.3% / 25.0% (n=12) |
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+ | Held-out Social Top-1 / Top-10 | 0.0% / 8.3% (n=36) |
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+ | Graph Inference P95 / P99 | 2.7 ms / 2.9 ms |
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+ | Graph Peak Memory / Throughput | 0.3 MB / 556 QPS |
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+ | W_rel Causal / Semantic Alignment | 0.68 / 0.55 |
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+ | Lifelong forgetting (permuted MNIST) | **0%** (with sleep) |
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+ | Within-domain triple top-10 | 80.9% |
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+ ---
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+ ## Documentation
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+ | Document | Description |
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+ |----------|-------------|
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+ | [`docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) | Complete architecture reference — GRACE, RLMv2, Phases A–P, GloVe, verb-stem offset |
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+ | [`docs/GETTING_STARTED.md`](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) | Quickstart tutorial — install to first model in 5 minutes |
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+ | [`docs/ML_FRAMEWORK.md`](docs/ML_FRAMEWORK.md) | ravana_ml deep dive — tensors, modules, ConceptGraph, RLM v1/v2 |
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+ | [`docs/COGNITIVE_CORE.md`](docs/COGNITIVE_CORE.md) | ravana-v2 reference — all 27 GRACE modules, configurations |
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+ | [`docs/UNIFIED_PACKAGE.md`](docs/UNIFIED_PACKAGE.md) | ravana/ package — PyTorch API, CognitiveFramework, serialization |
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+ | [`docs/API_REFERENCE.md`](docs/API_REFERENCE.md) | Complete function/class reference for all three layers |
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+ | [`docs/CONCEPTS.md`](docs/CONCEPTS.md) | Theoretical foundations — pressure, free energy, Hebbian, sleep, VAD, triples |
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+ | [`docs/EXPERIMENTS.md`](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md) | Running experiments — cross-domain, Phase 4, RLMv2 benchmarks, cognitive phases, **modular ablations, per-triple eval** |
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+ | [`docs/ADVANCED_TOPICS.md`](docs/ADVANCED_TOPICS.md) | Customization — tokenizers, plasticity, sleep, governor, multi-agent, lifelong |
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+ | [`docs/TUTORIALS.md`](docs/TUTORIALS.md) | 8 step-by-step tutorials — Hello World to visualization |
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+ | [`docs/DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md`](docs/DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md) | Contributing — code standards, testing, architecture principles, release process |
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+ ---
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+ ## Running Tests
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+ ```bash
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+ # Modular package tests (NEW)
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_cognitive_rlm.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_dialogue_system.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_dialogue_engine_integration.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/ -k "not slow" -v
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+ # RLMv2 unit tests (shared)
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_rlm_v2.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_rp_only.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_rp_contrastive.py -v
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+ python -m pytest tests/test_structural_transfer.py -v
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+ # GRACE cognitive core tests (v2)
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+ python -m pytest ravana-v2/tests/ -v
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+ # All tests
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+ python -m pytest tests/ ravana-v2/tests/ -v
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+ ```
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+ **Current status: 169 tests passing** (15 cognitive + 49 dialogue + 15 integration + ML framework tests)
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+ ---
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+ ## Running Experiments
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+ ### Modular Package Experiments (NEW)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Ablation study — all config combinations
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+ python scripts/run_ablation.py --queries "hello|what is trust|explain oxiverse|bye" --runs 3
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+ python scripts/run_ablation.py --quick --modes # Baseline + single flag removals + mode variants
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+ # Per-triple evaluation harness
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+ python scripts/triple_eval.py --data-dir ./data --output triple_eval_report.json
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+ python scripts/triple_eval.py --triples-file my_triples.json --output report.json
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+ ```
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+ ### GRACE / ML Framework Experiments
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+ ```bash
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+ # Cross-domain transfer
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+ python experiments/experiment_cross_domain.py
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+ # Phase 4 integrated (triplet margin + wake-sleep)
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+ python experiments/experiment_phase4_integrated.py
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+ # RLMv2 triple benchmark
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+ python experiments/experiment_triple_benchmark_v6.py
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+ # Diagnostic tests
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+ python tests/test_rp_only.py
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+ python tests/test_rp_contrastive.py
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+ python tests/test_structural_transfer.py
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+ # Cognitive architecture experiments
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+ cd ravana-v2 && python experiments/runner.py
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+ ```
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+ ### Custom Experiments
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+ See [`docs/EXPERIMENTS.md`](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md#custom-experiments) for templates and configuration reference.
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+ ---
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+ ## Project Structure
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+ ```
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+ ravana/
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+ ├── README.md # This file
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+ ├── ravana/ # Unified pip-installable package (NEW)
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+ │ ├── __init__.py # import ravana
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+ │ ├── core/ # CognitiveCore
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+ │ │ ├── emotion.py # VADEmotionEngine (VAD dynamics)
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+ │ │ ├── identity.py # IdentityEngine (self-coherence)
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+ │ │ ├── meaning.py # MeaningEngine (dissonance reduction)
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+ │ │ ├── dual_process.py # DualProcessController (System 1/2)
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+ │ │ ├── global_workspace.py # GlobalWorkspace (broadcast)
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+ │ │ ├── meta_cognition.py # MetaCognition (bias detection)
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+ │ │ ├── sleep.py # SleepConsolidation (hippocampal replay)
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+ │ │ ├── belief_store.py # BeliefStore (multi-user merging)
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ ├── graph/ # GraphEngine
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+ │ │ ├── engine.py # Concept graph, spreading activation, hippocampal indexing
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py # + backward compat: ConceptGraph, ConceptNode, etc.
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+ │ ├── decoder/ # DecoderEngine
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+ │ │ ├── engine.py # Neural decoder, vocab, training, generation
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ ├── web/ # WebLearner
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+ │ │ ├── learner.py # Multi-API search, background learning, curiosity
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ ├── bootstrap/ # BootstrapManager
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+ │ │ ├── manager.py # Consolidated: auto_expand, seed_from_curiosity, bootstrap_domain
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ ├── nn/rlm/ # RLMv2 Decomposed
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+ │ │ ├── relation_predictor.py # RelationPredictor (W_rel, verb-stem offset)
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+ │ │ ├── propagation.py # PropagationEngine (multi-phase spread)
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+ │ │ ├── plasticity.py # Plasticity (Hebbian/Anti-Hebbian/Structural)
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ ├── chat/ # ChatInterface
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+ │ │ ├── interface.py # CLI, response pipeline, reasoning loop
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+ │ │ └── __init__.py
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+ │ └── pyproject.toml # numpy>=1.20
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+ ├── ravana_ml/ # ML Framework (~5,200 lines)
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+ │ ├── nn/rlm_v2.py # RLMv2 (triple decomposition, GloVe)
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+ │ ├── graph.py # ConceptGraph (3,678 lines)
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+ │ ├── tensor.py # StateTensor / RawTensor / Parameter
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+ │ ├── plasticity.py # Hebbian, Anti-Hebbian, Structural
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+ │ └── ... (tokenizer, embedder, free_energy, currencies, propagation)
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+ ├── ravana-v2/ # GRACE Cognitive Core (~19,500 lines)
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+ │ ├── core/ # 27 Phases A–P modules
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+ │ │ ├── governor.py # Central regulation
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+ │ │ ├── identity.py # Momentum-based self-concept
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+ │ │ ├── sleep.py # 4-stage SWS+REM
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+ │ │ ├── emotion.py # VAD differential equations
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+ │ │ ├── human_memory.py # Episodic/Semantic (2,321 lines)
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+ │ │ ├── global_workspace.py # Consciousness bottleneck
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+ │ │ ├── meaning.py # Intrinsic motivation
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+ │ │ ├── dual_process.py # System 1 / System 2
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+ │ │ └── ... (20 more modules)
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+ │ ├── experiments/phases/ # Phase runners
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+ │ └── tests/ # Unit tests
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+ ├── experiments/ # Cross-domain & Phase 4 experiments (18 files)
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+ ├── scripts/ # Analysis & evaluation tools
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+ │ ├── run_ablation.py # Ablation study runner (NEW)
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+ │ ├── triple_eval.py # Per-triple evaluation harness (NEW)
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+ │ └── ...
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+ ├── tests/ # ML framework tests (17 files)
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+ ├── docs/ # Full documentation (12 files)
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+ ├── data/glove/ # GloVe embeddings (download required)
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+ ├── results/ # Benchmark outputs & diagnostics
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+ ├── ablation_results.json # Ablation study outputs
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+ ├── triple_eval_report.json # Per-triple diagnostic reports
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+ └── RAVANA_DEV_PLAN.md # Development roadmap
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+ ## Ablation Study Framework (NEW)
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+ The modular package includes a systematic ablation runner (`scripts/run_ablation.py`):
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+ ```bash
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+ # Full factorial (4 flags × 3 modes = 48 configs)
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+ python scripts/run_ablation.py --queries "hello|what is trust|explain oxiverse|bye" --runs 3
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+ # Quick mode (baseline + 4 single removals + 2 mode variants = 7 configs)
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+ python scripts/run_ablation.py --quick --modes
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+ # Output: ablation_results.json + markdown comparison table
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+ ```
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+ **What it tests:**
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+ | Flag | Component |
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+ | `--no-vad` | VAD emotion modulation |
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+ | `--no-rlm` | RLMv2 triple verification |
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+ | `--no-beliefs` | Multi-user belief store |
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+ | `--no-curiosity` | Autonomous curiosity-driven learning |
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+ **Metrics tracked:** Success rate, avg latency, total time, error modes per config.
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+ ---
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+ ## Per-Triple Evaluation Harness (NEW)
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+ Detailed diagnostics instead of averaged metrics (`scripts/triple_eval.py`):
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+ ```bash
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+ # Default 10 triples (semantic, causal, contrastive)
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+ python scripts/triple_eval.py --data-dir ./data --output triple_eval_report.json
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+ # Custom triples
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+ python scripts/triple_eval.py --triples-file my_triples.json --output report.json
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+ ```
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+ **Per-triple metrics:**
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+ - **Relation type**: semantic / causal / contrastive / possessive / temporal / analogical
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+ - **Prediction error (PE)**: how well the model predicts the object
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+ - **Confidence**: model's confidence in the prediction
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+ - **Top-1 / Top-5 accuracy**: exact match / in top 5
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+ - **Rank**: position of correct object in predictions
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+ - **Graph edge**: weight, confidence, type, `prediction_free_energy`
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+ - **Source**: where learned — `seed` | `web` | `user` | `sleep` | `inference` | `unknown`
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+ **Aggregated diagnostics:**
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+ - Overall metrics + by relation type + by source
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+ - Edge health summary (avg weight, confidence, PE, type distribution)
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+ ---
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+ ## License
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+ MIT — Built for the RAVANA-AGI-Research initiative.
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+ ---
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+ ## About
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+ RAVANA explores an alternative paradigm for machine learning — where cognition emerges from **internal pressure**, not gradient optimization; where knowledge **self-organizes** through Hebbian plasticity and sleep consolidation; and where **identity, emotion, and meaning** are first-class citizens of the learning dynamics.
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+ **The core thesis**: *"Cognition as pressure-driven self-organization."*
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+ This is the center of gravity. Everything else is implementation detail.
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+ ---
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+ ## Citation
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+ If you use RAVANA in research, please cite:
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{ravana2026,
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+ title={RAVANA: Pressure-Driven Self-Organization for Cognitive Machine Learning},
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+ author={RAVANA Research Team},
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+ year={2026},
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+ url={https://codeberg.org/oxiverse/ravana}
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+ ## Links
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+ - **Documentation**: [`docs/`](docs/)
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+ - **External Audit**: [`docs/EXTERNAL_AUDIT.md`](docs/EXTERNAL_AUDIT.md)