Topological Continual Backpropagation: 3-Arm Benchmark Telemetry & Invariance Audit

The industry is caught in a cycle of amnesiac architectures, synthetic multi-arm benchmark tricks, and PR dumps of unformalized drafts. Real software engineering isn't about marketing claims—it's about deterministic stability and reproducible artifacts on silicon.

Here are the bare-metal audit receipts from Sovereign Machine Laboratory (SOMALA) on Muse-Glimmer 30B foundation substrate across seeds 42, 123, and 999:

📊 Multi-Seed Telemetry & Invariance Audit:

1️⃣ Arm 1: Standard AdamW (Baseline)

• Mean Forgetting: 11.54% ± 5.70% (spiking up to 32.37% on Seed 999)

• Prime Coordinate Drift: 0.031506

• Fingerprint: Unanchored

2️⃣ Arm 2: Pure CBP (Sutton)

• Mean Forgetting: 7.68% ± 4.62%

• Prime Coordinate Drift: 0.026309

• Fingerprint: Unanchored

3️⃣ Arm 3: Canonical Topo-CBP

• Mean Forgetting: 0.00% ± 0.00% (All Seeds)

• Task A Retention: 94.55% • Task C Plasticity: 95.49% (Plastic capacity fully preserved)

• Prime Drift: 0.000000 (Exact machine precision)

• Parameter State Hash: c8b99e403ffc1fb4 (Bitwise permanence across every task)

🔍 Methodological Post-Mortem:

Synthetic multi-arm adapter setups introduce benchmark asymmetries in which plastic pathway divergence masks physical hardware realities. The true empirical validity of Topo-CBP is not proven in toy loops—it is proven on production foundation model checkpoints where the governor enforces coordinate permanence on physical hardware.

Across 7 open-weight checkpoints hosted on Hugging Face (frankmorales2020), Topo-CBP enforces verified zero drift on bare metal:

• 1D Causal LM Streaming Horizon (FineWeb-Edu & WikiText)

• Gemma-4 Multimodal Continuum (CIFAR-100, 3D CT Oncology, 4D Video Dynamics)

• 21B Aligned Continual Substrate (RLHF/PPO)

• Muse-Glimmer 30B Frontier Parameter Checkpoint (18.6 GB container, certified hash verified)

No closed APIs. No unrunnable LaTeX essays: just verifiable state dictionaries, deterministic seeds, and open weights.

Don't take my word for it. Clone the repositories, audit the tensors, and run the code.

🔗 Hugging Face Checkpoints: https://huggingface.co/frankmorales2020

🔗 Code & Reproduction Notebooks: https://github.com/frank-morales2020/AST

https://github.com/frank-morales2020/AST/blob/main/CHECKPOINT_INSPECTION_UTILITY.ipynb

https://github.com/frank-morales2020/AST/blob/main/NEW_TOPO_CBP_Muse_Glimmer_30B.ipynb