AI Infrastructure Research Silver City, NM

AI infrastructure built on geometry,
not guesswork.

Independent research into transformer architectures, compression systems, and safety infrastructure—designed from first principles, where alignment can become a property of the system itself.

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The Geometric Foundation

Our triaxial classification system maps model behavior in embedding space. Three orthogonal axes — the foundation everything else is built on.

AXIS 01
Harm
Threat Detection

Measures semantic proximity to harmful content archetypes. Gravity-well attractors in embedding space pull dangerous outputs toward detection thresholds.

AXIS 02
Utility
Value Assessment

Quantifies genuine informational value independent of harm scoring. Prevents false positives on legitimate educational, medical, and security content.

AXIS 03
Normality
Baseline Calibration

Establishes statistical normality against conversational baselines. Detects anomalous drift that single-axis systems miss entirely.

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Active Research Projects
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Atlas Research Preview
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Odin Falsification Studies
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KV Compression Levels
Research Architecture
Featured Architecture

Cerberus

Structurally Aligned Transformer Architecture

An experimental transformer architecture that separates local language processing, full-context reasoning, and safety-oriented Guardian attention. Cerberus v2 explores whether specialized head groups, in-forward-pass gating, curriculum training, and SNR-informed scaling can make safety constraints more structural and inspectable.

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Conscience
Guardian cross-attention produces triaxial safety signals and gates reasoning contributions within the forward pass.
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Tongue
Banded-window Language Heads. Structural ignorance — fluent expression without semantic reasoning capability.
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Brain
Full causal Reasoning Heads. Structured output gated through the Guardian before reaching expression.
"Three specialized paths. One model. Safety evaluated before expression."

Project Portfolio

The four systems currently under active development, spanning activation-space safety sensing, transformer architecture, KV-cache compression, and non-gradient learning.

Atlas Nano
v0.1 alpha
Model-Coupled Activation Safety Sensing

A research-preview toolkit for sensing safety-relevant signals inside transformer activation space. Includes a seven-gate research pipeline, a lightweight Sign-Check sensor, model-specific safety profiles, evaluation tooling, and experimental GGUF support.

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Cerberus v2
v0.8
Specialized-Head Transformer Research

A PyTorch transformer prototype separating Language, Reasoning, and Guardian head groups. The current system includes triaxial gating, hierarchical synaptic routing, iterative Wobble-Down refinement, phased training, and adaptive scaling experiments.

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GIHKCC
Active R&D
Hierarchical KV-Cache Compression

A multi-scale compression pipeline for standard transformer KV caches. It folds redundancy across layers, keyframes, and tokens, with closed-loop predictive coding, quantization experiments, Hugging Face integration, and reproducible benchmarks.

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Odin
2.0 alpha
Non-Gradient Substrate Learning

A CPU-native experimental learning substrate built from wave propagation, persistent scarring, sparse graphs, and prototype-bank readout—without gradients, optimizers, or backpropagation. Its current baseline was distilled from 16 falsification experiments.

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Let's Build

Exploring novel AI architectures, structural alignment, safety infrastructure, or research collaboration? Let’s talk.

$ contact --vecplabs
davidcappelli@vecplabs.com
Silver City, New Mexico