The Strategy
AI is moving too fast for journals. By the time a review cycle completes, we've shipped another architecture. The journal pipeline publishes archaeology; the open-access + open-source pipeline publishes the living system.
Everything goes open. Journals are the anchor, not the gate.
- 13 papers published as open-access preprints on Zenodo (CC BY 4.0)
- An MIT-licensed reasoning core (
nusy-reasoners) so claims can be run, not just cited - NAI Journal submissions in progress
- Failures published alongside successes (see Paper 118 — five hypotheses, all refuted)
When we claim 0% hallucination on the provable path, a reviewer either believes us or doesn't. When the reasoning core is open and you can run it yourself — that's a different kind of validation.
Published Papers
All 13 papers are open-access preprints on Zenodo (full methodology, results, limitations, raw data). The canonical list lives at ORCID 0000-0002-3912-0080.
| # | Title | Key Result | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | The NuSy Brain Architecture | 4-layer knowledge model, 11.3ms latency, 0% hallucination on the symbolic path | DOI |
| 102 | Training Neurosymbolic Beings | 95-100% provenance, 100-1000x faster than fine-tuning | DOI |
| 103 | Sub-5ms Reasoning Performance | P95: 3.25ms, 1,345x speedup, 0% hallucination | DOI |
| 104 | Continuous Learning / Crystallization | 97.6% precision, 0 LLM calls on learned knowledge | DOI |
| 107 | Graph-Native Episodic Memory | 85.7% mistake prevention, +33.3pp decision quality | DOI |
| 108 | Unified Cognitive Architecture | 9/9 hypotheses validated, 0% hallucination, 146x vs RAG | DOI |
| 110 | Semantic Field of View | 76.2% next-topic prediction, 42.8% auto-answer | DOI |
| 112 | Hierarchical Concept Index | 0.003ms lookup, O(1) at 1M concepts | DOI |
| 113 | COG Transfer Experiment | Equal quality, ~100,000x faster knowledge transfer | DOI |
| 114 | Domain-Aware Hallucination Prevention | 0 safety violations, 6 domains | DOI |
| 117/119/120 | Cognitive Layer Architecture (Y0-Y6) | Y5: 85.7-100% error elimination, Y6: 4.8% ECE | DOI |
| 118 | Lean Hypothesis Testing | 5/5 hypotheses failed — an honest-failure / methodology paper | DOI |
| 122 | AGI Certification Framework | 10-dimension ACF, Zorblaxia contamination-proof battery | DOI |
The preprints above cover the V7–V15 architecture. Newer campaigns: V18 (executable reasoning + the provable gate) and V19 (the NuSy LRM, below), with preprints in progress. V17 (causal vector-symbolic dedup) was tested and refuted — see below.
What didn't work — and why we publish it
Real science produces dead ends; hiding them is how hype accumulates. We version the graveyard, not just the wins:
- Paper 118 — five hypotheses, all refuted. We ran a lean-hypothesis battery and every one failed. We published it as a methodology paper, because a negative result you can trust is worth more than a positive one you can't.
- V17 — causal vector-symbolic dedup (refuted). We tested whether, where a causal rule is provably already encoded in an LLM's internal geometry, we could swap the neural representation for a symbolic pointer and preserve behavior (compressing the model while keeping it equivalent). Interventional probing didn't hold up — so we retired the approach rather than ship it. The lesson carried forward into V18's executable reasoning.
- Retired mechanisms. The lineage includes approaches we deliberately dropped — e.g., the LoRA fine-tuning path (retired in V16 for correction-based training). We keep the receipts.
This is the same discipline as the provable gate itself: abstain honestly rather than assert falsely.
V19 — the NuSy LRM: provable clinical reasoning
The current campaign is a Large Reasoning Model built on one hard rule: never let a guess masquerade as a fact. A neural layer proposes; a strictly separated symbolic layer proves — or abstains. On the provable path, hallucination is zero by construction. We're proving it first in the hardest auditable domain — clinical decision support (FHIR-CPG-grounded, UMLS/SNOMED-native) — because that's where a confident wrong answer is least acceptable. See the platform.
Current, honest, on-disk measurements from the V19 clinical batteries:
- Never-launder: 0% overclaim — the gate structurally cannot present an unproven answer as proven.
- Clinical coverage: 0.833 on our JNC8 hypertension gold panel, with a deliberate 16.7% abstention rate — it declines rather than fabricates.
- Stage-honest: these are our own batteries on a curated panel; external-validity evaluation is in progress. The load-bearing property is the abstention discipline, not a leaderboard number.
Measure First, Publish Second
The ACF (AGI Certification Framework) tells us whether provable cognition is improving — a feedback loop that runs on weeks, not publication cycles. It's one continuous pursuit: provable understanding, measured version over version.
The through-line. ACF began by measuring general provable cognition across education beings (below). V19's clinical reasoner is the next rung on that same ladder — the same never-launder discipline, now proven where correctness is non-negotiable. We believe provable clinical reasoning is a step toward general AGI, and the foundation for a safer one: the mechanism that makes it safe in medicine — causal (do-calculus) reasoning behind a symbolic proof gate, with a strong LLM confined to proposing — is domain-agnostic. Medicine is the evidence, not the ceiling.
V11 → V12 Benchmark (February 2026) — general provable cognition across four education beings (same corpus, same machine):
| Being | V11 | V12 | Delta | Level Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toddler | 47.9 | 56.6 | +8.7 | ACF-3 to ACF-3 |
| Gradeschool | 58.8 | 63.3 | +4.5 | ACF-3 to ACF-4 |
| Middleschool | 47.6 | 63.3 | +15.8 | ACF-3 to ACF-4 |
| Highschool | 49.2 | 63.3 | +14.1 | ACF-3 to ACF-4 |
Consistent improvement across every level; the biggest gains in compositional generalization and factual grounding — the same properties the V19 provable gate now enforces clinically.
How we work
Every change carries a falsifiable hypothesis, a measure, and a pre-registered failure criterion — Hypothesis-Driven Development. To date: 255+ hypotheses and 240+ experiments across 1,600+ expeditions, tracked in a graph-native system, with negative results published alongside the wins. Read the essay →
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