Methods
Methods
Fusion rules, sequence models, verification, and operational loops, written at the precision of the papers they cite. Each page names the project that implements the method and links to that project's documentation.
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RASE — Rapid Agentic Systems Engineering
A Python-native MBSE metamodel that couples SysML v2 semantics with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards for agent training.
Python-native MBSE metamodel coupling SysML v2 semantics with RLVR. Four sub-models — OSM (BDD scenarios), SSM (typed system-state graph with declarative constraints), UOM (Set-of-Mark / Trace-of-Mark UI grounding), VM (verifier and reward) — share a URI-based traceability spine, with API ground truth as oracle and UI traces as the training target.
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Dempster–Shafer evidence fusion for column classification
Multi-source belief-function combination over a restricted frame of discernment, yielding `[Bel, Pl]` intervals at every hierarchy level.
Six evidence sources — ColBERT MaxSim retrieval, gradient-boosted prediction, regex patterns, name matching, ModernBERT-NHSVM, and an LLM convergence agent — emit mass functions over a restricted focal set derived from the taxonomy hierarchy; Dempster's rule combines them into belief intervals `[Bel(A), Pl(A)]` at every level, with the interval width `Pl − Bel` quantifying epistemic uncertainty and the Dempster conflict `K` diagnosing source disagreement that point estimates suppress.
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ColBERT MaxSim late interaction
Classification by ColBERT MaxSim retrieval against an iteratively-optimized augmented controlled vocabulary, with per-text-feature analysis driving discriminative power.
Each ontology code is represented by an augmented definitional text — label, LLM-generated description, prototype values, name hints, value patterns, parent path, mnemonic — encoded once into a ColBERTv2 multi-vector and stored in Qdrant. Target items are classified by MaxSim retrieval against the vocabulary collection; a reflective evolution loop iteratively refines the vocabulary representation using per-feature attribution on both sides to drive discriminative power.
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OWL ⊨ SKOS ⊨ SHACL derivation chain
A BFO/CCO-grounded OWL ontology entails its SKOS vocabulary and SHACL shapes; the relational schema is a projection of that certified artifact, versioned so each commit is one coherent snapshot.
Ontology-grounded derivation in which HermiT-certified OWL is the source of truth, SKOS and SHACL are entailed views of the same axioms, and loadable SQL is lowered from the certified ontology. Every git commit is a content-hashed snapshot of the whole chain, enabling blind-release evaluation.
implemented in Aegir ·SDG corpora -
ModernBERT-NHSVM: calibrated multiclass SVM over ModernBERT embeddings
Hierarchy-aware multiclass SVM with a Crammer–Singer joint margin over ModernBERT mean-pool embeddings, post-hoc temperature-calibrated.
Normalized Hierarchical SVM (NHSVM; Choi, Chung & Hewitt 2015) head trained with the Crammer & Singer (2001) joint multiclass objective over 768-dim ModernBERT-base embeddings, with a structured tree-distance margin and a post-hoc softmax temperature fitted against a held-out reference slice for calibration.
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BERTopic input–intermediate–output correspondence
A paired dataset and pipeline capturing every prompt, intermediate topic-clustering state, and verifier component score for constrained-decode-generated ontology compositions.
Per-sample preservation of the full input-intermediate-output trace — prompt, raw completion, parsed composition, verbalisations, KMeans topic centroids over a fixed reference clustering, and four-component verifier scores — for rejection-sampled ontology compositions, enabling exact verifier re-derivation, alternative scoring, and RLVR self-distillation against a stable embedding-space anchor.
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OTel-projected Metaflow flows in NiFi
Render a Metaflow DAG as a NiFi processor graph and route the flow's OTel spans into per-step processors on that same canvas.
Project Metaflow flow classes onto the NiFi canvas — one processor per step, edges following self.next() — and stand up a sibling ListenOTLP graph that routes spans emitted at runtime back to per-step LogAttribute processors. The canvas becomes both DAG diagram and live telemetry surface against a shared step-name key.
implemented in Gaius -
FMEA-mediated self-remediation with an RCA abstraction ladder
A failure-mode catalog gated by Risk Priority Number, escalating unresolved incidents to a coding agent that climbs a five-order RCA ladder terminating at CP-SAT constraint vocabulary.
Couples a quantitative FMEA catalog (S × O × D) to an Agent Client Protocol escalation path and a five-order root-cause abstraction ladder. Incidents the runtime cannot close are classified as OPERATIONAL or ARCHITECTURAL; the latter open GitHub issues that link symptom to a violated scheduler constraint.
implemented in Gaius