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Cortex v0.4.0 — Spiking Recall & Cross-Domain Reasoning

12 Apr 21:24

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Spiking Recall Resurrection

  • Fire BFS-discovered concepts into the 2B-synapse spiking network
  • 30-step propagation through association cortex with raised synaptic clamp (1.5)
  • Neuromodulator-driven recall: focused mode (high ACh) for single-topic, broad mode (high NE) for cross-domain
  • Emergent associations discovered through lateral neural pathways
  • Confidence tags: [confirmed] (BFS+spiking), [explicit] (BFS only), [emergent] (spiking only)

Synaptic Knowledge Imprinting

  • When triples are learned, strengthen actual CSR weights between concept assembly neurons
  • 803 synapses imprinted per 13-triple learning batch (delta 0.8/0.8/0.4)
  • Persisted triples re-imprinted on startup
  • Imprinted weights cap at 1.0 (2x the normal 0.5 background)

Persistent Cumulative Knowledge

  • Triples persist to data/triples.log (pipe-delimited, append-only)
  • Topic registry in data/topics.json (deduplication, provenance)
  • Knowledge survives server restarts: 24 topics, 816 concepts, 1195 associations
  • Weight cap raised to 2.0 for multi-source reinforcement

Cross-Domain Reasoning

  • Bidirectional BFS: query matches 2+ concept clusters, BFS from both sides, find bridge nodes
  • Bridge concept detection: "kv cache" shared between TurboQuant and FlashAttention
  • Cross-domain answers: LLM connects knowledge from different YouTube videos

New API Endpoints

  • POST /api/brain/learn/batch — learn multiple videos {"videos": [{url, topic}, ...]}
  • GET /api/brain/knowledge/stats — topics, concepts, associations, bridges, top connected

Download

  • cortex-v0.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz — pre-built x86_64 Linux binary (stripped, 24MB)