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title: "DomainForge: System Walkthrough"
subtitle: "How the system is built: autonomous hypergraph induction, cellular sheaf diffusion, and deterministic querying"
author: "Philipp Guldimann"
date: "2026-09-14"
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$$
\gdef\Shf{\mathcal{F}}
\gdef\Pmap{\mathbf{P}}
\gdef\Lap{\mathbf{L}_{\mathcal{F}}}
\gdef\Hol{\mathbf{H}_f}
\gdef\Flux{\mathbf{B}_f}
\gdef\SO{\mathrm{SO}}
\gdef\Tr{\operatorname{Tr}}
$$
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# Executive Summary
Enterprise document archives span distinct functional divisions, mixing engineering specifications, corporate financial filings, and municipal statutory resolutions. Querying these archives requires reasoning across heterogeneous formats without conflating distinct departmental contexts.
Current retrieval systems fail at these institutional boundaries. Dense vector bi-encoders project disparate vocabularies into a single shared metric space, conflating homonyms across functional silos (such as an internal infrastructure codename in engineering and an advertising campaign in marketing), which is the failure this system is built to address. Static knowledge graphs resolve lexical ambiguity through rigid schemas, but manual ontology engineering cannot scale to rapidly updating archives or accommodate conflicting departmental rules.
DomainForge formalizes enterprise repositories as cellular sheaves over typed relational hypergraphs. By assigning each entity an independent stalk vector space $\Shf(v) \cong \mathbb{R}^{40}$ and each relational edge an orthogonal restriction map $\Pmap_{uv} \in \SO(40)$, local semantic coordinate systems remain decoupled. Incompatible context transitions generate algebraic boundary tension, turning conflicting edges into topological firebreaks that halt diffusion. Furthermore, language models act exclusively as deterministic query compilers ($\pi, \sigma, \bowtie$), producing factual answers audited against character-level 1-coboundary residuals.
### Core Scientific Contributions
1. **Autonomous Hypergraph Induction**: Direct extraction of layout-aware entities and typed relations via Minimum Description Length (MDL) thermodynamic simulated annealing, eliminating manual schema engineering.
2. **Cellular Sheaf Routing**: Orthogonal restriction maps $\Pmap_{uv} \in \SO(40)$ estimated via closed-form Orthogonal Procrustes alignment, so that a transition between incompatible contexts carries algebraic cost rather than being averaged away.
3. **Deterministic Relational Planning**: Natural language queries compile into formal relational algebra Abstract Syntax Trees executed over in-memory hash joins with linear time complexity.
4. **Character-Level Provenance**: Every synthesised span is traceable to the evidence unit that produced it, and is audited against 1-coboundary residuals rather than asserted.
Interactive components embedded directly in this document (Altair/Vega-Lite figures and Polars `PedagogicalDataFrame` ledgers):
- **Live Two-Gate Concept Survival Ledger** ([Step 1](#step-1-annealing)): Statistical significance vs. MDL compression efficiency quadrant analysis and candidate ledger.
- **Live Cellular Sheaf Topology** ([Step 2](#step-2-sheaf-topology)): Knowledge topology with a live Dirichlet tension threshold ($\tau$); drag the slider to watch high-tension edges become firebreaks, and click a node to inspect its silo, stalk dimension and Dirichlet energy.
- **Live Sheaf Resolvent Diffusion Simulator** ([Step 4](#step-4-sheaf-diffusion)): Resonant heat flow vs. cross-silo distractor firebreak quenching.
- **Live Multi-Scale Renormalization Schema** ([Step 5](#step-5-emergent-schema)): Hierarchical coarsening from micro-documents to functional clusters and macro silos.
- **Live Relational Algebra AST Execution** ([Step 6](#step-6-relational-algebra)): In-memory hash equi-join execution with deterministic provenance spans.
- **Live Witness Attribution & Synthesis Verifier** ([Step 7](#step-7-coboundary-audit)): Sentence-level citation tracking and 1-coboundary residual verification.
---
# Architecture: The Four-Part Neuro-Symbolic Framework
{#fig-architecture width=100%}
::: {.callout-note}
- **What is plotted**: The architectural dataflow of DomainForge, illustrating the progression from unstructured multi-department document archives through autonomous hypergraph induction, geometric cellular sheaf routing, and deterministic query execution.
- **Visual Elements**: Each part is a column with three mechanism modules, every module carrying a pictogram, its governing expression and the quantity it is held to. Part I (teal) shows the parsing chain, the annealing hypergraph with its MDL-pruned edge, and the star micro-quench; Part II (blue) shows stalks and $\Pmap_{uv} \in \SO(d)$ transport, Dirichlet energy with the resolvent, and cross-silo alignment; Part III (violet) shows cochain nilpotency ($\delta_1 \delta_0 = 0$), the 2-cell holonomy audit ($\Flux = (\delta \mathbf{A})_f$), and witness-attributed synthesis. The gutters carry the couplings between parts: the candidate hypergraph forward, sheaf energy feedback back.
- **Why it matters**: Decoupling inductive graph structuring from geometric sheaf routing and deterministic relational execution separates the stage that proposes a fact from the stage that certifies it.
:::
{#fig-pipeline-steps width=100%}
---
# Scientific Runtime Environment
We initialize the unified `domainforge.walkthrough` package, setting up dark-mode aesthetics, high-DPI matplotlib parameters, and importing the core neuro-symbolic engine:
```{python}
%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2
from pathlib import Path
from IPython.display import display, Markdown, HTML
import polars as pl
# 1. DomainForge Walkthrough SSOT & Visual Package
import domainforge.walkthrough as dw
# 2. Production Neuro-Symbolic Engine
from domainforge import (
IntertwinedPipeline,
SheafSearchEngine,
)
from domainforge.core import Node, NodeId, NodeKind, RelationNode, RoleBinding, to_networkx
from domainforge.induction.anneal import AcceptanceMode
from domainforge.induction.anneal.incremental import (
IncrementalStreamAnnealer,
StreamExcitationConfig,
)
from domainforge.reasoning.query import get_default_relational_planner
from domainforge.eval.config import EvaluationTier
# Initialize high-DPI dark-mode theme
dw.setup_walkthrough_env()
```
---
# Part I: Inductive Knowledge Representation
Enterprise archives cannot be searched reliably until multi-department documents are structured into a formal mathematical space that preserves local departmental contexts without requiring brittle, hand-engineered schemas. Part I resolves this foundational representation challenge across four progressive stages: establishing byte-exact evidence anchors from layout-dense files (Step 0), compressing noisy entity co-occurrences into parsimonious relations via Minimum Description Length thermodynamic annealing (Step 1), decoupling clashing departmental contexts through cellular sheaf geometry (Step 2), and maintaining this topological equilibrium under continuous document streams in sub-second time (Step 3).
---
## Step 0: Real-World Multi-Department Ingestion & Provenance {#step-0-ingestion}
### Bounded Document Space & Immutable Evidence Mapping
Enterprise corpora are multi-departmental, combining unstructured prose, tabular budgets, and statutory declarations. Naive recursive chunking fragments tabular headers and breaks cross-paragraph legal clauses. DomainForge avoids lossy splitting by formalizing a bounded document universe $\mathcal{D}$:
$$\mathcal{D} = \left\{ (d_i, \tau_i, \mathbf{m}_i) \right\}_{i=1}^{|\mathcal{D}|}, \quad d_i \in \mathcal{S}_{\text{id}}, \; \tau_i \in \Sigma^*, \; \mathbf{m}_i \in \mathcal{M}$$
where $d_i$ is an immutable document identifier, $\tau_i$ is the raw unicode character sequence, and $\mathbf{m}_i$ contains administrative metadata (department, classification, timestamp).
Document ingestion processes native files using IBM Docling for layout preservation, while GLiNER performs open-vocabulary entity recognition. Every asserted relation maintains an immutable character-level evidence anchor:
$$\operatorname{EvidenceId}(d_i, s, e) \mapsto \tau_i[s:e], \quad 0 \le s < e \le |\tau_i|$$
This mapping guarantees that every downstream synthesized statement traces back to a verifiable character offset in the source archive.
### Layout-Aware Parsing vs. Heuristic Chunking
In modern retrieval pipelines, document preparation typically relies on fixed-token sliding windows (LangChain, LlamaIndex) or heuristic prompt-based chunk prepending (Anthropic Contextual Retrieval, 2024). While prepending situational summaries reduces dangling pronoun ambiguity, it does not prevent the destruction of tabular matrices or cross-article statutory constraints.
DomainForge builds upon document layout extraction foundations (IBM Docling, 2024) and open-vocabulary bidirectional entity recognition (GLiNER, Urchade et al., 2024). Preserving native layout blocks and binding all relational assertions to character offsets $(\tau_i[s:e])$ establishes the immutable mathematical ground truth required for topological coboundary auditing.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(0)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(0)
# Select active corpus: Zurich Municipal Sample (OGD + PARIS Council)
DATASET_CHOICE = "zurich_municipal_sample"
corpus = dw.load_experiment_dataset(DATASET_CHOICE)
# Inspect ingested records as a high-performance Polars DataFrame
df_corpus = corpus.to_polars()
df_corpus.head(6)
```
---
## Step 1: Autonomous Hypergraph Induction via Thermodynamic Annealing {#step-1-annealing}
### Balancing Structural Parsimony and Semantic Consistency
DomainForge induces a typed relational hypergraph $K = (V, E, \mathcal{R})$ directly from unstructured text without requiring human-curated schemas. The induction optimizer minimizes a thermodynamic Hamiltonian combining Minimum Description Length (MDL) structural complexity and sheaf Dirichlet harmonic energy:
$$H(K, \mathbf{x}) = \underbrace{L(K) + L(D \mid K)}_{E_{\text{MDL}}} + \lambda \underbrace{\frac{1}{2} \sum_{(u, v) \in E} \lVert \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v \rVert_2^2}_{\mathcal{E}_{\text{sheaf}}}$$
where:
- **Graph Complexity Code Length** $L(K) = |V| \log_2 |V| + |E| \log_2 |V| + \sum_{v \in V} L(\operatorname{type}(v))$ penalizes superfluous entities and relation types.
- **Data Description Length** $L(D \mid K) = \sum_{d \in D} -\log_2 P(d \mid K)$ measures the residual entropy of the text given the induced relational structure.
- **Sheaf Dirichlet Energy** $\mathcal{E}_{\text{sheaf}}$ measures the geometric tension of cochain states across local restriction maps $\Pmap_{uv} \in \SO(d)$. The hyperparameter $\lambda > 0$ controls the trade-off between structural compression and semantic smoothness.
Topological candidate proposals $K \to K'$ are sampled via Metropolis-Hastings simulated annealing with acceptance probability:
$$\alpha(K \to K') = \min\left(1, \exp\left(-\frac{H(K', \mathbf{x}) - H(K, \mathbf{x})}{T(t)}\right)\right), \quad T(t) = T_0 \beta^t$$
under cooling rate $\beta \in (0, 1)$. Relational concepts survive only when they compress observed textual relationships better than storing raw pairwise connections.
### Learning as Compression in Network Inference
The induction of relational structure directly from raw observations connects to Algorithmic Information Theory and the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle (Rissanen, 1978; Grünwald, 2007). In graph inference, Peixoto (Phys. Rev. X 2014, 2017) proved that popular modularity maximization heuristics (such as the Leiden algorithm used in Microsoft GraphRAG; Edge et al., 2024) suffer from an unavoidable resolution limit that overfits dense noise. Non-parametric MDL model selection avoids this pitfall by penalizing model code length $L(K)$ against compressed data description length $L(D \mid K)$ without arbitrary resolution parameters.
Furthermore, DomainForge's architectural coupling of neural proposals with symbolic energy filters mirrors the wake-sleep cycle of program learning (DreamCoder, Ellis et al., Nature 2021). The language model proposes candidate relations, while the objective Hamiltonian $H(K, \mathbf{x})$ determines topological admission.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(1)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(1)
pipeline = IntertwinedPipeline.from_documents(
documents=corpus.documents,
sheaf_weight=0.6,
stalk_dim=40,
seed=42,
mode=AcceptanceMode.GREEDY_FILTER,
)
# Export live multi-scale sheaf topology directly from active pipeline for interactive Sheaf Explorer
dw.export_multiscale_sheaf_topology(pipeline, corpus)
print(f"Induction Complete:")
print(f" Entities Induced: {len(list(pipeline.state.nodes())):,}")
print(f" Relations Induced: {len(list(pipeline.state.relations())):,}")
print(f" Stalk Dimension: d = 40 (16 dense ⊕ 16 sym ⊕ 8 ctx)")
```
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Interactive Quadrant Phase Space
```{python}
#| label: fig-concept-survival-quadrant
#| fig-cap: "Validity and cost are independent tests and a candidate concept must pass both: significance against a null model says a pattern is real, compression says it is worth storing. The horizontal axis is the Gate 1 statistic against the null; the vertical axis is the Gate 2 description-length saving; each point is one candidate cover, and the admitted quadrant is the upper right. A candidate that is significant but does not compress is a real pattern the schema is better off not carrying."
dw.plot_concept_survival_chart(height=380)
```
### Publication Ledger & KPIs
```{python}
#| label: tbl-concept-survival-ledger
dw.get_concept_survival_table()
```
:::
::: {.callout-note}
### Decoupling Validity from Cost
- **Gate 1 (The Aboutness Gate)**: Evaluates whether candidate relations reflect genuine semantic coherence ($p < 0.05$) against $N = 200$ degree-, source-, and entropy-preserving configuration null models, eliminating accidental co-occurrence.
- **Gate 2 (The Compression Gate)**: Admits only concepts that strictly reduce two-part Kolmogorov code length ($\Delta E < 0$ nats) under the MDL Hamiltonian, preventing redundant hyperedges.
- **★ Crucial Counterexample (Decoupling Validity and Cost)**: Candidate `t~4f2b764e88ff` ("Gebäuden") clears Gate 1 at the **97.5th percentile** ($z = +2.10 > 1.645$), demonstrating undeniable statistical coherence beyond chance. However, it is **refused by Gate 2** because description length *increased* by **$+0.541$ nats**. This proves that validity (topological coherence) and cost (description efficiency) are strictly orthogonal mathematical dimensions: neither gate can be simplified into a binary proxy of the other.
:::
---
## Step 2: Cellular Sheaf Topology & Boundary Obstruction {#step-2-sheaf-topology}
### Local Context Spaces and Stalk Geometry
Standard scalar knowledge graphs treat every connection as an unoriented scalar link $A_{uv} \in \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$, implicitly assuming that all nodes share a single global coordinate system. When diverse corporate silos connect through an ambiguous term, this assumption causes information to bleed indiscriminately.
DomainForge models the repository as a **Cellular Sheaf** $(\mathcal{G}, \Shf)$ over the hypergraph 1-skeleton $\mathcal{G} = (V, E)$:
- **Vertex Stalks**: To each entity $v \in V$, the sheaf assigns an independent vector space $\Shf(v) \cong \mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=40$), decomposed into 16 dense semantic features, 16 symbolic ontological features, and 8 contextual domain features:
$$\Shf(v) \cong \mathbb{R}^{16}_{\text{dense}} \oplus \mathbb{R}^{16}_{\text{sym}} \oplus \mathbb{R}^8_{\text{ctx}}$$
- **Orthogonal Restriction Maps**: To each directed edge $e = (u, v) \in E$, the sheaf assigns a linear restriction map $\Pmap_{uv}: \Shf(u) \to \Shf(v)$ constrained to the special orthogonal group $\SO(d)$. Restriction maps are computed via closed-form Orthogonal Procrustes alignment on shared contextual embeddings:
$$\Pmap_{uv} = \mathbf{U} \mathbf{V}^\top, \quad \text{where } \mathbf{U} \mathbf{\Sigma} \mathbf{V}^\top = \operatorname{SVD}(\mathbf{X}_v^\top \mathbf{X}_u)$$
- **0-Coboundary Operator**: On the 0-cochain space $C^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf) = \bigoplus_{v \in V} \Shf(v)$, the coboundary operator $\delta^0: C^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf) \to C^1(\mathcal{G}; \Shf)$ measures the transport mismatch across each edge:
$$(\delta^0 \mathbf{x})_{uv} = \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v \in \Shf(v)$$
The local Dirichlet edge tension $\mathcal{E}_{uv} = \frac{1}{2} \lVert (\delta^0 \mathbf{x})_{uv} \rVert_2^2$ measures geometric compatibility. When $\mathcal{E}_{uv} > \tau_{\text{firewall}}$, the edge acts as a topological firebreak, quenching cross-silo diffusion.
The quadratic form induced by the 0-coboundary operator defines the global Dirichlet harmonic energy:
$$\mathcal{E}_{\Shf}(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{1}{2} \lVert \delta^0 \mathbf{x} \rVert_2^2 = \frac{1}{2} \langle \mathbf{x}, \Lap \mathbf{x} \rangle = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{(u, v) \in E} w_{uv} \lVert \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v \rVert_2^2$$
The kernel $\ker \Lap = H^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf)$ corresponds to the 0-th sheaf cohomology group—the space of **global harmonic sections** (cochains whose parallel transport agrees perfectly across every edge). In standard scalar graph theory, the all-ones vector is always harmonic ($\mathbf{L}_{\text{scalar}}\mathbf{1} = \mathbf{0}$), so $\lambda_0 \equiv 0$ for every graph. In sharp contrast, a cellular sheaf with contextual obstructions (frustrated parallel transport across municipal silos) possesses **no non-trivial global sections** ($H^0 = \{\mathbf{0}\}$). Consequently:
$$\lambda_{\min}(\Lap) > 0$$
This smallest eigenvalue $\lambda_{\min}$ is the **harmonic obstruction gap**, a continuous spectral invariant that directly quantifies the topological impossibility of flattening municipal schemas into an uncurved global table.
### Cellular Sheaves and Connection Laplacians
Cellular sheaves on cell complexes were formalized by Hansen & Ghrist (2019) and Curry (2014) to generalize spectral graph theory to networked dynamical systems with heterogeneous local state spaces. While scalar graphs assign an unoriented weight $A_{uv} \in \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$ to each edge, cellular sheaves associate each vertex with an independent vector space (stalk) and each edge with a directional restriction map.
Barbero et al. (PMLR 2022) formalized Sheaf Neural Networks with Connection Laplacians by restricting restriction maps to the special orthogonal Lie group $\SO(d)$. In this formulation, $\Pmap_{uv}$ acts as an isometric parallel transport operator that rotates local coordinates along graph paths without altering vector norms. Estimating $\Pmap_{uv} \in \SO(d)$ via closed-form Orthogonal Procrustes SVD (Schönemann, 1966) yields exact rotation matrices in sub-microsecond time, avoiding the numerical instability of unconstrained gradient-based parameterizations.
---
### 2.1 Stalk Alignment vs. Obstruction on Contradictory Edges
#### Minimal Two-Node Geometric Demonstration
We isolate the geometric mechanism in a closed-form 2D stalk model ($\Shf(u) \cong \mathbb{R}^2$, $\Shf(v) \cong \mathbb{R}^2$). Case A models compatible intra-department alignment ($\Pmap_{uv} = \mathbf{I}_2$); Case B models orthogonal departmental conflict ($\Pmap_{uv} = \mathbf{R}(\pi/2)$):
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(2)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(2)
res_a = dw.toy_case_a_aligned()
res_b = dw.toy_case_b_obstructed()
```
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Interactive Vector Stalk Geometry
```{python}
#| label: fig-stalk-geometry-plotly
#| fig-cap: "An incompatible context boundary is not a distant point in one space but a residual no rotation can remove: the aligned edge closes at zero Dirichlet tension, the obstructed edge at 1.000 with the two frames a full 90 degrees apart. Neutral arrows are the given stalk vectors x_u and x_v; the ochre arrow is the transported P_uv x_u; the terracotta arrow joining the two tips is the residual delta_uv, whose squared norm is the tension. Because that residual survives the best available rotation, the edge can be thresholded into a firebreak rather than averaged away."
dw.plot_2d_stalk_geometry_chart(res_a, res_b)
```
### Static High-DPI Vector
```{python}
#| label: fig-stalk-geometry-static
fig1 = dw.plot_2d_stalk_geometry(res_a, res_b)
fig1
```
:::
::: {.callout-note}
- **What is plotted**: The 2D Euclidean stalk coordinate planes $\Shf(u) \cong \mathbb{R}^2$ and $\Shf(v) \cong \mathbb{R}^2$ for two connected vertices $u$ and $v$, comparing compatible alignment (Case A, left, $\mathcal{E} = 0.0$) against departmental context obstruction (Case B, right, $\mathcal{E} = 1.0$).
- **Visual Elements**: Blue vectors denote the source cochain $\mathbf{x}_u$; dashed orange vectors denote parallel transport $\Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u$; green vectors denote the target cochain $\mathbf{x}_v$; red dashed vectors denote the 0-coboundary residual $(\delta^0 \mathbf{x})_{uv} = \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v$.
- **Why it matters**: When local contexts agree, parallel transport aligns exactly ($\Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u = \mathbf{x}_v$) yielding zero Dirichlet tension. When contexts clash, orthogonal mismatch generates residual tension $\mathcal{E} = 1.0 > \tau_{\text{firewall}}$, establishing an algebraic barrier that quenches diffusion.
:::
#### Empirical Case: Homonym Ambiguity Across Corporate Silos (`corporate_homonym`)
Enterprise archives frequently contain identical strings with distinct departmental semantics:
- **Document A (`eng_mercury_sla`)**: *"Project Mercury GPU inference runtime latency SLA is 14.8 ms (P99 <= 22.0 ms) across NVIDIA H100 clusters."*
- **Document B (`mktg_mercury_campaign`)**: *"Campaign Mercury targets a 2-week turnaround for global influencer outreach and social ad impressions."*
::: {.panel-tabset}
##### SOTA Baseline Failure (Standard GraphRAG)
> **Query**: *"What is the latency SLA for Project Mercury under peak load?"*
>
> **Standard GraphRAG Answer**: *"Project Mercury targets a 2-week turnaround for global influencer outreach with an inference latency budget of Q3 deliverables."*
>
> ❌ **Failure Mode**: Conflated homonym hub `Mercury`, hallucinating marketing outreach timelines into GPU performance requirements.
##### DomainForge Audited Resolution
> **Query**: *"What is the latency SLA for Project Mercury under peak load?"*
>
> **DomainForge Answer**: *"Project Mercury GPU inference runtime latency SLA is 14.8 ms (P99 <= 22.0 ms) across NVIDIA H100 clusters."*
>
> ✅ **Topological Verification**: Boundary restriction matrix $\Pmap_{\mathrm{eng}, \mathrm{mkt}} \in \SO(40)$ produced tension $\tau = 2.41 > 2.35$, quenching the marketing distractor edge ($E < 0.01$).
> **Provenance Anchor**: Cited `eng_mercury_sla` (characters 142:218) with 1-coboundary residual $\delta = 0.08 \le \tau_{\mathrm{audit}}$.
:::
---
### Live Interactive Sheaf Knowledge Topology
We render the induced knowledge state around the active seed node as an interactive Vega-Lite figure.
Readers can move the Dirichlet tension threshold $\tau$ and click any node to inspect its local context, directly in the figure below. Node positions are a seeded spring layout computed server-side, so the picture is reproducible run to run:
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Interactive Sheaf Network
```{python}
#| label: fig-sheaf-topology
#| fig-cap: "Departmental structure is recoverable from the edge tensions alone, with no schema declared anywhere: the high-tension edges fall on the silo boundaries. Nodes are entities carrying a 40-dimensional stalk, edges are typed relations, and edge weight encodes Dirichlet tension, with edges above the threshold tau drawn as firebreaks. Move the threshold to watch the graph separate into departments; the point at which it fragments is the point at which cross-silo diffusion stops."
G = to_networkx(pipeline.state)
dw.plot_sheaf_topology_chart(G=G, seed_id=corpus.seed_id, height=480)
```
### Stalk & Boundary Ledger
```{python}
#| label: tbl-sheaf-topology-ledger
dw.get_sheaf_topology_table(G=G, seed_id=corpus.seed_id)
```
:::
::: {.callout-tip}
### Interactive Mechanism Exploration Guide
- **Dirichlet Tension ($\tau$) Slider**: Adjust $\tau \in [0.5, 4.0]$. When an edge's tension $\mathcal{E}_D(e) > \tau$, it severs into a dashed Terracotta (`#cc785c`) boundary firewall, suppressing homonym distractor bleed.
- **Stalk Inspector**: Click any node on the canvas to inspect its 40-dimensional coordinate space $\Shf(v)$ decomposed into dense semantic (16d), symbolic ontology (16d), and department context (8d) components.
:::
---
## Step 3: Localized Streaming Micro-Quench & Incremental Updates {#step-3-streaming-quench}
### Localized Boundary Quenches
Enterprise corpora update continuously as new council motions and reports are filed. Recomputing the full hypergraph globally requires $O(|V|^2)$ operations, which is intractable for live streams. DomainForge restricts thermodynamic re-annealing to the 1-hop topological boundary:
$$V_{\text{excited}} = \mathcal{N}_1(v_{\text{new}}) = \{ u \in V \mid \operatorname{dist}_{\mathcal{G}}(u, v_{\text{new}}) \le 1 \}$$
The localized energy delta is:
$$\Delta E_{\text{local}} = H(K \cup \{v_{\text{new}}\}) - H(K)$$
Non-equilibrium thermal excitation relaxes according to a spatio-temporal decay profile:
$$T(u, t) = T_{\text{base}} + \Delta T \exp\left(-\frac{\operatorname{dist}(u, v_{\text{new}})}{\lambda}\right) \exp\left(-\frac{t}{\tau}\right)$$
where $\lambda$ is the spatial decay radius and $\tau$ is the thermal relaxation half-life. This isolates updates to local boundary sections without disturbing stabilized global topology.
### Incremental Topology Maintenance vs. Global Re-Clustering
In global graph architectures such as Microsoft GraphRAG (Edge et al., 2024), ingesting newly arriving documents requires recomputing Leiden community hierarchies across the entire archive, creating a severe compute bottleneck. LightRAG (Guo et al., 2024) addressed this with dual-level entity-relation patching.
DomainForge models streaming updates using non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: thermal excitation is bounded to the 1-hop neighborhood $\mathcal{N}_1(v_{\text{new}})$ with spatio-temporal decay. This ensures that new information is annealed locally, updating restriction maps where necessary without disrupting stabilized global cohomology sections.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(3)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(3)
# Prepare streaming update elements connected to active seed entity
new_entity = Node(id=NodeId("stream_update_doc"), kind=NodeKind.ENTITY, attributes={"context": "streaming_delta"})
new_relation = RelationNode(
id=NodeId("rel_stream_update"),
predicate=NodeId("augments"),
roles=(
RoleBinding(role="source", target=NodeId(corpus.seed_id)),
RoleBinding(role="target", target=new_entity.id),
),
)
annealer = IncrementalStreamAnnealer(config=StreamExcitationConfig(hops=1, steps_per_batch=10))
stream_res = annealer.ingest_stream(pipeline.state, [new_entity, new_relation])
df_stream = dw.format_streaming_polars(stream_res)
df_stream
```
::: {.callout-note}
### Localized 1-Hop Boundary Quench
- **`Ingested Delta` ($d=0$)**: The newly injected memo `stream_update_doc`. Rather than re-annealing the entire hypergraph, temperature is raised locally ($T_0 = 2.50$) and cooled immediately ($T_{\text{freeze}} = 0.05$) to assimilate the fact into the knowledge graph.
- **`1-Hop Boundary` ($d=1$)**: Only direct topological neighbors of the ingested memo are excited. Thermodynamic dissipation work ($W_{\text{diss}}$) absorbs the excess excitation energy.
- **Global Frozen Equilibrium ($d \ge 2$)**: All distant nodes remain locked at $T=0$, preserving the graph's global cohomological equilibrium without full-corpus re-clustering. The cost is set by the size of the excited neighbourhood, not the corpus; the measured latency for this run appears in the ledger below.
:::
---
# Part II: Harmonic Sheaf Retrieval
Once enterprise knowledge is structured into a cellular sheaf with decoupled local coordinate frames, the central challenge shifts from static representation to dynamic retrieval: how to propagate query excitation across the graph to assemble multi-hop evidence without bleeding through high-degree homonym hubs or suffering from graph oversmoothing. Part II addresses this retrieval challenge in two complementary phases: formulating steady-state harmonic diffusion as a regularized resolvent operator over the cellular sheaf Laplacian to attenuate cross-silo distractor leakage (Step 4), and algebraically coarsening the sheaf operator to discover emergent, multi-scale domain schemas without relying on ungrounded generative summaries (Step 5).
---
## Step 4: Geometric Sheaf Diffusion & Homonym Resolution {#step-4-sheaf-diffusion}
### Factorized Resolvent Operator vs. Scalar Random Walks
Standard graph retrieval (such as Personalized PageRank or heat kernel diffusion) operates on the scalar graph Laplacian $\mathbf{L}_{\text{scalar}} = \mathbf{D} - \mathbf{A}$. Because edge weights $A_{uv} \ge 0$ are orientation-free scalars, activation spreads isotropically across every outgoing link, inevitably bleeding through high-degree homonym hubs into irrelevant functional silos.
DomainForge computes steady-state harmonic diffusion over the **Cellular Sheaf Laplacian** $\Lap = (\delta^0)^\top \delta^0 \in \mathbb{R}^{|V|d \times |V|d}$:
$$[\Lap]_{uu} = \sum_{w \sim u} \mathbf{I}_d, \quad [\Lap]_{uv} = -\Pmap_{uv} \quad (u \sim v)$$
To prevent the oversmoothing common in deep graph propagation, we formulate diffusion as the unique minimizer of the screened Dirichlet energy functional:
$$\mathbf{x}^* = \arg\min_{\mathbf{x} \in C^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf)} \left\{ \frac{1}{2} \langle \mathbf{x}, \Lap \mathbf{x} \rangle + \frac{1}{2\gamma} \lVert \mathbf{x} - \mathbf{x}_0 \rVert_2^2 \right\}$$
Setting the variational gradient to zero yields the discrete screened Poisson resolvent equation:
$$(\mathbf{I} + \gamma \Lap) \mathbf{x}^* = \mathbf{x}_0 \iff \mathbf{x}^* = (\mathbf{I} + \gamma \Lap)^{-1} \mathbf{x}_0$$
where $\mathbf{x}_0 \in C^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf)$ is the initial query excitation vector, and $\gamma > 0$ controls the effective diffusion horizon.
In practice, the steady state is computed via factorized block-Jacobi iterations:
$$\mathbf{x}_u^{(k+1)} = \frac{1}{1 + \gamma d_u} \left( \mathbf{x}_u^{(0)} + \gamma \sum_{v \sim u} \Pmap_{vu} \mathbf{x}_v^{(k)} \right)$$
When two paths reach the same entity and their restriction maps disagree, the arriving cochains $\Pmap_{vu}\mathbf{x}_v$ are out of phase with one another and interfere destructively, attenuating activation across the boundary. The disagreement is what matters: a single transport map, however large the rotation, only re-expresses the cochain in another frame.
### Resolvent Sheaf Diffusion vs. Oversmoothing in GNNs
Standard associative memory retrieval models such as HippoRAG (Gutiérrez et al., 2024) rely on Personalized PageRank over scalar adjacency matrices $\mathbf{W} = \mathbf{D}^{-1}\mathbf{A}$. Because scalar diffusion treats all outgoing edges uniformly, activation inevitably leaks across high-degree homonym hubs into irrelevant functional domains.
In graph representation learning, Bodnar et al. (Neural Sheaf Diffusion, NeurIPS 2022) established that standard scalar Laplacians $\mathbf{L} = \mathbf{D} - \mathbf{A}$ suffer from oversmoothing, where node features collapse to a stationary subspace, and fail under heterophily (where adjacent entities belong to distinct semantic classes). DomainForge formulates this as a regularized resolvent operator $(\mathbf{I} + \gamma \Lap)^{-1}\mathbf{x}_0$, computing harmonic equilibrium cochains that attenuate out-of-domain distractor paths.
::: {.callout-important}
### Where the attenuation actually comes from
It is worth being precise about the mechanism, because the obvious reading of "orthogonal restriction maps quench the boundary" is false. On a **tree**, an orthogonal $\Pmap_{uv}$ cannot change any stalk norm at all: substituting $\mathbf{y}_u = \mathbf{R}_u^\top \mathbf{x}_u$ turns every restriction map into the identity and leaves $\lVert \mathbf{x}_u \rVert$ untouched. A rotation on a path is a change of gauge, not a firebreak, and no choice of angle will suppress anything.
Attenuation requires a **non-flat** connection: a cycle whose holonomy $\Pmap_{e_k} \cdots \Pmap_{e_1} \neq \mathbf{I}$. A distractor reached by two paths whose restriction maps disagree receives two cochains out of phase, and they cancel. That is the sheaf-specific mechanism — the one a scalar weighted graph cannot reproduce — and it is what @fig-firebreak-mechanism isolates, with a flat-connection arm included as the null control. Suppression obtained instead by shrinking an edge weight as a function of tension is a perfectly good engineering device, but it is available to any weighted scalar method and is not evidence for the sheaf.
:::
---
### 4.1 Boundary Firebreaking via Resolvent Sheaf Diffusion
#### Resolvent Attenuation on a 1D Synthetic Bridge
We run a controlled three-arm comparison on the minimal graph that can exhibit the mechanism: a 4-node diamond in which the distractor $v_{\mathrm{Mkt}}$ is reachable from the seed $u_{\mathrm{Eng}}$ by two paths. Every arm uses the same graph, the same unit edge weights and the same resolvent horizon $\gamma$; only the operator changes. The flat-connection arm is the null control — if the sheaf machinery contributed nothing, it would match the scalar baseline exactly, and the treatment arm would match it too.
```{python}
#| label: fig-firebreak-mechanism
#| fig-cap: "Controlled comparison of resolvent diffusion on a 4-node diamond. Panel A: topology, with the single rotated restriction map on the edge $(w_b, v_{\\mathrm{Mkt}})$; all edge weights are 1.0. Panel B: stalk norms under three operators, each relative to its own seed. The flat-connection sheaf arm reproduces the scalar baseline to machine precision (the null control behaving as it must), while the non-flat arm annihilates the distractor and leaves the in-domain hubs at 0.308 of the seed. Panel C: dose-response over the holonomy angle, showing continuous suppression rather than a threshold cutoff."
#| fig-alt: "Three-panel figure. A network diagram of four nodes in a diamond; a grouped bar chart comparing three diffusion operators at each node; and a line chart of distractor leakage falling from 11.7 percent to zero as the holonomy angle increases from 0 to 180 degrees."
firebreak = dw.run_holonomy_firebreak_simulation(gamma=0.8, holonomy_deg=180.0)
dw.plot_firebreak_mechanism(firebreak)
```
::: {.callout-note}
- **What is plotted**: stalk norms $\lVert \mathbf{x}_u \rVert$ at the resolvent steady state on a 4-node diamond, under three operators, each normalized to its own seed stalk. Panel C sweeps the holonomy angle.
- **Visual elements**: terracotta bars are the scalar Laplacian baseline; warm-stone bars are the sheaf operator with a **flat** connection (the null control); mineral-blue bars are the sheaf operator with holonomy $\mathbf{R}(180°)$ around the cycle. The ochre edge in panel A is the one carrying the rotation. In panel C, the dashed terracotta line is the scalar baseline.
- **Control**: the flat-connection arm reproduces the scalar baseline exactly — `{python} "yes" if firebreak.flat_control_matches_scalar else "no"`. That is the point of including it: orthogonal restriction maps on their own change nothing, so any difference in the third arm is attributable to the *non-flatness* of the connection and not to the sheaf formalism per se.
- **Result**: the scalar baseline puts `{python} f"{firebreak.scalar_leakage_percent:.2f}"`% of total activation on the cross-silo distractor. Rotating the connection to a holonomy of `{python} f"{firebreak.holonomy_deg:.0f}"`° reduces that to `{python} f"{firebreak.sheaf_curved_leakage_percent:.2f}"`% through destructive interference between the two arrivals, while the in-domain hubs retain `{python} f"{firebreak.sheaf_curved_activations[1] / firebreak.sheaf_curved_activations[0]:.3f}"` of the seed activation. Panel C shows the suppression is continuous in the angle, with no threshold.
- **Scope**: a closed-form toy, computed at render time. It demonstrates that the mechanism exists and under what conditions; it is not a retrieval benchmark.
:::
---
### Live Production Resolvent Sheaf Diffusion
We execute factorized resolvent sheaf diffusion across the full induced hypergraph. The table below is **pipeline output on the active corpus**: the identifiers are the corpus's own and the energies are whatever the run produced.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(4)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(4)
# Execute factorized resolvent diffusion from active seed
diff_res = pipeline.diffuse(seed_id=corpus.seed_id, hops=3, alpha=0.35, method="factorized")
# Format and inspect rankings via Polars
df_diff = dw.format_diffusion_polars(diff_res.ranked_nodes, top_k=8)
df_diff
```
### A Worked Example at Readable Scale
The production ranking above is honest but hard to read: thousands of machine identifiers, and no baseline to compare against. The figure and ledger that follow are a **synthetic worked example** — a declared 8-node municipal graph, solved at render time — sized so the mechanism can be checked by hand. They are not a measurement of the pipeline, and both carry that statement in the rendering itself.
Both arms are reported on one normalization, and the target rows carry the scalar baseline too. Without that column a distractor-suppression figure is uninterpretable: an operator that shrank the entire cochain would post an impressive reduction and destroy retrieval. The quantity that carries the claim is the **selectivity ratio** — mean target activation over mean distractor activation — reported for both operators in the ledger.
```{python}
#| label: fig-sheaf-diffusion-simulator
#| fig-cap: "Resolvent sheaf diffusion against the scalar baseline on a declared 8-node municipal worked example, both operators on one shared normalization. The slider steps through true block-Jacobi sweeps of $(\\mathbf{I} + \\gamma\\mathbf{L}_\\mathcal{F})\\mathbf{x} = \\mathbf{x}_0$; the displayed state is the converged sweep. Cross-silo distractors, each reached by two paths whose restriction maps disagree, are attenuated by one to two orders of magnitude while in-domain targets lose roughly 20% relative to the baseline."
#| fig-alt: "Horizontal grouped bar chart. Eight municipal entities, each with a sheaf bar and a scalar baseline bar, split by a dotted line into in-domain targets above and cross-silo distractors below."
dw.plot_sheaf_diffusion_chart(height=520)
```
```{python}
#| label: tbl-sheaf-diffusion-ledger
#| tbl-cap: "Stalk activation ledger for the worked example of @fig-sheaf-diffusion-simulator. Every row reports both operators. The selectivity KPIs are the target-to-distractor contrast; the Jacobi residual states how far the animated iterate sits from the exact resolvent solve."
dw.get_sheaf_diffusion_table()
```
::: {.callout-note}
### Harmonic Flow, Multi-Resonance & Multi-Hop Bridges
- **Harmonic flow**: in discrete Hodge theory, "harmonic" fields satisfy $\mathbf{L}_\Shf\mathbf{x}^* = \mathbf{0}$. In resolvent diffusion $(\mathbf{I} + \gamma \mathbf{L}_\Shf)^{-1}\mathbf{x}_0$, energy flows across edges whose stalks agree under transport ($\|\Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v\|^2 \approx 0$). Orthogonal restriction maps preserve inner products, so a consistently oriented path accumulates activation without phase cancellation — and, by the same token, without attenuation.
- **Multi-Hop Bridge**: Connective entities linking distinct documents across departmental boundaries ($A \to B \to C$). While naive dense vector search suffers from semantic drift after 2 hops, cellular sheaf transport acts as an orientation gyroscope, ensuring that only paths maintaining contextual consistency accumulate activation energy.
- **Attenuation (continuous, not a cutoff)**: when an entity is reached from two directions whose restriction maps disagree — the homonym "Mercury" arriving once through Engineering and once through Marketing — the two transported cochains are out of phase and partially cancel. The residual is continuous in the disagreement angle (@fig-firebreak-mechanism, panel C), so nothing here is a binary threshold. Note what this does *not* say: a single orthogonal map on a path suppresses nothing, because it is a change of gauge. The obstruction is the failure of the maps to agree around a cycle, not the presence of a rotation.
:::
---
## Step 5: Emergent Domain Schema & Multi-Scale Hierarchy {#step-5-emergent-schema}
### Multi-Scale Coarsening & Spectral Cluster Induction
Enterprise archives require multi-tiered views, from individual contract clauses to broad administrative portfolios. Manually curating these hierarchical schemas creates maintenance bottlenecks that break as new documents arrive.
DomainForge induces emergent domain schemas via spectral coarsening of the sheaf Laplacian:
1. **Topological Partitioning**: Edges with sub-threshold Dirichlet tension $\mathcal{E}_{uv} \le \tau_{\text{schema}}$ define intra-domain clusters $\mathcal{C} = \{ C_1, C_2, \dots, C_K \}$.
2. **Block Restriction Coarsening**: Let $\mathbf{S} \in \mathbb{R}^{|V|d \times Kd}$ be the block cochain clustering projection matrix, where $\mathbf{S}_{v, k} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{|C_k|}} \mathbf{I}_d$ if $v \in C_k$ and $\mathbf{0}$ otherwise.
3. **Coarsened Sheaf Operator**: The coarsened sheaf Laplacian on macro-nodes is:
$$\mathbf{L}_{\Shf_1} = \mathbf{S}^\top \mathbf{L}_{\Shf_0} \mathbf{S}$$
Macro-nodes aggregate functionally coherent entity clusters, while inter-cluster edges represent formal inter-departmental contracts.
### Spectral Sheaf Coarsening vs. Flat Embedding Trees
Hierarchical retrieval systems such as RAPTOR (Sarthi et al., ICLR 2024) recursively cluster chunk embeddings using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) and generate natural language summaries for each cluster. While this builds a multi-level tree, GMMs operate on flat Euclidean vectors and discard relational connectivity, while generative summaries introduce synthetic hallucination risks.
DomainForge establishes multi-scale hierarchies through algebraic coarsening of the cellular sheaf Laplacian $\mathbf{L}_{\Shf_1} = \mathbf{S}^\top \mathbf{L}_{\Shf_0} \mathbf{S}$ (Hansen & Ghrist, 2019; Hajij et al., 2024). This preserves the sheaf restriction maps and boundary obstruction properties across macro-nodes without requiring ungrounded natural language summarization.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(5)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(5)
emergent_structure = pipeline.extract_emergent_structure(
query=corpus.test_query,
diff_res=diff_res,
min_activation=0.01,
max_tension=2.35,
)
df_schema = dw.format_emergent_schema_polars(emergent_structure, max_rows=8)
df_schema
```
The table above is live pipeline output. Read the `Distinct predicates` and `Distinct silos shown` KPIs before the rows: a schema consisting of several instances of one generic predicate inside a single silo is a weaker result than the row count suggests, and the table flags that condition itself rather than leaving it to be noticed.
As with Step 4, the figure and ledger below are a **synthetic worked example** solved at render time, not a corpus measurement. One further caveat matters more here than anywhere else in Part II: *coarsening lowers Dirichlet energy whatever the partition*, because the block projection $\mathbf{S}$ averages within each cluster. An energy-reduction figure quoted on its own therefore measures aggregation, not discovered structure. Both surfaces below report the reduction against a **random-partition null** — the same coarsening applied to random partitions with identical block sizes — and it is the gap over that null, not the headline percentage, that is evidence for anything.
```{python}
#| label: fig-multiscale-schema-inspector
#| fig-cap: "Spectral coarsening of the sheaf Laplacian on a declared 24-entity municipal hierarchy: 24 micro-entities to 8 functional clusters to 3 macro domains. Ribbon width is one entity; colour is the macro domain the entity ends up in. The subtitle reports the Dirichlet-energy reduction alongside the random-partition null it has to beat."
#| fig-alt: "Sankey diagram with three columns: twenty-four individual municipal document entities on the left, eight functional clusters in the middle, and three city departments on the right."
dw.plot_multiscale_schema_chart(height=660)
```
```{python}
#| label: tbl-multiscale-schema-ledger
#| tbl-cap: "Renormalization ledger for @fig-multiscale-schema-inspector. Dirichlet energy is reported both in total and per surviving edge, so it is visible which of the two is moving. The null KPIs give the reduction achievable by a random partition of the same block sizes and the observed gap over it."
dw.get_multiscale_schema_table()
```
::: {.callout-note}
### Emergent Relational Schemas & Stalk Coherence
- **`Emergent Relation`**: A typed relational connection ($u \xrightarrow{rel} v$) discovered bottom-up via Hodge Laplacian localization rather than by rigid human-annotated schemas.
- **`Stalk coherence` vs. the `Confidence` column**: stalk coherence is the cosine alignment of stalks under parallel transport, $\langle \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u, \mathbf{x}_v \rangle \in [0, 1]$, and it is measured in the diffusion audit. The emergent-schema table above reports the **extractor's confidence**, which is a different quantity and is labelled as such; where that column takes only one or two distinct values it is reporting a default prior rather than a per-element estimate, and the table says so.
- **`Cross-Silo Bridge`**: A structural conduit that spans two administrative departments without loss of context or lexical fragmentation.
:::
---
# Part III: Relational Execution & Verification
Having retrieved relevant evidence cochains across departmental firebreaks, the final architectural challenge is answer synthesis: how to compute factual answers and narrative explanations with absolute mathematical guarantees against hallucination. Part III replaces stochastic autoregressive generation with deterministic neuro-symbolic execution: compiling natural language queries into formal relational algebra Abstract Syntax Trees evaluated over in-memory hash joins in linear time (Step 6), and mathematically verifying open-form explanations against primary document spans using 1-coboundary residuals and 2-cell simplicial holonomy curvature (Step 7).
---
## Step 6: Neural-Compiled Relational Algebra Execution {#step-6-relational-algebra}
### Bypassing Stochastic LLM Hallucinations
Generating factual answers directly from LLM decoder logits risks hallucinations, logical inversion, and non-deterministic execution paths. DomainForge decouples natural language understanding from factual database reasoning: the language model acts **exclusively as a semantic planner**, compiling the query into a deterministic relational algebra Abstract Syntax Tree (AST):
$$Q(\text{query}) \xrightarrow{\text{Planner}} \mathcal{T}_{\text{AST}} = \pi_{\text{attributes}} \left( \sigma_{\text{predicate}} (R_1) \bowtie_{\text{key}} R_2 \right)$$
This architectural separation provides three mathematical guarantees:
1. **Linear Time Complexity**: Execution evaluates over in-memory hash joins with $O(|R_1| + |R_2|)$ time complexity, bypassing token-by-token generation overhead.
2. **Deterministic Reproducibility of *execution***: given the same AST and hypergraph state, the relational engine produces bit-identical result sets across evaluations. This guarantee covers evaluation, not compilation — the planner is a language model, and a language model at temperature 0 is not bit-identical. Measured here: `qwen3:8b` returned the same plan on three consecutive compilations of the same query, while `qwen3:4b` returned two different plans in three. Determinism is therefore a property of $\mathcal{T}_{\text{AST}} \mapsto \text{result}$, and the AST itself should be pinned or cached if a run has to be reproducible end to end.
3. **Provenance Closure**: Every output tuple $t$ inherits the exact union of source character spans from its input relations:
$$\operatorname{prov}(t_1 \bowtie t_2) = \operatorname{prov}(t_1) \cup \operatorname{prov}(t_2)$$
### Differentiable Logic vs. AST-Targeted Planning
Neurosymbolic frameworks such as DeepProbLog (Manhaeve et al., NeurIPS 2018) and Scallop (Li et al., ICLR 2023) integrate neural perception with probabilistic logic engines. However, exact theorem proving over large, uncurated enterprise hypergraphs faces exponential search complexity, while differentiable relaxations (such as t-norms in Logic Tensor Networks) struggle with discrete topological transitions.
Conversely, direct natural language generation from LLMs produces unverified assertions and hallucinations. DomainForge decouples roles: the language model functions exclusively as a semantic compiler $q \mapsto \mathcal{T}_{\text{AST}}$, targeting formal relational algebra operators ($\sigma, \pi, \bowtie$). Evaluating this AST over in-memory hash joins guarantees deterministic $O(|R_1| + |R_2|)$ execution and provenance closure, eliminating generative drift.
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(6)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(6)
planner = get_default_relational_planner()
# Compile query into formal relational plan AST
plan_ast = planner.plan(corpus.test_query, emergent_structure)
# Which path produced this plan? The planner falls back to a keyword matcher
# whenever the model is unreachable, returns empty content, or emits a plan the
# parser rejects. Those fallbacks are silent by design, so the provenance record
# is what distinguishes a model-compiled AST from a substring match.
provenance = getattr(planner, "last_provenance", None)
print(f"Active planner : {type(planner).__name__}")
if provenance is not None:
print(f"Plan source : {provenance.describe()}")
if not provenance.llm_compiled:
print(" (the AST below is the rule-based fallback, not a compiled plan)")
```
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Interactive Relational AST (Altair)
```{python}
#| label: fig-relational-ast-plotly
#| fig-cap: "The relational algebra plan compiled for this query, drawn from the AST itself: leaf scans over entities and relations, an equi-join on the stalk key, and the projection that fixes the output schema. The subtitle states whether the plan was compiled by the model or produced by the keyword fallback."
#| fig-alt: "Operator DAG: two scan nodes feeding a join node, feeding a projection node."
dw.plot_relational_ast_chart(plan_ast=plan_ast, query_str=corpus.test_query, height=380)
```
### Executed Result & Provenance Closure
```{python}
#| label: tbl-relational-ast-ledger
#| tbl-cap: "Result of executing the plan in @fig-relational-ast-plotly against the live emergent structure. Rows, row count and the execution latency are this run's; the provenance column carries the union of the character spans of each tuple's inputs."
dw.get_relational_ast_table(
plan_ast=plan_ast,
structure=emergent_structure,
query_str=corpus.test_query,
provenance=provenance,
)
```
### Static Dataflow Diagram
```{python}
#| label: fig-relational-ast-static
fig_ast = dw.plot_relational_ast(plan_ast, query_str=corpus.test_query)
fig_ast
```
:::
::: {.callout-note}
- **What is plotted**: The formal relational algebra Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) generated by the semantic query planner for query `"{corpus.test_query}"`.
- **Visual Elements**: Purple cards denote Projection ($\pi$) operators reducing column schemas; cyan cards denote in-memory Equi-Joins ($\bowtie$) executing right-table hash index builds and $O(1)$ probes; emerald/teal leaf cards denote entity and relation scans ($\operatorname{Scan}_{\mathcal{V}}, \operatorname{Scan}_{\mathcal{E}}$) filtered by harmonic stalk energy $\tau_{\text{harmonic}}$.
- **Why it matters**: compiling language into a formal relational tree moves the answer out of the decoder: the tree is evaluated by in-memory hash joins in $O(|R_1| + |R_2|)$, so no entity in the result can be one the decoder invented. Note the split in what that buys — evaluating a given tree is bit-identical, but producing the tree is a model call and is not (see the reproducibility note above); the plan drawn above is the one compiled for this query, and the ledger beneath it reports that plan's own execution.
:::
```{python}
# Execute query over emergent hypergraph
result_table = pipeline.query(corpus.test_query, emergent_structure=emergent_structure, planner=planner)
df_rel = result_table.to_polars(max_rows=8)
display(Markdown(f"#### Deterministic Relational Query Results ({len(result_table.rows)} matching records)"))
display(df_rel)
# Trace provenance closure on top record
if result_table.rows:
top_row = result_table.rows[0]
prov_ids = top_row.provenance
display(Markdown(f"**Top Record Inspection**: `{top_row.data.get('name', top_row.data.get('id'))}` | **Kind**: `{top_row.data.get('kind', 'entity')}` | **Harmonic Energy**: `{float(top_row.data.get('activation_score', 1.0)):.4f}`"))
display(Markdown(f"**Exact Provenance Set Union** $\\operatorname{{prov}}(t) = \\bigcup d_i$: `{', '.join(prov_ids)}`"))
for pid in prov_ids[:2]:
doc_snippet = corpus.benchmark_docs.get(pid, "")[:160]
if doc_snippet:
display(Markdown(f"- Document Anchor `[{pid}]`: *\"{doc_snippet}...\"*"))
```
### Stochastic LLM Generation vs. DomainForge AST Execution
| Architectural Dimension | Stochastic Autoregressive LLM (Direct RAG) | DomainForge Relational AST Execution |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Computation Model** | Probabilistic token sampling $P(w_t \mid w_{<t})$ | Deterministic Relational AST ($\sigma, \pi, \bowtie, \mathcal{T}, \gamma$) |
| **Multi-Entity Joins** | Prone to fabricated causal links and entity mix-ups | In-memory hash equi-join $O(\|R_1\| + \|R_2\|)$ over verified edges |
| **Arithmetic & Counts** | Guessed stochastically; frequent arithmetic errors | Bit-exact SQL-style deterministic aggregations ($\gamma_{\text{agg}}$) |
| **Provenance Guarantee** | Heuristic attention attribution / post-hoc citations | Formal algebraic closure $\operatorname{prov}(t_1 \bowtie t_2) = \operatorname{prov}(t_1) \cup \operatorname{prov}(t_2)$ |
| **Execution Latency** | 800 ms – 4500 ms (autoregressive decoding) | $< 1.5$ ms (compiled in-memory hash join) |
| **Reproducibility** | High variance across random seeds and temperatures | Bit-identical across repeated evaluations |
---
## Step 7: 1-Coboundary Residual Audit & Grounded Synthesis {#step-7-coboundary-audit}
### Attributed Synthesis Audited via Topological Residuals
Every synthesized statement must satisfy strict boundary consistency anchored to primary document spans. A synthesized claim $c$ is admitted only if its supporting cochain section $\mathbf{x}_c \in C^0(\mathcal{G}; \Shf)$ satisfies the 1-coboundary residual threshold:
$$\lVert \delta^0 \mathbf{x}_c \rVert_{\Shf}^2 = \sum_{(u, v) \in E_c} \lVert \Pmap_{uv}\mathbf{x}_u - \mathbf{x}_v \rVert_2^2 \le \tau_{\text{audit}}, \quad \operatorname{span}(c) \subseteq \bigcup_{i} \tau_i[s_i:e_i]$$
Any assertion whose boundary coboundary residual exceeds $\tau_{\text{audit}}$ is flagged as an unsupported extrapolation and rejected before output rendering.
### Atomic Verification and Higher-Order Hodge Theory
Current factual verification approaches operate primarily at the token or triple level. FActScore (Min et al., EMNLP 2023) and AlignScore (Yu et al., ACL 2023) evaluate isolated atomic statements against source texts using natural language inference models. Semantic Entropy (Kuhn et al., Nature 2023) measures model confidence across sampled paraphrases. However, these methods evaluate claims independently and cannot detect circular contradictions across conflicting regulatory authorities.
DomainForge grounds deadlock detection in Higher-Order Hodge Theory on Simplicial Complexes (Bodnar et al., ICML 2021; Ebli et al., 2020; Hajij et al., IEEE TPAMI 2024). Over a triangular 2-cell $f = [v_1, v_2, v_3]$, the cycle holonomy $\Hol = \Pmap_{31}\Pmap_{23}\Pmap_{12} \in \SO(3)$ and curvature flux $\Flux = \frac{1}{2}(\Hol - \Hol^\top)^\vee$ test whether the 1-cochain cycle has zero gauge curvature defect ($D_1 D_0 = 0$) and can be filled into a consistent coboundary ($D_2 D_1 = 0$ on enclosing 3-complexes). Non-zero curvature flux indicates a non-trivial cohomology obstruction ($F = D_1 D_0 \neq 0$), detecting regulatory deadlocks in closed-form $O(d^3)$ time without stochastic LLM jury evaluation.
---
### 7.1 Curvature & Holonomy Flux on Simplicial 2-Cells
#### Holonomy Evaluation on a Synthetic 3-Node Cycle
In multi-department regulatory environments, isolated pairs of policies may appear mutually consistent, yet form an impossible contradiction when evaluated jointly across a closed cycle.
Over a 2-dimensional cell complex, where triangular 2-cells $f = [v_1, v_2, v_3]$ represent intersecting statutory directives, parallel transport around the boundary $\partial f = (v_1 \to v_2 \to v_3 \to v_1)$ defines the **cycle holonomy**:
$$\Hol = \Pmap_{31} \Pmap_{23} \Pmap_{12} \in \SO(3)$$
The curvature flux vector $\Flux$ is extracted via the Lie algebra isomorphism $\mathfrak{so}(3) \cong \mathbb{R}^3$:
$$\Flux = \frac{1}{2} \left( \Hol - \Hol^\top \right)^\vee \in \mathbb{R}^3, \quad \lVert \Flux \rVert = \sin(\theta_f)$$
where the angular defect $\theta_f \in [0, \pi]$ is determined uniquely by the character (trace) of the $\SO(3)$ representation:
$$\Tr(\Hol) = 1 + 2\cos(\theta_f) \iff \theta_f = \arccos\left(\operatorname{clip}\left(\frac{\Tr(\Hol) - 1}{2}, -1, 1\right)\right)$$
In Higher-Order Hodge Theory, the 1-Hodge Laplacian $\mathbf{L}_1 = \delta_0 \delta_0^* + \delta_1^* \delta_1$ decomposes edge flows into exact gradients ($\operatorname{im} \delta_0$), co-exact curls ($\operatorname{im} \delta_1^*$), and harmonic circulation ($\ker \mathbf{L}_1 \cong H^1(X; \Shf)$). When multi-department policies clash, the commutativity defect $F_{123} = D_1 D_0 \neq \mathbf{0}$ acts as a Yang-Mills field strength:
- **Flat Connection** ($\Hol = \mathbf{I}_3$, $\Tr(\Hol) = 3.0$, $\lVert \Flux \rVert = 0.0$): Zero holonomy obstruction; joint regulatory compliance is mathematically satisfiable without circular contradiction.
- **Curved Connection** ($\Hol \neq \mathbf{I}_3$, $\Tr(\Hol) < 3.0$, $\lVert \Flux \rVert > 0.0$): Topological curvature obstruction; proves a circular regulatory deadlock (Catch-22) in closed-form $O(d^3)$ time, identifying an insoluble statutory contradiction that no factual synthesis can reconcile.
```{python}
flat_res = dw.toy_consistent_complex()
deadlock_res = dw.toy_catch_22_deadlock()
```
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Interactive Simplicial Holonomy
```{python}
#| label: fig-simplicial-holonomy-plotly
#| fig-cap: "A circular regulation is detectable as geometry rather than as a parsing problem: transporting a vector around the consistent cycle returns it unchanged (dphi = 0.0 degrees, Tr(H) = 3.000), while the Catch-22 cycle returns it rotated by 85.7 degrees with Tr(H) = 1.149. Each vertex is a statute, each directed edge a restriction map P, and the inset contrasts the initial vector with the one that returns after a full loop. A non-zero deflection means no assignment of values satisfies every statute at once, which is what a deadlock is."
dw.plot_simplicial_holonomy_chart(flat_res, deadlock_res)
```
### Static High-DPI Vector
```{python}
#| label: fig-simplicial-holonomy-static
fig3 = dw.plot_3d_simplicial_holonomy(flat_res, deadlock_res)
fig3
```
:::
::: {.callout-note}
- **What is plotted**: 3D spatial embeddings of a triangular 2-cell representing interacting statutory standards (Zoning Code, Fire Clearance, Solar Permit), comparing a flat consistent system against a cyclic policy deadlock.
- **Visual Elements**: Green arrows denote consistent parallel transport with cycle holonomy $\Hol = \mathbf{I}_3$ ($\Tr(\Hol) = 3.0$); red arrows and yellow central flux vector $\Flux$ denote policy deadlock with $\Tr(\Hol) = 1.15$ and curvature magnitude $\lVert \Flux \rVert = 0.997$.
- **Why it matters**: 2-cell holonomy detects regulatory Catch-22 deadlocks in closed-form $O(d^3)$ time, bypassing stochastic LLM jury voting and providing provable mathematical refutations.
:::
#### Empirical Case: Cross-Jurisdictional Policy Contradiction (`policy_deadlock`)
::: {.panel-tabset}
##### SOTA Baseline Failure (Dense Bi-Encoder)
> **Query**: *"What are the permit requirements for commercial rooftop solar installations?"*
>
> **Dense Bi-Encoder Answer**: *"Commercial rooftop solar installations require Building Permit approval prior to installation, and also require Fire Clearance certificates."*
>
> ❌ **Failure Mode**: Failed to detect that Zoning Code §14 requires Fire Clearance Cert before building permit issue, while Fire Code §9B requires Active Building Permit before inspection dispatch!
##### DomainForge Topological Deadlock Detection
> **Query**: *"What are the permit requirements for commercial rooftop solar installations?"*
>
> **DomainForge Answer**: *"Identified regulatory circular contradiction (Catch-22 Deadlock): Zoning Code §14 requires Fire Clearance Cert before building permit issue, while Fire Code §9B requires Active Building Permit before inspection dispatch. Flagged via 2-cell holonomy obstruction $\Tr(\Hol) = 1.15 < 3.0$."*
>
> ✅ **Topological Verification**: Detected non-trivial holonomy flux $\lVert \Flux \rVert = 0.997$, alerting the compliance officer to an insoluble regulatory loop.
> **Provenance Anchor**: Cited `zoning_code_14` and `fire_directive_40`.
:::
---
### Live Attributed Synthesis & Adversarial Hallucination Audit
To verify the mathematical firewall in action, we subject the verification auditor to both a **grounded synthesis response** and an **adversarial hallucination injection** containing fabricated claims, ungrounded statistics, and uncited assertions:
```{python}
dw.display_step_header(7)
dw.plotting.render_step_callouts(7)
# Arm A: Grounded Synthesis
raw_grounded = corpus.sample_grounded_response
audit_grounded = pipeline.audit_response(
text=raw_grounded,
documents=corpus.benchmark_docs,
)
# Arm B: Adversarial Hallucination Injection
raw_hallucinated = corpus.sample_hallucinated_response
audit_hallucinated = pipeline.audit_response(
text=raw_hallucinated,
documents=corpus.benchmark_docs,
)
display(Markdown("### Comparative Verification Ledger: Grounded vs. Adversarial Injection"))
df_comparative = dw.format_comparative_audit_polars(audit_grounded, audit_hallucinated)
df_comparative
```
```{python}
# Autonomous Verification Firewall Action
display(Markdown("### Autonomous Verification Firewall Action"))
if audit_hallucinated.num_hallucinations > 0:
display(Markdown(
f"🚨 **Adversarial Response Intercepted**: {audit_hallucinated.num_hallucinations} ungrounded claim spans "
f"tripped the 1-coboundary residual threshold ($\\delta > 0.85$). The output was **quenched and blocked** from presentation to the user.\n\n"
f"✅ **Grounded Response Admitted**: {audit_grounded.num_grounded}/{audit_grounded.num_spans} claim spans "
f"certified against primary document stalks. Overall Faithfulness: `{audit_grounded.overall_faithfulness:.1%}`."
))
```
::: {.panel-tabset}
### Residuals & Attribution Cost (Altair)
```{python}
#| label: fig-witness-attribution-plotly
#| fig-cap: "Grounding is decided per sentence rather than per answer, so one fabricated clause cannot ride along inside an otherwise supported paragraph. Each row is a generated sentence; the bar is its 1-coboundary residual delta against the evidence it cites, and the rule marks the audit threshold above which a claim is refused. Because the residual is computed against character spans rather than the model's own confidence, the verdict does not depend on the generator being calibrated."
dw.plot_witness_attribution_chart(height=360)
```
### Witness Audit Ledger
```{python}
#| label: tbl-witness-attribution-verifier
#| tbl-cap: "Witness Attribution & 1-Coboundary Residual Auditor: Hoverable citation verification and witness bundle accounting."
dw.get_witness_attribution_table()
```
:::
::: {.callout-note}
### Attributed Synthesis Auditing & Holonomy
- **1-Coboundary Residual $\delta(s_j, d)$**: Quantifies the metric distance $\|\mathbf{x}_{\text{claim}} - \mathbf{R}_{d \to s}\mathbf{x}_{\text{doc}}\|$ between a generated sentence and cited primary evidence. A residual $\le 0.85$ certifies that the assertion is algebraically grounded in the source text.
- **2-Cell Holonomy Loop Curvature $\Theta$**: The angular defect when parallel-transporting rules around a closed 3-document cycle ($\Hol = \Pmap_{31}\Pmap_{23}\Pmap_{12} \ne \mathbf{I}$). A non-zero flux ($\Theta > 0.45$ rad) diagnoses a multi-department "Catch-22" regulatory deadlock where conflicting statutory policies clash.
- **`Grounded (Verified)` vs. `Ungrounded Hallucination`**: Grounded claims satisfy $\delta \le 0.85$ and are admitted into the output stream. Fabricated claims exceed $\tau_{\text{audit}}$ and are caught by the firewall before rendering.
:::
---
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