Ibrahim Vandenberg

Contract-Gated Self-Modification: A Deterministic Symbolic Substrate for Bounded Structural Adaptation

Autonomous artificial intelligence is dominated by the autoregressive transformer, a fixed matrix of weights that generates output by statistical continuation. Scaling that model does not by itself supply a formal certificate of the properties autonomous operation requires: an in...

Steering a Frozen Model: Two Hard Limits

One way to enforce a policy on a model, without retraining it, is to steer the model's internal activations as it runs; the motivating application is language-model safety. Because the policy is not part of the weights, it can be revised or replaced without updating them, and one...

Structural Completeness of the Torus-Knot Framework: The Standard Model and Gravity from T3 Topology

We present the consolidated programme of the Unified Quantum Gravity Architectural Framework (UQGAF), in which fundamental particles are modelled as coprime torus knots T(P, Q) on a three-torus vacuum manifold T³ = S¹ × S¹ × S¹ embedded in S³ ≅ SU(2). From this single geometric p...