Interpretability Engine Optimization: Methodology

Abstract

The founding paper proposes the discipline and reports its first evidence. This document stateshow the discipline is practiced — its objective, its principles, its unit of work, its failuremodes, its cycle, its measurement, and the way it is instantiated in a domain. It is written so that a practitioner with no relationship to NSOLVIA can read it and practice. Thatis the test of whether Interpretability Engine Optimization is a discipline rather than a product,and this document exists to pass it. What this document is not. It does not describe how NSOLVIA's own systems implement thediscipline. It specifies the objective and the evaluation discipline; it does not prescribe an imple‐mentation. That separation is deliberate and it is stated in the first principle below. Scope. This methodology is domain-general. The objective it defines, the failure modes itnames, the cycle it describes and the tests it specifies apply wherever a machine must reason or acton business information — commerce, credit, regulatory compliance, clinical information, legaldocuments, public infrastructure, and domains not yet named. Status of the evidence. The discipline has been measured in one domain — commerce —with one instrument and one versioned corpus. That distinction is maintained throughout and it isnot incidental: where this document describes the discipline, it applies to any domain;where it reports evidence, the evidence is from commerce. Every other domain namedhere is named as a candidate, not as an established profile, and the document says so wherever itmatters.