Code and data associated with "The evolution of sex for artificial intelligence - A population-genetic framework for multigenerational model populations". Gilestro, 2026
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Giorgio Gilestro d6a5c5cacd paper (Phase 2): fold hardened E13 into both versions, citation refresh, arXiv package
Speciation section rewritten around the hardened results: alignment
modulo the full function-preserving symmetry group (answers 2606.23607
preemptively), the hybrid-fitness cliff (0.97 -> 0.03), the mu(S)/2
floor, and the pre-registered emergent converse (no isolation without
functional conflict; the merge rescues forgetting specialists) — in the
abstract, §5, §13 ledger, and the accessible version.

Citation refresh (author names verified via arXiv API): concede
First-Extinction Law (Benati 2509.20101) and quantitative-trait collapse
(Yoon 2407.17493) alongside Riis; add verifier-injection (Yi 2510.16657),
Livnat & Papadimitriou (CACM 2016) as the sex-as-computation precursor,
and the adjacent 2024-26 merge/LMC/multi-agent literature (Ainsworth,
Pari, Zhou, Cao, Sharma, Hu, Kozodoi, Li & Shen, Harris, Chen, Tanaka).

arXiv package (paper/arxiv/): md2tex.py — a small block-based
Markdown->LaTeX converter keeping the Markdown as source of truth —
main.tex, generated body.tex, 3 vector figures; builds clean under
tectonic (20 pp; pdflatex hint guarded for arXiv); ARXIV-SUBMISSION.md
carries categories, license note, and a <=1,920-char abstract. 149 tests
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
2026-09-06 12:49:52 +01:00
configs E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
figures E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
hpc hard benchmark: the 7B "fusion wins / no headroom" results were saturation artefacts 2026-07-05 19:13:26 +01:00
paper paper (Phase 2): fold hardened E13 into both versions, citation refresh, arXiv package 2026-09-06 12:49:52 +01:00
results E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
src E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
tasks paper (Phase 2): fold hardened E13 into both versions, citation refresh, arXiv package 2026-09-06 12:49:52 +01:00
tests E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
.gitignore neural: real-MNIST external-validity tier (collapse + grounding) 2026-07-05 09:19:36 +01:00
CLAUDE.md hard benchmark: the 7B "fusion wins / no headroom" results were saturation artefacts 2026-07-05 19:13:26 +01:00
Makefile E13b/c: harden real-weight speciation — full symmetry group + emergent-divergence null 2026-09-06 12:35:14 +01:00
pyproject.toml llm: first real-LLM prototype — recombining specialist LLMs (C2/C4) 2026-07-05 15:48:02 +01:00
README.md paper: reframe the perspective paper around sexual reproduction (v4 -> v5) 2026-07-05 13:53:10 +01:00
uv.lock Layer 1.5: architecture-general neural existence proof 2026-07-04 21:02:49 +01:00

The Lamarckian Society — Layer 1 (analytical core)

A parametric population-genetics model of knowledge transmission across generations of learning agents. Knowledge transmission is modelled literally as a WrightFisher process (not by analogy): a model's knowledge is a distribution p_t over K discrete items; a fixed true distribution p* has a rare tail; each generational step is "sample from the parent (drift) + mix in fresh real samples (grounding/immigration) + refit." Model collapse is the loss of rare alleles under drift.

See paper/blueprint.md (the normative build spec), paper/the-lamarckian-society-v5.md (the perspective paper), and paper/results-summary.md (a summary of all results).

Reproduce

Environment is a uv venv built from the committed, hash-pinned uv.lock — that lockfile is the single source of truth for "it runs" (Layer 1 is pure NumPy/SciPy and bitwise-reproducible from a seed; no container needed).

# one-time: install uv (https://astral.sh/uv)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

uv sync                 # build .venv from uv.lock
make test               # correctness + scientific-validation tests (the spine of trust)
make layer1             # run experiments E1E6
make figures            # regenerate figures from committed results

Layout

src/knowledge/   Layer 1 package (imported as `knowledge`)
configs/layer1/  one YAML per experiment (E1..E6)
figures/         plot_EX.py — read results.parquet only
tests/           test_correctness.py + test_scientific_validation.py (analytic checks)
paper/           blueprint.md, perspective paper, figure_manifest.md
results/         written artifacts (gitignored; hashes tracked in manifest.json)