Solving the Clive Wearing Problem: One-Shot Episodic Memory for Frozen Transformers

Tommi Niemi / Rotko Networks

Hidden-state episodic memory for frozen transformers. No gradients.
Teach via one forward pass, recall via cosine similarity + logit injection.
200-line Python reproduction included.

pip install transformers torch numpy && python python/epimem.py

.gitignore

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+models/*.onnx
+models/*.onnx.data

LICENSE

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README.md

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+<br />
+<div align="center">
+
+  <h3 align="center">Solving the Clive Wearing Problem: One-Shot Episodic Memory for Frozen Transformers</h3>
+
+  <p align="center">
+    Gradient-free persistent learning through hidden-state episodic recall.
+    <br />
+    <a href="paper.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper-Markdown-blue?style=flat-square" alt="Paper"></a>
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+---
+
+## Abstract
+
+Teach a frozen language model new facts **without gradient descent**. Store the model's own hidden states as episodic memories. On recall, inject stored representations as logit biases. One-shot. Persistent. No weight modification.
+
+## Key Result
+
+A frozen Qwen 2.5 0.5B taught three facts about a fictional entity:
+
+| Prompt | Taught | Recalled | Similarity |
+|--------|--------|----------|:---:|
+| "The capital of Zyphraxia is" | "Novaheim" | "Novaheim, a city of 100" | 1.000 |
+| "The ruler of Zyphraxia is" | "Queen Stellara" | "Queen Stellara. She is a beautiful woman" | 1.000 |
+| "The currency of Zyphraxia is" | "Glimmers" | "Glimmers. The currency is divided into" | 1.000 |
+
+**No gradients computed at any point.**
+
+## Quick Start
+
+```bash
+pip install transformers torch numpy
+git clone https://git.rotko.net/tommi/epimem
+cd epimem
+python python/epimem.py
+```
+
+This downloads Qwen 2.5 0.5B from HuggingFace (~1GB), teaches 3 facts, recalls them, saves the memory bank, reloads, and recalls again. Takes ~2 minutes on first run (model download), ~30 seconds after.
+
+### With ONNX (faster, no PyTorch)
+
+```bash
+pip install onnxruntime transformers numpy
+python export_onnx.py          # exports Qwen 2.5 as ONNX to models/
+python python/epimem.py --onnx models
+```
+
+## How It Works
+
+### Teaching (one forward pass, no gradients)
+
+```
+Prompt: "The capital of Zyphraxia is"
+Answer: "Novaheim"
+
+1. backbone("The capital of Zyphraxia is") → hidden state h (896-dim vector)
+2. backbone("The capital of Zyphraxia is Novaheim") → logit biases for "Novaheim"
+3. Store: (key=h, value=logit_biases) in memory bank
+```
+
+### Recall (similarity search + logit injection)
+
+```
+Query: "The capital of Zyphraxia is"
+
+1. backbone(query) → h_q (896-dim vector)
+2. cosine_sim(h_q, stored_key) = 1.000
+3. Inject: logits += stored_logit_biases (per-position)
+4. Generate: "Novaheim, a city of 100..."
+```
+
+### Why hidden states, not text (like RAG)
+
+RAG stores text, re-encodes it each time, consumes context window.
+We store the backbone's own internal representation — no re-encoding, no context consumption.
+
+## Files
+
+```
+python/epimem.py          ← standalone reproduction (~200 lines)
+export_onnx.py            ← ONNX export from HuggingFace
+paper.md                  ← full paper
+results/memory_bank.json  ← example: 896-dim hidden-state vectors
+schema/isis.fbs           ← FlatBuffer schema for memory bank
+schema/organism.fbs       ← FlatBuffer schema for organism state
+models/tokenizer/         ← Qwen 2.5 tokenizer files
+```
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@article{niemi2026clivewearing,
+  title={Solving the Clive Wearing Problem: One-Shot Episodic Memory for Frozen Transformers},
+  author={Tommi Niemi},
+  year={2026},
+  organization={Rotko Networks},
+  url={https://git.rotko.net/tommi/epimem},
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+MIT

export_onnx.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Export Qwen 2.5-0.5B as ONNX for the brain crate.
+
+Exports two models:
+1. backbone.onnx: token_ids → hidden_state at layer 23 (for key computation)
+2. lm_head.onnx: hidden_state → logits (for generation)
+
+Both together = full inference pipeline.
+Separately = teach only needs backbone, not lm_head.
+"""
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import os
+
+
+def export():
+    from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+    print("Loading Qwen 2.5-0.5B...")
+    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        'Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B', torch_dtype=torch.float32, trust_remote_code=True)
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+        'Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B', trust_remote_code=True)
+    model.eval()
+
+    D = model.config.hidden_size  # 896
+    n_layers = model.config.num_hidden_layers  # 24
+    V = model.config.vocab_size
+    target_layer = n_layers - 1  # 23
+
+    print(f"  D={D}, layers={n_layers}, vocab={V}")
+
+    os.makedirs("models", exist_ok=True)
+
+    # ─── Export backbone: tokens → hidden at layer 23 ─────────
+    class BackboneToLayer23(nn.Module):
+        def __init__(self, model, target_layer):
+            super().__init__()
+            self.embed = model.model.embed_tokens
+            self.layers = model.model.layers[:target_layer + 1]
+            self.target_layer = target_layer
+            self.rotary = model.model.rotary_emb
+            self.post_attn_norm = model.model.layers[target_layer].post_attention_layernorm
+
+        def forward(self, input_ids):
+            x = self.embed(input_ids)
+            B, T = input_ids.shape
+            pos = torch.arange(T, device=input_ids.device).unsqueeze(0)
+            pe = self.rotary(x, pos)
+
+            for i, layer in enumerate(self.layers):
+                if i == self.target_layer:
+                    residual = x
+                    x_normed = layer.input_layernorm(x)
+                    attn_out = layer.self_attn(
+                        x_normed, attention_mask=None,
+                        position_embeddings=pe)[0]
+                    x = residual + attn_out
+                    # Return pre-MLP hidden (what CTM/brain receives)
+                    hidden = self.post_attn_norm(x)
+                    # Also complete the layer for full hidden
+                    full = x + layer.mlp(hidden)
+                    return hidden, full
+                else:
+                    x = layer(x, position_embeddings=pe)
+            return x, x
+
+    # ─── Export lm_head: full_hidden → logits ─────────────────
+    class LMHead(nn.Module):
+        def __init__(self, model):
+            super().__init__()
+            # Remaining layers after target + final norm + lm_head
+            self.final_norm = model.model.norm
+            self.lm_head = model.lm_head
+
+        def forward(self, full_hidden):
+            x = self.final_norm(full_hidden)
+            return self.lm_head(x)
+
+    # Export backbone
+    print("Exporting backbone (tokens → hidden)...")
+    backbone = BackboneToLayer23(model, target_layer)
+    dummy_ids = torch.randint(0, V, (1, 32))
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        hidden, full = backbone(dummy_ids)
+        print(f"  hidden: {hidden.shape}, full: {full.shape}")
+
+    torch.onnx.export(
+        backbone, dummy_ids,
+        "models/backbone.onnx",
+        input_names=["input_ids"],
+        output_names=["hidden", "full_hidden"],
+        dynamic_axes={
+            "input_ids": {0: "batch", 1: "seq_len"},
+            "hidden": {0: "batch", 1: "seq_len"},
+            "full_hidden": {0: "batch", 1: "seq_len"},
+        },
+        opset_version=17,
+    )
+    backbone_size = os.path.getsize("models/backbone.onnx")
+    print(f"  Saved models/backbone.onnx ({backbone_size / 1e6:.1f} MB)")
+
+    # Export lm_head
+    print("Exporting lm_head (hidden → logits)...")
+    head = LMHead(model)
+    dummy_hidden = torch.randn(1, 32, D)
+
+    torch.onnx.export(
+        head, dummy_hidden,
+        "models/lm_head.onnx",
+        input_names=["full_hidden"],
+        output_names=["logits"],
+        dynamic_axes={
+            "full_hidden": {0: "batch", 1: "seq_len"},
+            "logits": {0: "batch", 1: "seq_len"},
+        },
+        opset_version=17,
+    )
+    head_size = os.path.getsize("models/lm_head.onnx")
+    print(f"  Saved models/lm_head.onnx ({head_size / 1e6:.1f} MB)")
+
+    # Save tokenizer
+    tokenizer.save_pretrained("models/tokenizer")
+    print(f"  Saved models/tokenizer/")
+
+    # Verify
+    print("\nVerifying ONNX export...")
+    import onnxruntime as ort
+    sess_backbone = ort.InferenceSession("models/backbone.onnx")
+    sess_head = ort.InferenceSession("models/lm_head.onnx")
+
+    test_text = "The capital of France is"
+    ids = tokenizer.encode(test_text, add_special_tokens=False)
+    input_ids = torch.tensor([ids]).numpy()
+
+    hidden_out, full_out = sess_backbone.run(None, {"input_ids": input_ids})
+    logits_out = sess_head.run(None, {"full_hidden": full_out})
+
+    next_token = logits_out[0][0, -1].argmax()
+    predicted = tokenizer.decode([next_token])
+    print(f"  '{test_text}' → '{predicted}'")
+    print(f"  Hidden shape: {hidden_out.shape}")
+    print(f"  Logits shape: {logits_out[0].shape}")
+
+    print("\nDone. Total model size:",
+          f"{(backbone_size + head_size) / 1e6:.1f} MB")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    export()

models/tokenizer/chat_template.jinja

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+{%- if tools %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
+    {%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}
+        {{- messages[0]['content'] }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- 'You are a helpful assistant.' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {{- "\n\n# Tools\n\nYou may call one or more functions to assist with the user query.\n\nYou are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags:\n<tools>" }}
+    {%- for tool in tools %}
+        {{- "\n" }}
+        {{- tool | tojson }}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    {{- "\n</tools>\n\nFor each function call, return a json object with function name and arguments within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags:\n<tool_call>\n{\"name\": <function-name>, \"arguments\": <args-json-object>}\n</tool_call><|im_end|>\n" }}
+{%- else %}
+    {%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + messages[0]['content'] + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+    {%- if (message.role == "user") or (message.role == "system" and not loop.first) or (message.role == "assistant" and not message.tool_calls) %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + message.content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role }}
+        {%- if message.content %}
+            {{- '\n' + message.content }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
+            {%- if tool_call.function is defined %}
+                {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
+            {%- endif %}
+            {{- '\n<tool_call>\n{"name": "' }}
+            {{- tool_call.name }}
+            {{- '", "arguments": ' }}
+            {{- tool_call.arguments | tojson }}
+            {{- '}\n</tool_call>' }}
+        {%- endfor %}
+        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
+        {%- if (loop.index0 == 0) or (messages[loop.index0 - 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
+        {{- message.content }}
+        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
+        {%- if loop.last or (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role != "tool") %}
+            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
+{%- endif %}

models/tokenizer/tokenizer_config.json

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+{
+  "add_prefix_space": false,
+  "backend": "tokenizers",
+  "bos_token": null,
+  "clean_up_tokenization_spaces": false,
+  "eos_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+  "errors": "replace",
+  "extra_special_tokens": [
+    "<|im_start|>",
+    "<|im_end|>",
+    "<|object_ref_start|>",
+    "<|object_ref_end|>",
+    "<|box_start|>",
+    "<|box_end|>",
+    "<|quad_start|>",
+    "<|quad_end|>",
+    "<|vision_start|>",
+    "<|vision_end|>",
+    "<|vision_pad|>",
+    "<|image_pad|>",
+    "<|video_pad|>"
+  ],
+  "is_local": false,
+  "model_max_length": 131072,
+  "pad_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+  "split_special_tokens": false,
+  "tokenizer_class": "Qwen2Tokenizer",
+  "unk_token": null
+}

paper.md

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+# Solving the Clive Wearing Problem: One-Shot Episodic Memory for Frozen Transformers
+
+## Abstract
+
+We enable frozen transformers to form new memories without gradient descent. The model's own hidden states are stored as episodic memories; on recall, they bias token generation through direct logit injection. A frozen Qwen 2.5 0.5B taught three novel facts recalls all three at 100% accuracy. No weights are modified. No gradients are computed. Memories persist to disk across sessions. Code and reproduction: [git.rotko.net/tommi/epimem](https://git.rotko.net/tommi/epimem).
+
+## 1. The Clive Wearing Problem
+
+Clive Wearing lost his hippocampus to encephalitis in 1985. He retained every skill — piano, language, conducting — but could not form a single new memory. Every 7 seconds, he believed he had just woken up for the first time. His diary: "8:31 AM Now I am awake. 8:34 AM Now I am properly awake." Each entry crossed out moments later.
+
+Current LLMs are Clive Wearing. They possess sophisticated capabilities — reasoning, language, world knowledge — but cannot form new memories. Every conversation starts from zero. The context window is their 7-second span. When it clears, everything is gone.
+
+Fine-tuning modifies weights and causes catastrophic forgetting. RAG re-encodes text into the context window every time — no actual learning occurs. LoRA still requires gradients. In-context learning vanishes when the conversation ends.
+
+We give the frozen model a hippocampus: an external episodic memory that stores hidden-state patterns and replays them to bias future processing. The backbone never changes. It just receives hippocampal input that steers its output toward learned associations.
+
+## 2. Method
+
+### 2.1 Architecture
+
+Two components:
+
+**Frozen backbone** (Qwen 2.5 0.5B, 896-dimensional hidden states): The pretrained transformer. Processes input tokens, produces hidden state vectors. Weights are never modified at any point.
+
+**Episodic memory bank**: A key-value store where:
+- **Key**: the backbone's hidden state vector at the final token position — the model's internal representation of the prompt in its own learned space.
+- **Value**: per-position logit biases for the correct continuation tokens — which token to boost at each generation step.
+
+### 2.2 Teaching (one forward pass)
+
+Given a prompt P and desired answer A:
+
+1. **Extract key**: Run backbone on P. Extract hidden state h = backbone(P) at the final token. This 896-dimensional vector encodes the backbone's understanding of the prompt.
+
+2. **Compute logit biases**: Run backbone on the concatenation P+A. At each answer token position, compute the gap between the correct token's logit and the maximum logit. The bias is set to overcome this gap plus a margin:
+
+```
+bias_i = max(max_logit - target_logit + 5.0, 5.0)
+```
+
+This produces one (token_id, boost) pair per answer token.
+
+3. **Store**: Save (key=h, value=[(token_id, bias) per position]) to the memory bank.
+
+One forward pass. No iteration. No loss function. No gradients.
+
+### 2.3 Recall (similarity search + injection)
+
+Given a new query Q:
+
+1. **Extract query key**: h_q = backbone(Q) at the final token.
+
+2. **Search**: For each stored episode, compute cosine similarity between h_q and the stored key. Return the best match above threshold.
+
+3. **Generate with injection**: At each generation step i, if the matched episode has a logit bias for step i, add it to the backbone's logits before sampling. After all biases are applied (answer tokens exhausted), the backbone continues generating freely.
+
+The backbone generates fluent text beyond the taught answer — the logit biases seed the first tokens, and the language model's coherence completes the sentence naturally.
+
+### 2.4 Persistence
+
+The memory bank serializes to JSON: each episode stores the 896-dimensional key vector and the list of (token_id, bias) pairs. Load the file, and all memories are available. No retraining. No warm-up. Instant recall.
+
+### 2.5 Why Hidden States, Not Text
+
+RAG stores text and re-encodes it. This has three costs:
+
+1. **Context window consumption**: retrieved passages compete with the actual input for attention.
+2. **Re-encoding latency**: the backbone must process retrieved text tokens.
+3. **Representation mismatch**: the retrieval embedding space (typically a separate encoder) doesn't match the generative model's internal space.
+
+Storing hidden states eliminates all three. The memory is already in the backbone's native representation. The key and query are produced by the same function — cosine similarity is exact (1.000 for identical prompts). Injection is a single scalar addition to one logit per generation step.
+
+## 3. Experiments
+
+### 3.1 Setup
+
+- **Backbone**: Qwen 2.5 0.5B (896-dim hidden states)
+- **Inference**: PyTorch via HuggingFace `transformers` (also works with ONNX Runtime)
+- **Hardware**: Any machine with Python 3 and ~2GB RAM. No GPU required.
+- **Gradient computation**: None. At no point — not during teaching, recall, or persistence.
+
+### 3.2 One-Shot Fact Learning
+
+We teach three facts about "Zyphraxia" — a word absent from Qwen's training data:
+
+| Prompt | Taught answer | Recalled output | Key similarity |
+|--------|:---:|---|:---:|
+| "The capital of Zyphraxia is" | "Novaheim" | "Novaheim, a city of 100" | 1.000 |
+| "The ruler of Zyphraxia is" | "Queen Stellara" | "Queen Stellara. She is a beautiful woman" | 1.000 |
+| "The currency of Zyphraxia is" | "Glimmers" | "Glimmers. The currency is divided into" | 1.000 |
+
+**Observations**:
+
+1. **Perfect key matching**: cosine similarity 1.000 between query and stored key. Expected — the same backbone produces both vectors from the same prompt.
+
+2. **Fluent continuation**: The backbone generates beyond the taught answer ("a city of 100", "She is a beautiful woman"). The logit biases steer the first few tokens; the language model's own coherence completes naturally.
+
+3. **No hallucination of taught content**: The backbone doesn't "know" Zyphraxia. Without the memory, it generates generic or incorrect continuations. With the memory, it produces the taught answer then continues fluently.
+
+### 3.3 Persistence
+
+The memory bank is saved to `memory_bank.json` (77KB for 3 episodes with 896-dim keys). After reloading from disk, all three facts are recalled identically:
+
+| Test | Result |
+|------|:---:|
+| Pre-save recall | 3/3 correct |
+| Post-reload recall | 3/3 correct |
+
+### 3.4 Reproduction
+
+```bash
+git clone https://git.rotko.net/tommi/epimem
+cd epimem
+pip install transformers torch numpy
+python python/epimem.py
+```
+
+Downloads Qwen 2.5 0.5B from HuggingFace (~1GB, cached after first run). Teaches 3 facts, recalls 6/6 (3 pre-save + 3 post-reload). Runs in ~30 seconds after model is cached.
+
+## 4. Related Work
+
+### Training-Free Episodic Memory
+
+**CAMELoT** (Jang et al., 2024) is the closest prior work: a training-free consolidated associative memory for frozen LLMs. It stores key-value pairs from transformer attention layers, retrieves by cosine similarity, and injects as attention prefixes. Our approach differs in what is stored (logit biases vs KV pairs) and where injection occurs (output logits vs attention mechanism).
+
+**EM-LLM** (Fountas et al., 2024) stores KV pairs from attention heads as episodic events, retrieves by k-NN with temporal contiguity, and prepends retrieved pairs into the context window. The backbone is frozen and no training is required. The key difference: EM-LLM injects at the attention level (KV cache extension), we inject at the output level (logit biases).
+
+**Larimar** (Das et al., 2024) adds episodic memory to frozen LLMs via a memory matrix with pseudo-inverse retrieval. Unlike our approach, Larimar requires training the memory encoder/decoder with a variational objective.
+
+### Retrieval-Augmented Generation
+
+RAG (Lewis et al., 2020) retrieves text passages and inserts them into the context window. The model re-encodes retrieved text each time. We store hidden states and inject logit biases — no re-encoding, no context consumption, no attention cost.
+
+### Knowledge Editing
+
+ROME (Meng et al., 2022) and MEMIT (Meng et al., 2023) edit factual associations by modifying specific weight matrices via rank-one updates. Our method makes zero modifications to any weight.
+
+### Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
+
+The Neural Turing Machine (Graves et al., 2014) and Differentiable Neural Computer (Graves et al., 2016) use gradient-trained read/write controllers. Our memory requires no training.
+
+### What distinguishes this work
+
+All prior training-free episodic memory systems inject at the attention level — modifying KV caches, prepending context, or adding cross-attention. We inject at the logit level: the retrieved memory directly steers which tokens are generated, without touching the model's internal representations. This is simpler (one scalar addition per token per step), cheaper (no attention recomputation), and more interpretable (the bias values directly indicate how strongly each token is boosted).
+
+## 5. Limitations
+
+**Backbone lock-in**: Memories are tied to the specific backbone. Changing the model invalidates all stored keys. Migration requires re-encoding through the new backbone.
+
+**Key collision**: Semantically different prompts with similar hidden states may trigger incorrect recall. A similarity threshold mitigates this but doesn't eliminate it.
+
+**Linear scan**: Retrieval is O(n) over stored episodes. For banks exceeding ~100K episodes, approximate nearest neighbor indexing would be needed.
+
+**Per-position biases**: The current implementation stores biases per generation step. Multi-token answers require one bias per token. This is simple but doesn't generalize to variable-length reformulations of the same answer.
+
+## 6. Conclusion
+
+Frozen transformers cannot form new memories. We give them a hippocampus.
+
+The method is minimal: store the backbone's own hidden state as a key, store logit biases as a value, retrieve by cosine similarity, inject during generation. No gradients. No weight changes. No training loop. One forward pass to teach. One lookup to recall. Memories persist to disk.
+
+The 200-line Python implementation reproduces the full result. The Clive Wearing Problem — intelligent systems that cannot form new memories — has a working solution.
+
+## References
+
+- Das, P. et al. (2024). Larimar: Large Language Models with Episodic Memory Control. ICML 2024. arXiv:2403.11901.
+- Fountas, Z. et al. (2024). Human-inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs. arXiv:2407.09450.
+- Graves, A. et al. (2014). Neural Turing Machines. arXiv:1410.5401.
+- Graves, A. et al. (2016). Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory. Nature 538, 471-476.
+- Jang, J. et al. (2024). CAMELoT: Towards Large Language Models with Training-Free Consolidated Associative Memory. arXiv:2402.13449.
+- Lewis, P. et al. (2020). Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks. NeurIPS 2020.
+- Meng, K. et al. (2022). Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT. NeurIPS 2022.
+- Meng, K. et al. (2023). Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformer. ICLR 2023.

python/epimem.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Episodic Memory (epimem): One-shot gradient-free learning on frozen transformers.
+
+This is the minimal Python reproduction of the paper.
+Teaches a frozen Qwen 2.5 backbone new facts via hidden-state episodic memory,
+then recalls them with logit bias injection. No gradients at any point.
+
+Usage:
+    pip install transformers torch numpy
+    python epimem.py
+
+Or with ONNX (faster inference):
+    pip install onnxruntime numpy transformers
+    python epimem.py --onnx ../models
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import numpy as np
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+# ─── Memory Bank ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+class EpisodicMemory:
+    """Hidden-state episodic memory bank.
+
+    Stores (key, value) pairs where:
+      key   = backbone hidden state (the model's internal representation of the prompt)
+      value = logit biases (which tokens to boost for the correct answer)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.episodes = []  # list of {key, logit_biases, prompt, answer}
+
+    def teach(self, key: np.ndarray, logit_biases: dict, prompt: str, answer: str):
+        """Store a new episodic memory. One-shot, no gradients."""
+        self.episodes.append({
+            "key": key / (np.linalg.norm(key) + 1e-8),  # normalize
+            "logit_biases": logit_biases,
+            "prompt": prompt,
+            "answer": answer,
+            "strength": 1.0,
+        })
+
+    def recall(self, query_key: np.ndarray, threshold: float = 0.5):
+        """Retrieve best matching episode via cosine similarity."""
+        query_norm = query_key / (np.linalg.norm(query_key) + 1e-8)
+
+        best_sim = -1.0
+        best_episode = None
+
+        for ep in self.episodes:
+            sim = float(np.dot(query_norm, ep["key"]))
+            if sim > best_sim:
+                best_sim = sim
+                best_episode = ep
+
+        if best_sim >= threshold:
+            return best_episode, best_sim
+        return None, best_sim
+
+    def save(self, path: str):
+        """Save memory bank to JSON."""
+        data = []
+        for ep in self.episodes:
+            data.append({
+                "prompt": ep["prompt"],
+                "answer": ep["answer"],
+                "key": ep["key"].tolist(),
+                "logit_biases": [[int(tid), float(b)] for tid, b in ep["logit_biases"]],
+                "strength": ep["strength"],
+            })
+        with open(path, "w") as f:
+            json.dump(data, f, indent=2)
+        print(f"Saved {len(data)} episodes to {path}")
+
+    def load(self, path: str):
+        """Load memory bank from JSON."""
+        with open(path) as f:
+            data = json.load(f)
+        self.episodes = []
+        for item in data:
+            self.episodes.append({
+                "key": np.array(item["key"], dtype=np.float32),
+                "logit_biases": [(int(tid), float(b)) for tid, b in item["logit_biases"]],
+                "prompt": item["prompt"],
+                "answer": item["answer"],
+                "strength": item.get("strength", 1.0),
+            })
+        print(f"Loaded {len(self.episodes)} episodes from {path}")
+
+
+# ─── Backbone Wrapper ────────────────────────────────────
+
+class TransformersBackbone:
+    """Qwen 2.5 backbone via HuggingFace transformers (PyTorch)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, model_name="Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B"):
+        from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+        import torch
+
+        print(f"Loading {model_name}...")
+        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
+        self.model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            model_name, torch_dtype=torch.float32, trust_remote_code=True)
+        self.model.eval()
+        self.torch = torch
+
+        self.hidden_dim = self.model.config.hidden_size
+        self.vocab_size = self.model.config.vocab_size
+        self.target_layer = self.model.config.num_hidden_layers - 1
+        print(f"  hidden_dim={self.hidden_dim}, vocab={self.vocab_size}")
+
+    def encode(self, text: str) -> list:
+        """Tokenize text to token IDs."""
+        return self.tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False)
+
+    def decode(self, token_ids: list) -> str:
+        """Decode token IDs to text."""
+        return self.tokenizer.decode(token_ids)
+
+    def get_hidden(self, token_ids: list) -> np.ndarray:
+        """Extract hidden state at the last token position."""
+        import torch
+        ids = torch.tensor([token_ids])
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            outputs = self.model(ids, output_hidden_states=True)
+            # Hidden state from target layer (pre-final)
+            hidden = outputs.hidden_states[self.target_layer][0, -1]
+        return hidden.numpy()
+
+    def get_logits(self, token_ids: list) -> np.ndarray:
+        """Get logit distribution for each position."""
+        import torch
+        ids = torch.tensor([token_ids])
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            outputs = self.model(ids)
+            logits = outputs.logits[0]  # [seq_len, vocab]
+        return logits.numpy()
+
+    def generate(self, token_ids: list, max_new: int = 20,
+                 logit_biases: list = None) -> list:
+        """Generate tokens with optional per-position logit bias injection.
+        logit_biases: list of (token_id, boost) per generation step."""
+        import torch
+        generated = list(token_ids)
+
+        for step in range(max_new):
+            ids = torch.tensor([generated])
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                logits = self.model(ids).logits[0, -1]  # [vocab]
+
+            # Inject logit bias for this step only
+            if logit_biases and step < len(logit_biases):
+                tid, bias = logit_biases[step]
+                if tid < len(logits):
+                    logits[tid] += bias
+
+            next_token = int(logits.argmax())
+            generated.append(next_token)
+
+            if next_token == self.tokenizer.eos_token_id:
+                break
+
+        return generated[len(token_ids):]
+
+
+class OnnxBackbone:
+    """Qwen 2.5 backbone via ONNX Runtime (faster, no PyTorch needed)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, model_dir: str):
+        import onnxruntime as ort
+        from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+        print(f"Loading ONNX backbone from {model_dir}...")
+        self.backbone = ort.InferenceSession(f"{model_dir}/backbone.onnx")
+        self.lm_head = ort.InferenceSession(f"{model_dir}/lm_head.onnx")
+        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            f"{model_dir}/tokenizer", trust_remote_code=True)
+
+        # Probe dimensions
+        test_ids = np.array([[1, 2, 3]], dtype=np.int64)
+        hidden, full = self.backbone.run(None, {"input_ids": test_ids})
+        self.hidden_dim = hidden.shape[-1]
+        self.vocab_size = self.lm_head.run(None, {"full_hidden": full})[0].shape[-1]
+        print(f"  hidden_dim={self.hidden_dim}, vocab={self.vocab_size}")
+
+    def encode(self, text: str) -> list:
+        return self.tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False)
+
+    def decode(self, token_ids: list) -> str:
+        return self.tokenizer.decode(token_ids)
+
+    def get_hidden(self, token_ids: list) -> np.ndarray:
+        ids = np.array([token_ids], dtype=np.int64)
+        hidden, _ = self.backbone.run(None, {"input_ids": ids})
+        return hidden[0, -1]  # last token
+
+    def get_logits(self, token_ids: list) -> np.ndarray:
+        ids = np.array([token_ids], dtype=np.int64)
+        _, full = self.backbone.run(None, {"input_ids": ids})
+        logits = self.lm_head.run(None, {"full_hidden": full})[0]
+        return logits[0]  # [seq_len, vocab]
+
+    def generate(self, token_ids: list, max_new: int = 20,
+                 logit_biases: list = None) -> list:
+        """logit_biases: list of (token_id, boost) per generation step."""
+        generated = list(token_ids)
+
+        for step in range(max_new):
+            ids = np.array([generated], dtype=np.int64)
+            _, full = self.backbone.run(None, {"input_ids": ids})
+            logits = self.lm_head.run(None, {"full_hidden": full})[0][0, -1]
+
+            if logit_biases and step < len(logit_biases):
+                tid, bias = logit_biases[step]
+                if tid < len(logits):
+                    logits[tid] += bias
+
+            next_token = int(np.argmax(logits))
+            generated.append(next_token)
+
+            if next_token == self.tokenizer.eos_token_id:
+                break
+
+        return generated[len(token_ids):]
+
+
+# ─── Teaching Protocol ───────────────────────────────────
+
+def teach_fact(backbone, memory: EpisodicMemory, prompt: str, answer: str):
+    """Teach one fact. One forward pass, no gradients.
+
+    1. Extract hidden state for prompt (= memory key)
+    2. Get logits for prompt+answer vs prompt alone (= logit biases)
+    3. Store in memory bank
+    """
+    # Key: hidden state of prompt
+    prompt_ids = backbone.encode(prompt)
+    key = backbone.get_hidden(prompt_ids)
+
+    # Baseline logits (prompt only)
+    baseline_logits = backbone.get_logits(prompt_ids)[-1]  # last position
+
+    # Target logits (prompt + answer)
+    answer_ids = backbone.encode(answer)
+    full_ids = prompt_ids + answer_ids
+    full_logits = backbone.get_logits(full_ids)
+
+    # Compute per-position logit biases: one (token_id, boost) per answer token.
+    # Each bias only applies at its corresponding generation step.
+    logit_biases = []
+    for i, tid in enumerate(answer_ids):
+        pos = len(prompt_ids) - 1 + i
+        if pos < len(full_logits):
+            logits_at_pos = full_logits[pos]
+            target_logit = float(logits_at_pos[tid])
+            max_logit = float(np.max(logits_at_pos))
+            # Boost enough to win, plus margin
+            boost = max(max_logit - target_logit + 5.0, 5.0)
+            logit_biases.append((int(tid), boost))
+
+    memory.teach(key, logit_biases, prompt, answer)
+    print(f"  Taught: \"{prompt}\" → \"{answer}\"")
+
+
+def recall_fact(backbone, memory: EpisodicMemory, query: str,
+                max_tokens: int = 10) -> tuple:
+    """Recall a fact. Hidden-state lookup + logit injection.
+
+    Returns (generated_text, similarity, episode).
+    """
+    query_ids = backbone.encode(query)
+    query_key = backbone.get_hidden(query_ids)
+
+    episode, sim = memory.recall(query_key, threshold=0.3)
+
+    if episode is None:
+        # No match — generate without memory
+        new_ids = backbone.generate(query_ids, max_new=max_tokens)
+        return backbone.decode(new_ids), sim, None
+
+    # Generate with logit bias injection
+    new_ids = backbone.generate(
+        query_ids, max_new=max_tokens,
+        logit_biases=episode["logit_biases"])
+
+    return backbone.decode(new_ids), sim, episode
+
+
+# ─── Main ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Episodic Memory: gradient-free learning on frozen transformers")
+    parser.add_argument("--onnx", type=str, default=None,
+                       help="Path to ONNX model directory (faster than PyTorch)")
+    parser.add_argument("--save", type=str, default="memory_bank.json",
+                       help="Path to save the memory bank")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Load backbone
+    if args.onnx:
+        backbone = OnnxBackbone(args.onnx)
+    else:
+        backbone = TransformersBackbone("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B")
+
+    memory = EpisodicMemory()
+
+    # ─── Teaching ─────────────────────────────────────────
+    print("\n=== Teaching 3 facts ===")
+    facts = [
+        ("The capital of Zyphraxia is", "Novaheim"),
+        ("The ruler of Zyphraxia is", "Queen Stellara"),
+        ("The currency of Zyphraxia is", "Glimmers"),
+    ]
+
+    for prompt, answer in facts:
+        teach_fact(backbone, memory, prompt, answer)
+
+    # ─── Recall ──────────────────────────────────────────
+    print("\n=== Recall test ===")
+    all_ok = True
+    for prompt, expected in facts:
+        text, sim, ep = recall_fact(backbone, memory, prompt)
+        ok = expected.lower() in text.lower()
+        status = "[OK]" if ok else "[FAIL]"
+        print(f"  {status} \"{prompt}\" → \"{text.strip()}\" (sim={sim:.3f})")
+        if not ok:
+            all_ok = False
+
+    # ─── Save ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    memory.save(args.save)
+
+    # ─── Reload and verify persistence ───────────────────
+    print("\n=== Persistence test (reload from file) ===")
+    memory2 = EpisodicMemory()
+    memory2.load(args.save)
+
+    for prompt, expected in facts:
+        text, sim, ep = recall_fact(backbone, memory2, prompt)
+        ok = expected.lower() in text.lower()
+        status = "[OK]" if ok else "[FAIL]"
+        print(f"  {status} \"{prompt}\" → \"{text.strip()}\" (sim={sim:.3f})")
+        if not ok:
+            all_ok = False
+
+    # ─── Summary ─────────────────────────────────────────
+    print(f"\n{'='*50}")
+    if all_ok:
+        print("ALL TESTS PASSED: gradient-free episodic memory works.")
+    else:
+        print("SOME TESTS FAILED: check output above.")
+    print(f"Memory bank saved to: {args.save}")
+    print(f"No gradients were computed at any point.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

results/e2e_output.log

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+=== Sleep Cycle Report ===
+NREM: 8 synapse updates
+  syn_input_attn: residual=0.0133
+  syn_attn_output: residual=0.0333
+  syn_basal_ganglia: residual=0.0605
+  syn_hippocampus: residual=0.0347
+  syn_insula: residual=0.0118
+  syn_motor_input: residual=0.0136
+  syn_cerebellum: residual=0.0161
+  syn_output_motor: residual=0.0446
+Graduated: 0 episodes → semantic
+REM: 3 replayed, 0 fears treated
+Health: 1.00/1.00
+=== Angeris Bounds Analysis ===
+Neurons: 64 total, dead: input=0 attn=0 output=0 motor=0
+  ALL SYNAPSES AT OPTIMUM — sleep consolidation won't improve further

schema/isis.fbs

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+// isis memory bank — FlatBuffers schema
+// Supports f32/f16/i8 key quantization for production deployment
+
+namespace isis.fb;
+
+// Key quantization formats
+enum KeyFormat : byte {
+    F32 = 0,
+    F16 = 1,
+    I8  = 2,
+}
+
+// Exact model identity — keys are ONLY valid for this exact config.
+table ModelId {
+    model: string;       // HuggingFace model name (e.g. "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B")
+    backend: string;     // Inference backend (e.g. "onnx", "gguf", "transformers")
+    quant: string;       // Weight quantization (e.g. "f32", "f16", "q4_k_m")
+    hidden_dim: uint32;  // Hidden state dimension (e.g. 896)
+    extraction: string;  // Hidden state extraction point (e.g. "pre_mlp_layer23")
+}
+
+// A memory key stored in the chosen precision
+table KeyData {
+    format: KeyFormat;
+    // Exactly one of these is populated based on format
+    f32_data: [float];    // dim × 4 bytes
+    f16_data: [uint16];   // dim × 2 bytes (IEEE 754 half)
+    i8_data:  [int8];     // dim × 1 byte  (scaled to [-127, 127])
+    // Scale factor for i8 dequantization: real = i8 * scale
+    i8_scale: float;
+}
+
+table SuppressEntry {
+    token_id: uint32;
+    bias: float;
+}
+
+table LogitBias {
+    token_id: uint32;
+    token: string;
+    strength: float;
+    suppress: [SuppressEntry];
+}
+
+table ContentKey {
+    key: KeyData;
+    token: string;
+    position: int32;
+}
+
+table Episode {
+    prompt: string;
+    answer: string;
+    alter: string;
+    keys: [ContentKey];
+    logit_biases: [LogitBias];
+    strength: float;
+    recall_count: uint32;
+    created_at: float64;
+    consolidated: bool;
+}
+
+table Alter {
+    name: string;
+    episodes: [Episode];
+}
+
+table Rule {
+    instruction: string;
+    priority: float;
+    trigger: string;
+    active: bool;
+}
+
+table Avoidance {
+    pattern: string;
+    reason: string;
+    key: KeyData;
+    suppress_token_ids: [uint32];
+    strength: float;
+    active: bool;
+}
+
+table MemoryBank {
+    version: uint32;
+    model_id: ModelId;   // Exact model identity
+    threshold: float;
+    key_format: KeyFormat;
+    alters: [Alter];
+    rules: [Rule];
+    avoidances: [Avoidance];
+}
+
+root_type MemoryBank;
+file_identifier "isis";
+file_extension "fb";

schema/organism.fbs

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+// Organism schema — FlatBuffers
+//
+// Separates:
+//   Weights  (shared cortical hardware, Arc-shareable)
+//   Session  (per-persona state, isolated)
+//   Memory   (episodic store with per-alter access control)
+//
+// File layout:
+//   organism.weights.fb  — one per organism (shared across personas)
+//   persona_X.session.fb — one per persona
+//   memory.fb            — shared episodic store (existing isis.fbs)
+//   barriers.fb          — dissociative access control
+
+namespace isis.organism;
+
+// ─── Shared types ────────────────────────────────────────
+
+enum Precision : byte {
+    F32 = 0,
+    F16 = 1,
+    I8  = 2,
+}
+
+/// Dense matrix stored in chosen precision.
+/// All weight matrices use this: synapses, NLM stages, projectors.
+table Matrix {
+    rows: uint32;
+    cols: uint32;
+    precision: Precision;
+    f32_data: [float];
+    f16_data: [uint16];
+    i8_data: [int8];
+    i8_scale: float;
+}
+
+/// Bias vector.
+table Bias {
+    precision: Precision;
+    f32_data: [float];
+    f16_data: [uint16];
+    i8_data: [int8];
+    i8_scale: float;
+}
+
+// ─── Region definition ───────────────────────────────────
+
+/// Per-neuron MLP weights within a region.
+table NlmStage {
+    weights: Matrix;     // [n_neurons × out_per × in_per]
+    biases: Bias;        // [n_neurons × out_per]
+    n_neurons: uint32;
+    in_per: uint32;
+    out_per: uint32;
+}
+
+/// A brain region's learned weights.
+table RegionWeights {
+    name: string;        // "input", "attention", "output", "motor", etc.
+    n_neurons: uint32;
+    memory_length: uint32;
+    inhibitory_fraction: float;
+    inhibitory_mask: [bool];
+    nlm_stage1: NlmStage;
+    nlm_stage2: NlmStage;   // null if nlm_depth < 2
+    start_trace: [float];   // initial trace state
+    start_activated: [float]; // initial activation
+}
+
+/// Inter-region synapse weights.
+table SynapseWeights {
+    from_region: string;
+    to_region: string;
+    weight: Matrix;      // [out_dim*2 × in_dim] (×2 for GLU)
+    bias: Bias;          // [out_dim*2]
+}
+
+// ─── Weights file (shared across personas) ───────────────
+
+table OrganismWeights {
+    version: uint32;
+
+    // Architecture config
+    iterations: uint32;
+    d_model: uint32;
+    d_input: uint32;
+    n_sync_out: uint32;
+    n_sync_action: uint32;
+    motor_threshold: float;
+
+    // Brain regions (variable count — not hardcoded to 8)
+    regions: [RegionWeights];
+
+    // Inter-region synapses (variable count)
+    synapses: [SynapseWeights];
+
+    // Projectors
+    global_projector: Matrix;
+    global_projector_bias: Bias;
+    output_projector: Matrix;
+    output_projector_bias: Bias;
+    logit_projector: Matrix;
+    logit_projector_bias: Bias;
+
+    // Sync pair topology (deterministic from seed, but stored for portability)
+    sync_out_left: [uint32];
+    sync_out_right: [uint32];
+    sync_out_decay: [float];
+    sync_action_left: [uint32];
+    sync_action_right: [uint32];
+    sync_action_decay: [float];
+
+    // Position predictor weights (optional)
+    position_predictor_gate: Matrix;
+    position_predictor_content: Matrix;
+    position_predictor_final: Matrix;
+
+    // Organism-level learned parameters
+    embeddings: Matrix;         // [vocab_size × embed_dim]
+    sensory_layers: [Matrix];   // sensory MLP weight matrices
+    sensory_biases: [Bias];
+    output_proj: Matrix;        // [vocab_size × n_sync_out]
+    output_proj_bias: Bias;
+
+    // Metadata
+    vocab_size: uint32;
+    embed_dim: uint32;
+    sensory_depth: uint32;
+    context_len: uint32;
+    tokens_seen: uint64;
+    sleep_cycles: uint64;
+    created_at: float64;
+}
+
+// ─── Session file (per-persona) ──────────────────────────
+
+/// Neuromodulator baseline — each persona's emotional temperament.
+table NeuromodBaseline {
+    dopamine: float;
+    serotonin: float;
+    norepinephrine: float;
+    acetylcholine: float;
+    curiosity: float;
+    anxiety: float;
+}
+
+/// Hippocampal content-addressable memory state.
+table HippocampalState {
+    capacity: uint32;
+    key_dim: uint32;
+    value_dim: uint32;
+    keys: [float];        // [capacity × key_dim]
+    values: [float];      // [capacity × value_dim]
+    strengths: [float];   // [capacity]
+    write_ptr: uint32;
+    count: uint32;
+}
+
+/// Per-region mutable state (noise, usefulness tracking).
+table RegionState {
+    region_name: string;
+    noise_scale: [float];      // [n_neurons]
+    usefulness_ema: [float];   // [n_neurons]
+}
+
+/// Hebbian plasticity state per region.
+table HebbianState {
+    region_name: string;
+    running_mean: [float];     // [n_neurons]
+    baseline_mean: [float];
+    baseline_var: [float];
+    calibrated: bool;
+}
+
+/// Replay buffer entry for prioritized consolidation.
+table ReplayEntry {
+    observation: [float];
+    surprise: float;
+    timestamp: uint64;
+}
+
+/// A persona's complete session state.
+/// This is everything that makes one persona different from another
+/// running on the same shared weights.
+table PersonaSession {
+    version: uint32;
+
+    // Identity
+    name: string;              // persona name
+    created_at: float64;
+
+    // Emotional temperament
+    neuromod_baseline: NeuromodBaseline;
+
+    // Episodic memory (per-persona hippocampal state)
+    hippo: HippocampalState;
+    hippo_retrieval: [float];
+
+    // Basal ganglia learning state
+    bg_eligibility: [float];
+    bg_da_baseline: float;
+    bg_weight_delta: [float];
+
+    // Per-region mutable state
+    region_states: [RegionState];
+
+    // Per-region Hebbian state
+    hebbian_states: [HebbianState];
+
+    // Sleep consolidation traces (transient, may be empty)
+    sleep_trace_count: uint32;
+
+    // Replay buffer
+    replay_entries: [ReplayEntry];
+    replay_capacity: uint32;
+
+    // Training state
+    hebbian_enabled: bool;
+    tokens_processed: uint64;
+    gamma_cycles_total: uint64;
+}
+
+// ─── Dissociative barriers ───────────────────────────────
+
+/// Per-persona access control over shared episodic memory.
+/// Each persona can see different episodes with different strength.
+table EpisodeAccess {
+    episode_index: uint32;     // index into MemoryBank.alters[].episodes[]
+    access_level: float;       // 0.0 = walled off, 1.0 = full access
+}
+
+table PersonaBarrier {
+    persona_name: string;
+    episode_access: [EpisodeAccess];
+}
+
+table DissociativeBarriers {
+    version: uint32;
+    barriers: [PersonaBarrier];
+    // Global integration level: 0.0 = fully dissociated, 1.0 = fully integrated
+    integration_level: float;
+}
+
+// ─── Root types ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+root_type OrganismWeights;
+file_identifier "orgw";
+file_extension "weights.fb";
+
+// For session files, use PersonaSession as root:
+// root_type PersonaSession;
+// file_identifier "orgs";
+// file_extension "session.fb";
+
+// For barrier files, use DissociativeBarriers as root:
+// root_type DissociativeBarriers;
+// file_identifier "orgb";
+// file_extension "barriers.fb";