04. RESEARCH / WRITING

Research & Thinking

Articles, analyses, and explorations at the frontier of cognitive AI systems, infrastructure design, and machine intelligence architecture.

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE
PUBLISHED

The Cognitive Loop: Designing AI Systems That Think in Cycles

Exploration of perception-planning-action-reflection loops as a foundation for robust autonomous AI systems. How borrowing from cognitive science yields more resilient architectures than pure instruction-following.

ArchitectureCognitive AIAgent Design
12 min2024-07
LLM INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLISHED

Semantic-Aware LLM Routing: 43% Cost Reduction Without Sacrificing Quality

How embedding-based task classification can intelligently route requests to the cheapest capable model, with fallback chains and real-time health monitoring across nine model backends.

LLM RoutingCost OptimizationInfrastructure
8 min2024-06
MEMORY SYSTEMS
PUBLISHED

Multi-Layer Vector Memory: From Episodic to Semantic Consolidation

Deep dive into the three-tier memory architecture powering NEXUS: how events become facts become skills through nightly consolidation pipelines, analogous to biological memory formation.

Vector DBMemoryEmbeddingsPinecone
14 min2024-05
AI SAFETY
PUBLISHED

Risk Governance in Autonomous AI: Beyond Simple Content Filtering

Why filtering isn't enough for production AI systems. A framework for action-level risk scoring, reversibility analysis, and human escalation triggers that scales with agent capability.

AI SafetyGovernanceConstitutional AI
10 min2024-04
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
DRAFT

Knowledge Graphs as the Backbone of AI Long-Term Memory

Investigating hybrid approaches that combine dense vector retrieval with structured knowledge graph traversal — trading some recall speed for dramatically improved factual precision.

Knowledge GraphsMemoryNeo4j
~15 min2024-Q3
PLANNING SYSTEMS
DRAFT

HTN Planning + LLMs: Structured Decomposition for Complex Tasks

Combining classical Hierarchical Task Network planning with LLM-guided method selection — getting the best of symbolic planning's guarantees and neural flexibility.

HTNPlanningLLM Integration
~11 min2024-Q3