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121 articles · Published by MARIA OS
A mathematical framework for calibrating governance in self-organizing enterprises
We derive a stability condition linking the spectral radius of the influence-propagation matrix to governance constraint density. The law λ_max(A) < 1 - D separates stable role specialization from oscillatory or chaotic regimes.
Beyond generative AI: a practical computational substrate for self-governing enterprises
An agentic company is not built on generative AI alone. We present 10 core algorithms across language, tabular prediction, state-transition control, graph structure, and anomaly detection, organized into a 7-layer architecture for enterprise governance workloads.
How self-attention enables multi-agent context fusion, decision-log comprehension, and hierarchical organizational reasoning
Transformer architectures are central to enterprise language understanding, but production decision systems require additional design constraints. This paper formalizes transformers as the Cognition Layer (Layer 1) of the agentic company stack, introduces cross-agent attention for organizational context fusion, adapts positional encoding to hierarchical coordinates, and outlines training objectives for decision logs, contracts, meeting notes, and specification documents. In evaluated MARIA OS workloads, coordinate-aware attention reduced cross-agent context fusion error by 34% versus standard multi-head attention, and hierarchical positional encoding improved organizational structure extraction F1 by 28%.
Why enterprise data is often tabular and how gradient boosting ensembles support approval prediction, risk scoring, and outcome estimation
While deep learning dominates many unstructured tasks, enterprise decision data is frequently tabular: structured features describing decisions, agents, contexts, and outcomes. This paper formalizes gradient boosting (XGBoost/LightGBM) as the Decision Layer (Layer 2) of the agentic company stack, details feature-engineering patterns for enterprise decision tables, and introduces SHAP-based explainability workflows for governance audits. Across evaluated datasets, the approach achieved 91.3% approval-prediction accuracy, 0.94 AUC on risk scoring, and full SHAP traceability integrated with MARIA OS responsibility gates.
How bagging-based tree ensembles reveal decision-branch structure, critical governance variables, and auditable policy trees
While gradient boosting often targets predictive accuracy, random forests provide a complementary strength: structural interpretability. This paper positions random forests as an interpretability engine within the Decision Layer (Layer 2), showing how ensemble structure surfaces governance logic, highlights key variables through permutation/impurity importance, and yields auditable policy trees. In evaluated workloads, random-forest feature importance reached 0.93 rank correlation with domain-expert rankings, extracted trees matched 89% of documented governance policies, and out-of-bag error supported validation in data-constrained settings.
How MDPs, Bellman equations, and policy optimization support workflow control, responsibility decomposition, and gate-constrained automation
The agentic company can be modeled as a state-transition system. Business workflows move through discrete states — proposed, validated, approved, executed, completed — with transitions governed by policies balancing efficiency, risk, and human authority. This paper models that process as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), with state dimensions spanning financial, operational, human, risk, and governance factors. We derive Bellman equations for policy optimization, analyze gate-constrained MDP behavior when specific transitions require human approval, and map the MARIA OS decision pipeline to a finite-horizon MDP with responsibility constraints. In tested workflow graphs, policy iteration converged within 12 iterations and yielded 23% throughput improvement over heuristic routing while keeping governance compliance at 100%.
How Proximal Policy Optimization enables medium-risk task automation while respecting human approval gates
Gated autonomy requires reinforcement learning that respects responsibility boundaries. This paper positions actor-critic methods — specifically PPO — as a core algorithm in the Control Layer, showing how the actor learns policies, the critic estimates state value, and responsibility gates constrain the action space dynamically. We derive a gate-constrained policy-gradient formulation, analyze PPO clipping behavior under trust-region constraints, and model human-in-the-loop approval as part of environment dynamics.
How exploration-exploitation algorithms form the fifth layer of the agentic company architecture
Enterprises continually face the exploration-exploitation dilemma: whether to exploit known strategies or test potentially better alternatives. This paper formalizes multi-armed bandits as the Exploration Layer (Layer 5), covering Thompson sampling with Beta priors, UCB confidence bounds, contextual bandits for personalized decisions, and Bayesian optimization for business hyperparameter tuning. We provide enterprise-oriented regret analysis and describe integration with the MARIA OS strategy engine.
How GNNs form the Structure Layer that models agent dependencies, information flow, and hierarchical topology in self-governing enterprises
Agentic companies can be modeled as graph structures, where agents connect through dependencies, information channels, and approval chains. This paper formalizes Graph Neural Networks as the Structure Layer (Layer 3), covering message-passing networks for organizational flow, spectral convolutions for hierarchy discovery, graph attention for dynamic topology, and link prediction for emerging dependencies. We also analyze influence-propagation matrices and spectral-radius indicators for governance stability, and describe integration with the MARIA OS Universe visualization.
How k-means, DBSCAN, and hierarchical clustering form the computational mechanism of organizational role formation
Role specialization in agentic companies can be analyzed as a clustering phenomenon. We show how k-means supports initial role assignment, DBSCAN discovers natural clusters without fixed role counts, and hierarchical clustering models nested organizational structure. We derive a role-specialization equation and describe how MARIA OS applies dynamic re-clustering for organizational adaptation.
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