Safety & GovernanceFebruary 14, 202636 min read

Confidence-Evidence Coupling for Agentic Governance: A Calibration Law for Safer Decisions

Couple confidence outputs to evidence sufficiency and contradiction pressure to reduce silent high-certainty failures

The coupling law ties confidence to evidence quality and provenance, improving escalation precision under uncertainty.

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MathematicsFebruary 14, 202635 min read

Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Gated Autonomy: PPO-Based Policy Optimization Under Responsibility Constraints

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.

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Industry ApplicationsFebruary 12, 202648 min read

AML Detection Gate Optimization: Constrained Loss Minimization for Anti-Money Laundering

Formalizing gate strength as a continuous control variable to minimize the combined cost of false positives, missed detections, and investigation delay in AML compliance pipelines

AML programs face a costly tradeoff between false positives, missed detections, and investigation delay. This paper formalizes AML detection as constrained loss minimization over gate strength `g` and treats the benchmark numbers as synthetic scenario outputs, not as universal regulatory thresholds or turnkey compliance claims. The practical value of the article is in the control framework, escalation logic, and risk-based calibration structure.

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Industry ApplicationsFebruary 12, 202636 min read

Safety-First Minimax Production: Optimizing Throughput Under Hard Safety Constraints

Minimizing safety risk subject to throughput maximization constraints using minimax optimization and responsibility-gated production decisions

Manufacturing throughput and worker safety are often treated as competing objectives. This paper introduces a minimax formulation that prioritizes worst-case safety risk minimization subject to throughput-floor guarantees. The Lagrangian dual form yields gate-threshold rules for production decisions, and MARIA OS responsibility gates enforce hard safety overrides at each node. In an automotive assembly-line simulation, the framework reported 99.7% safety compliance with a 3.2% throughput reduction versus unconstrained production.

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