Limitations and open questions

Records the preprint’s scalability, approximation, calibration, hyperparameter, initial-resource, and limited-action concerns along with broader questions about robustness and transfer.

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Records the preprint’s scalability, approximation, calibration, hyperparameter, initial-resource, and limited-action concerns along with broader questions about robustness and transfer.

Research documentation: this page interprets a cited research source and defines evidence requirements. It does not claim a released Teleodynamic AI implementation.

Source-paper limitations

  • Diagonal Fisher approximation.
  • Scalability to high-dimensional and multiclass data.
  • Hyperparameter sensitivity.
  • Dependence on initial energy.
  • Tropical-inference calibration.
  • Limited structural action vocabulary.

Additional engineering questions

  • How robust is phase detection to noise and window choice?
  • Can resource rewards be gamed?
  • How should persistent local adaptation be rolled back?
  • How is catastrophic structure loss recovered?
  • Does the approach transfer beyond small tabular rule-learning tasks?
  • Can independent implementations reproduce the reported results?

Scope

This starter page defines the questions, boundaries, evidence, and failure modes that should be recorded before a capability is presented as supported.

Engineering considerations

  • Identify the source, version, target environment, and owner.
  • Separate observed values from estimates and externally reported values.
  • Record trade-offs, unsupported cases, and fallback behavior.
  • Link performance statements to a compatible benchmark methodology.

Verification questions

  • What exact artifact, revision, backend, and environment were reviewed?
  • Which assumptions could change the result?
  • Which data should be retained so another engineer can reproduce the conclusion?