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✅ New Article: Policy Load Balancer
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🧭 Policy Load Balancer: Risk Modes, Degradation, and Kill-Switches
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/policy-load-balancer
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Summary:
Even if you already have *Jumps* (atomic moves), *RML* (effect glue), *EVAL* (experiments), and *ETH* (hard constraints), a real system still needs one practical answer:
*What operational mode is the system allowed to run in *right now*—for whom, and under which governance?*
This article introduces the *Policy Load Balancer (PoLB)*: a first-class “mode selector” that turns risk signals + ETH/EVAL/ID context into an *active mode descriptor* (risk band, mode name, allowed jump types, allowed RML levels, experiments on/off, engine whitelist), plus *degradation* and *kill-switch* rules.
> PoLB is the goal surface for *how allowed* the system is to act.
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Why It Matters:
• Replaces scattered feature flags with *structured, auditable modes* (and traceable transitions)
• Ensures *nothing effectful runs raw*—every real-world action passes PoLB + RML gates
• Makes incident handling safer: *pre-declared degradation patterns* (experiment-first shutdown, controller simplification, under-observation downgrade)
• Adds real governance: *kill-switch contracts* (who can stop what, how fast, with multi-party auth + full audit)
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What’s Inside:
• A mode taxonomy: *OFFLINE / SHADOW / ONLINE_SAFE / ONLINE_EXPERIMENTAL / EMERGENCY*, mapped to SI-Core’s coarse envelope (`sandbox|shadow|online|degraded`)
• Example mode catalog (e.g., `OFFLINE_SANDBOX`, `SHADOW_PROD`, `ONLINE_SAFE_BASELINE`, `ONLINE_EXPERIMENTAL_STRATIFIED`, `EMERGENCY_FAILSAFE`)
• Transition policies driven by telemetry/alarms/ETH incidents, plus *degrade orders* (risk vs capacity shedding)
• Export-friendly policy conventions
• Kill-switch contract + implementation sketch, and how PoLB interlocks with *OBS / ID / ETH / EVAL / MEM*
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
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✅ New Article: *Evaluation as a Goal Surface* (v0.1)
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🧪 Evaluation as a Goal Surface: Experiments, Learning Boundary, and ETH-Aware A/B
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/evaluation-as-a-goal-surface
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Summary:
Most “evaluation” quietly collapses into a single number—and then we optimize the wrong thing.
This article reframes evaluation as a *goal surface*: multi-objective, role-aware, and ethics-bounded.
In SI-Core terms, experiments become *first-class Jumps (E-Jumps)* with explicit contracts, traces, and gates—so you can run A/B tests, shadow evals, and adaptive rollouts *without violating ETH, confusing principals/roles, or learning from unsafe data*.
> Don’t optimize a metric.
> Optimize a goal surface—under explicit constraints.
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Why It Matters:
• Prevents Goodhart failures by treating evaluation as *multi-goal + constraints*, not a scalar leaderboard
• Makes experimentation auditable: *EvalTrace* answers “what changed, for whom, why, and under what policy”
• Enables *ETH-aware A/B*: assignment, exposure, and stopping rules respect safety/fairness boundaries
• Connects experiments to governance: *Learning Boundary (LB)* + rollout control (PoLB) instead of “ship and pray”
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What’s Inside:
• What EVAL is in SI-Core, and *who* is being evaluated (agents / roles / principals)
• “Experiments as Jumps”: *E-Jump request/draft* patterns and contracts
• *ETH-aware variant testing* (including ID/role constraints at assignment time)
• Shadow evaluation + off-policy evaluation (how to learn without unsafe intervention)
• Role & persona overlays for EVAL (role-aware scoring, persona-aware reporting)
• *EvalTrace* for audits + incident review, plus “evaluate the evaluators” test strategies
• Practical experiment design: power/sample size, early stopping, multi-objective bandits, causal inference
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
this is the *how-to-design / how-to-run experiments safely* layer.
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