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Main Author: Takahashi, K
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Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2026
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18115544
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contents <p>Non-Markovianity certification for agents under no-meta obligations: audit-ready, fail-closed, ledger-only evidence.<br>Anytime-valid e-process / e-value tests safe under optional stopping, built from committed telemetry contracts.<br>Operational Markov order is defined relative to logged interfaces (pre/post fields), not hidden internal state.</p> <p>This work specifies a protocol-level standard for certifying (or rejecting) non-Markovianity claims in open, partially observed, and adversarially operated systems. The verifier is constrained to commit-before-observe telemetry and declared, replayable artifacts (no privileged sensors, no hidden reward channels, no meta-observer). Evidence is produced via anytime-valid e-processes (test martingales / e-values), enabling continuous monitoring without invalidating error control under optional stopping.</p> <p>Four certificate families are defined: (A) prequential declared-model compliance via sequential likelihood ratios; (AU) constructive memory witnesses via forecast competition between an order-L baseline and a declared memory-augmented predictor under explicit memory/compute budgets; (B) matched-context dual-run witnesses with verifiable sign/label randomization; and (BU) randomize-after-start segments that separate start acquisition from randomized evaluation to avoid selection bias. Auditability is enforced by deterministic canonical serialization, hash-chained ledgers, explicit matching requirements including probe-time pre-fields, tombstone accounting for missingness/censoring, and optional transparency-log publication for third-party verification.</p>
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spellingShingle Non-Markovianity Certification under No-Meta Obligations for Agents
Takahashi, K
Artificial intelligence
non-Markovianity
Markov order
Markov order estimation
memory witness
memory effects
e-process
e-value
test martingale
anytime-valid inference
optional stopping
sequential testing
prequential inference
likelihood ratio
auditability
protocol specification
telemetry contract
commit-before-observe
canonical JSON
hash chaining
Merkle tree
verifiable randomness
missing data
open systems
<p>Non-Markovianity certification for agents under no-meta obligations: audit-ready, fail-closed, ledger-only evidence.<br>Anytime-valid e-process / e-value tests safe under optional stopping, built from committed telemetry contracts.<br>Operational Markov order is defined relative to logged interfaces (pre/post fields), not hidden internal state.</p> <p>This work specifies a protocol-level standard for certifying (or rejecting) non-Markovianity claims in open, partially observed, and adversarially operated systems. The verifier is constrained to commit-before-observe telemetry and declared, replayable artifacts (no privileged sensors, no hidden reward channels, no meta-observer). Evidence is produced via anytime-valid e-processes (test martingales / e-values), enabling continuous monitoring without invalidating error control under optional stopping.</p> <p>Four certificate families are defined: (A) prequential declared-model compliance via sequential likelihood ratios; (AU) constructive memory witnesses via forecast competition between an order-L baseline and a declared memory-augmented predictor under explicit memory/compute budgets; (B) matched-context dual-run witnesses with verifiable sign/label randomization; and (BU) randomize-after-start segments that separate start acquisition from randomized evaluation to avoid selection bias. Auditability is enforced by deterministic canonical serialization, hash-chained ledgers, explicit matching requirements including probe-time pre-fields, tombstone accounting for missingness/censoring, and optional transparency-log publication for third-party verification.</p>
title Non-Markovianity Certification under No-Meta Obligations for Agents
topic Artificial intelligence
non-Markovianity
Markov order
Markov order estimation
memory witness
memory effects
e-process
e-value
test martingale
anytime-valid inference
optional stopping
sequential testing
prequential inference
likelihood ratio
auditability
protocol specification
telemetry contract
commit-before-observe
canonical JSON
hash chaining
Merkle tree
verifiable randomness
missing data
open systems
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18115544