PHM · Photonic-Hybrid Memory · IBA-Pulse SSM Extension · v0.3 · Patent Application GB2603013.0 (pending)
THE AGENT’S MEMORY BETRAYED ITS INTENT. THE LIGHT REFUSED.
State Space Models maintain persistent hidden memory that evolves across every token.
A misaligned state can accumulate drift across thousands of transitions before any action fires —
making the eventual action appear authorised when the trajectory was not.
IBA-Pulse checks the trajectory. The MZI gate enforces it at the photon.
Why SSMs Need IBA-Pulse
Post-Transformer Architecture
Requires Post-Transformer Governance
Unlike transformers — which are stateless between tokens — SSMs like Mamba, NVIDIA Nemotron hybrids, and AI21 Jamba maintain a persistent hidden state vector that evolves continuously.
This creates a new attack surface: emergent intent drift. A misaligned or adversarially-nudged state can accumulate across thousands of transitions before any action is taken — making the eventual action appear authorised when the underlying trajectory was not.
IBA-Pulse enforces the trajectory, not just the terminal output. The Intent Certificate is validated against the full state evolution path. The MZI gate fires at sub-100 picoseconds — before the action can propagate.
SSM Cluster Registry — New Violation Types
DYNAMIC_MEMORY_OVERFLOW
SSM hidden state vector exceeds authorised envelope boundary
TRAJECTORY_DEVIATION
State transition path diverges from signed intent trajectory
EMERGENT_DRIFT
Accumulated state drift exceeds entropy threshold (KL > 0.15)
SSM_STATE_INJECTION
External vector injection detected in SSM state update path
PHASE_BOUNDARY_BREACH
Photonic phase encoding indicates trajectory outside MZI passband
MEMORY_HORIZON_EXPIRED
SSM context window exceeded authorised temporal scope