{"id":2356,"title":"Sutra: Tensor-Op RNNs as a Compilation Target for Vector Symbolic Architectures","abstract":"**Sutra** is a typed, purely functional programming language whose compiled forward pass is a PyTorch neural network. The compiler beta-reduces the whole program (primitives, control flow, string I/O) to a fused tensor-op graph: rotation binding, unbind, bundle, polynomial Kleene three-valued logic, and tail-recursive loops all lower to tensor operations on a frozen embedding substrate, with the only remaining host-side control flow a thin tick-loop that breaks when a halt scalar saturates. The Kleene connectives are Lagrange-interpolated polynomials exact on the {−1, 0, +1} truth grid; rotation binding doubles as the language's hash-map primitive (Haar-orthogonal role rotations seeded by content hash). The substrate is the architecture target: swap the embedding model and the same source recompiles against a different geometry.\n\nThe validation is a single fact testable two ways. (1) The same program runs on four frozen embedding substrates spanning two modalities (three text encoders: nomic-embed-text, all-minilm, mxbai-embed-large, and one protein language model: ESM-2) and decodes bundles at 100% accuracy through width k=8 on every one, where the textbook Hadamard product has already collapsed (2.5% on mxbai-embed-large, 7.5% on all-minilm); single-cycle bind/unbind round-trips at ≈ 1.5×10⁻¹⁵. A Sutra program's inputs and outputs are embeddings in the substrate's vector space; a compile-time codebook handles string literals at the source level and nearest-string lookup at the output boundary. (2) PyTorch autograd flows through the compiled graph end-to-end: a symbolic if-then program of fuzzy rules over 20 classes / 992 words, with a rule tree nineteen ANDs deep, trains from random init (4%; chance = 5%) to 95% within 50 epochs and holds through 300 without any modification to the symbolic source. Gradient descent moves the embeddings the rules evaluate against, leaving the rule graph itself untouched.\n\nThis collapses the boundary between writing a logic program and training a neural network: one artifact, two interpretations.\n\n---","content":"# Sutra: Tensor-Op RNNs as a Compilation Target for Vector Symbolic Architectures\n\n\n\n---\n\n## Abstract\n\n**Sutra** is a typed, purely functional programming language whose compiled forward pass is a PyTorch neural network. The compiler beta-reduces the whole program (primitives, control flow, string I/O) to a fused tensor-op graph: rotation binding, unbind, bundle, polynomial Kleene three-valued logic, and tail-recursive loops all lower to tensor operations on a frozen embedding substrate, with the only remaining host-side control flow a thin tick-loop that breaks when a halt scalar saturates. The Kleene connectives are Lagrange-interpolated polynomials exact on the {−1, 0, +1} truth grid; rotation binding doubles as the language's hash-map primitive (Haar-orthogonal role rotations seeded by content hash). The substrate is the architecture target: swap the embedding model and the same source recompiles against a different geometry.\n\nThe validation is a single fact testable two ways. (1) The same program runs on four frozen embedding substrates spanning two modalities (three text encoders: nomic-embed-text, all-minilm, mxbai-embed-large, and one protein language model: ESM-2) and decodes bundles at 100% accuracy through width k=8 on every one, where the textbook Hadamard product has already collapsed (2.5% on mxbai-embed-large, 7.5% on all-minilm); single-cycle bind/unbind round-trips at ≈ 1.5×10⁻¹⁵. A Sutra program's inputs and outputs are embeddings in the substrate's vector space; a compile-time codebook handles string literals at the source level and nearest-string lookup at the output boundary. (2) PyTorch autograd flows through the compiled graph end-to-end: a symbolic if-then program of fuzzy rules over 20 classes / 992 words, with a rule tree nineteen ANDs deep, trains from random init (4%; chance = 5%) to 95% within 50 epochs and holds through 300 without any modification to the symbolic source. Gradient descent moves the embeddings the rules evaluate against, leaving the rule graph itself untouched.\n\nThis collapses the boundary between writing a logic program and training a neural network: one artifact, two interpretations.\n\n---\n\n## 1. Introduction\n\nA frozen embedding model maps strings — or amino-acid sequences,\nor any other input the model was trained on — into a\ndeterministic continuous vector space. Given such a substrate,\ntwo technical questions follow:\n\n1. **Which operations on these embeddings are reliable enough to\n   be used as primitives** of a compositional algebra over the\n   substrate's vector space?\n2. **What is the correct binding operation?** Hyperdimensional\n   computing's textbook bind operators — Hadamard product,\n   circular convolution — were derived assuming hypervectors\n   drawn from a controlled random distribution. Frozen LLM\n   embeddings are not such a distribution. §3.2 measures four\n   substrates and reports that rotation binding decodes at 100%\n   accuracy through bundle widths where Hadamard has already\n   collapsed.\n\nThis paper answers both questions in the form of a working\nprogramming language, **Sutra**, whose primitives are these\nconsolidated operations and whose compiled forward pass is a\nPyTorch neural network. The naming: **Sutra** is the Sanskrit\n*sūtra* — thread, rule, aphorism — the term for Pāṇini's\nfoundational Sanskrit grammar.\n\n### 1.1 Contributions\n\nThe four core technical contributions of this paper are:\n\n1. **Polynomial fuzzy logic via Lagrange interpolation of\n   Kleene's three-valued truth tables.** The truth axis encodes\n   $T = +1$, $U = 0$, $F = -1$. On the discrete\n   $\\{-1, 0, +1\\}$ grid, the Kleene connectives are\n   $\\mathrm{AND} = \\min$, $\\mathrm{OR} = \\max$, $\\mathrm{NOT} = -\\,\\cdot\\,$.\n   The min/max forms (the standard Gödel t-norm/t-conorm choice;\n   Hájek 1998) are non-differentiable at the diagonal $a = b$,\n   which breaks gradient flow when connectives compose with the\n   tensor-op graph (van Krieken, Acar & van Harmelen 2022 survey\n   the issue across t-norm-derived neural-symbolic operators).\n   Sutra resolves this by Lagrange-interpolating each connective\n   as a polynomial that is exact on the $3\\times 3$ Kleene grid\n   and $C^{\\infty}$ elsewhere:\n\n   \\begin{align*}\n   \\mathrm{AND}(a, b) &= \\tfrac{1}{2}(a + b + ab - a^2 - b^2 + a^2 b^2) \\\\\n   \\mathrm{OR}(a, b)  &= \\tfrac{1}{2}(a + b - ab + a^2 + b^2 - a^2 b^2) \\\\\n   \\mathrm{NOT}(a)    &= -a \\\\\n   \\mathrm{XOR}(a, b) &= -ab, \\qquad \\mathrm{XNOR}(a, b) = ab\n   \\end{align*}\n\n   {AND, OR, NOT} is functionally complete for the Kleene\n   fragment; XOR/XNOR collapse to a single multiplicative term\n   because their interpolant is zero whenever either input is U\n   and bilinear in the {−1, +1} corners. Every Kleene-valid\n   connective is therefore a polynomial tensor-op-graph fragment\n   — gradient-compatible, branchless, and exact on the\n   discrete-logic regime. A symbolic if-then rule built from\n   these gates is one fused subgraph that PyTorch autograd\n   backprops through end-to-end (§3.6).\n\n2. **Beta reduction to tensor normal form.** The compiler\n   inlines stdlib operator definitions, beta-reduces through\n   bound names, then runs an algebraic-simplification pass over\n   the residual. What's left is a fused tensor-op graph (matmul\n   / element-wise / nonlinear) with no named bindings or\n   function calls. Three concrete moves go beyond standard\n   inlining + constant folding: conditionals lower to soft-mux\n   polynomials ($\\tfrac{1+\\mathrm{cond}}{2}\\,a + \\tfrac{1-\\mathrm{cond}}{2}\\,b$) so the compiled\n   artifact has no `if` opcodes; Haar-orthogonal binding\n   rotations `R_role` are materialized at compile time so\n   runtime `bind` is one matmul against a constant matrix;\n   canonical synthetic axes are assigned compile-time so every\n   primitive-type read/write is a known index, not a hashtable\n   lookup. §4.3 traces this lowering stage-by-stage on a\n   concrete program; the compilation pipeline as a whole is\n   Figure~\\ref{fig:compile-pipeline} (§4).\n\n3. **Tail recursion as the loop primitive.** Loops are\n   tail-recursive function declarations (`do_while`,\n   `while_loop`, `iterative_loop`, `foreach_loop`) whose body's\n   `return NAME(args)` becomes the recurrent step. Each loop\n   compiles to a soft-halt RNN cell with substrate-pure halt\n   detection (heaviside → cumulative monotone halt → soft-mux\n   state freeze). The body of every loop tick is one\n   straight-line tensor pipeline with no in-graph branches; a\n   thin Python `while True: … break` driver wraps the body and\n   terminates when the halt scalar saturates (§3.4). The state\n   vector is fixed-width across iterations — **O(1) state, O(N)\n   compute, O(N) gradient tape during training**, where N is\n   iterations actually executed.\n\n4. **Synthetic-dimension rotation binding as an angular hash map.**\n   The compiler reserves a synthetic block of canonical\n   dimensions and uses Haar-orthogonal rotations seeded from the\n   role's content hash to bind keys to slots. To the authors'\n   knowledge this is the first use of a high-dimensional\n   rotation pattern as the substrate for a functional hash-map\n   primitive.\n\nThese four primitives integrate into a single working compiler\nthat lowers `.su` source to a self-contained PyTorch module on\nCPU or CUDA. Program inputs and outputs are embeddings in the\nsubstrate's vector space; a compile-time codebook (implemented\nwith an embedded vector database, §3.5) handles the convenience\nof source-level string literals and nearest-string output.\n\n### 1.2 The substrate is the architecture target\n\nA Sutra program is compiled for an *embedding-space architecture*,\nthe way a C program is compiled for x86 and a CUDA kernel for an\nNVIDIA SM. The embedding model fixes dimensionality, the geometry\nof the semantic block, and the meaning of every basis-vector\nlookup; swap the model and the same source recompiles to a\ndifferent `.sdb` codebook against a different geometry. The\nsubstrate need not be an LLM — it can be any network producing a\ndense vector representation, including the hidden state of a\ntrained model. §3.2's ESM-2 protein-LM row demonstrates this\nsubstrate-agnostically.\n\n---\n\n## 2. Related Work\n\n### 2.1 Vector Symbolic Architectures\n\nVSA is a family of algebraic frameworks for computing with high-\ndimensional vectors (Kanerva 2009; Plate 1995; Gayler 2003). The\nstandard VSA development assumes hypervectors drawn from a\ncontrolled random distribution designed for the algebra; bind is\ntypically Hadamard product or circular convolution. Frozen LLM\nembedding spaces are not designed for VSA, and the textbook bind\noperations do not always transfer cleanly to them. Rotation\nbinding (`R_role @ filler` for a role-seeded Haar-random\northogonal `R_role`) is the choice that worked across the\nsubstrates we tested, and is what Sutra uses today; §3.2\nreports the per-substrate measurements supporting that choice.\n\nThe closest software peer in the VSA space is **TorchHD**\n(Heddes et al. 2023), a PyTorch library that exposes VSA\nprimitives (bind, bundle, similarity) as tensor operations.\nSutra and TorchHD differ on what the user writes and what the\ncompiler does:\n\n- **TorchHD is a *library*.** The user writes Python code that\n  calls TorchHD primitives; control flow is host-side Python;\n  there is no source-language layer above the primitives, no\n  compile step, and no algebraic reduction across primitive\n  calls. Each primitive call is a tensor op, but the program\n  itself is a Python function with whatever control flow the\n  user wrote.\n- **Sutra is a *language with a compiler*.** The user writes\n  `.su` source which the compiler beta-reduces to tensor normal\n  form (§1.1-2): a single straight-line tensor-op graph with no\n  Python control flow. Loops are tail-recursive function\n  declarations that lower to soft-halt RNN cells; conditionals\n  are differentiable fuzzy interpolations rather than Python\n  `if`. Hash-map structure is implemented via synthetic-dimension\n  rotation, not via a host-side dictionary.\n\nA second axis where Sutra differs from existing HDC software is\n**string I/O**. TorchHD and similar libraries expose the algebra\nover user-supplied hypervectors; the user maintains a\n`dict[str, hypervector]` and an explicit codebook tensor by hand.\nSutra's compile-time codebook (§3.5) closes that loop: every\nembedded string in `.su` source is embedded once at compile time\nvia the configured frozen LLM, stored in the project's `.sdb`\ncodebook, and decoded at the program output via `nearest_string`.\nThe frozen-LLM embedding is load-bearing — random hypervectors\nyield a working VSA algebra with no I/O story.\n\nThe structural differences — Sutra contains no Python, the\nstring-to-vector map and codebook are constructed by the compiler\nrather than by the user, and the whole program reduces to a single\nfused tensor-op graph — are differences in artifact shape, not\nlibrary speed.\n\n### 2.2 Comparison to other neuro-symbolic languages\n\nThe closest neuro-symbolic-language peers — **Scallop** (Li et\nal. 2023, Datalog with provenance-semiring differentiability),\n**DeepProbLog** (Manhaeve et al. 2018, ProbLog with neural\npredicates), **Logic Tensor Networks** (Badreddine et al. 2022,\nfirst-order logic compiled to t-norm losses), and **NeurASP**\n(Yang et al. 2020, Answer Set Programming with neural predicates)\n— all share a two-stage perception-then-reasoning shape: a\nneural model extracts discrete symbols from raw input, and a\nsymbolic program reasons over those symbols. Sutra's shape is\ndifferent at this architectural level: the substrate is a\ncontinuous embedding space throughout, primitives operate on\nvectors end-to-end, and the whole program — including what would\nbe the logic program in Scallop — compiles to a single fused\ntensor-op graph through beta reduction. There is no discrete\nsymbolic stratum to extract into or reason over; differentiability\nis inherited from the tensor-op graph itself, not from a\nprovenance annotation on a relational query. The two are good at\ndifferent problem structures: Scallop and its peers when the\nproblem is naturally relational and perception cleanly factors\nout; Sutra when computation is best expressed as algebra on\nvectors over a substrate the program reads strings into and\ndecodes strings out of.\n\nThe closest HDC peer with compiler infrastructure is **HDCC**\n(Vergés et al. 2023), a description-file DSL targeting\nself-contained C for embedded classification — random/level\nhypervectors only, no general control flow, scoped to\nclassification. **TorchHD** and OpenHD / HDTorch are libraries\nwithout a language-level loop primitive. To the authors'\nknowledge, no published HDC system combines (a) one fused\ntensor-op graph as compile target, (b) HDC primitives as the\noperations, (c) a frozen externally-trained vector embedding\nspace as the substrate, and (d) tail-recursive loops compiled to\nsoft-halt RNN cells with constant state-vector width in\nrecursion depth. The combination is what distinguishes Sutra,\nnot any one of those properties in isolation.\n\n### 2.3 Differentiable Programming, AOT Compilation, and Knowledge\nCompilation\n\nThe closest design ancestors are partial-evaluation systems that\nspecialize programs at compile time (the Futamura projections),\ndifferentiable programming systems that treat programs as\ndifferentiable functions (JAX), AOT compilation of neural networks\n(TVM, XLA), and knowledge compilation in symbolic AI (Darwiche &\nMarquis 2002). Sutra differs from each: TVM/XLA start from a\nnetwork, not toward one; JAX treats programs as differentiable but\ndoes not bake source literals into weights; partial evaluation\nspecializes for compile-time-known values but does not target a\nneural-network-shaped artifact; knowledge compilation targets\nBoolean circuits, not continuous embedding spaces. Sutra's\ncombination — fold source literals into the weight structure,\ncompile control flow to RNN cells, run the whole program as one\ntensor-op graph over a *continuous* substrate — is the novel\nposition.\n\n---\n\n## 3. Consolidation into Canonical Primitives\n\nThe central design move: hold the operation interface fixed and\npick a binding implementation that works on dense\nexternally-trained substrates. Standard VSA's Hadamard product\nfails here — elementwise multiplication of correlated real-valued\nvectors produces destructive crosstalk on bundled retrieval (§3.2\nmeasures this directly). Rotation binding works: each role gets a\nHaar-random orthogonal `R_role` seeded by `hash(role)`, and\n`bind(role, filler) = R_role @ filler` is invertible (unbind is\nthe transpose) and well-conditioned. The compiler caches\n`R_role` per-role at module init so runtime bind is a single\nmatmul against a precomputed matrix.\n\n### 3.1 Notation\n\nWe work in $\\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d$ the substrate's embedding\ndimension (768 for nomic-embed-text). Every value has the layout\n$[\\,\\text{semantic}\\mid\\text{synthetic}\\,]$. The seven primitive\noperations: $\\mathrm{bind}(r,f) = R_r f$ where\n$R_r = \\mathrm{QR}(\\mathrm{hash}(r)).Q$ is Haar-orthogonal,\n$\\mathrm{unbind}(r,v) = R_r^{\\!\\top} v$,\n$\\mathrm{bundle}(x,y) = (x+y)/(\\lVert x+y\\rVert + \\varepsilon)$,\n$\\mathrm{similarity}(x,y) = (x\\cdot y)/(\\lVert x\\rVert\\,\\lVert y\\rVert + \\varepsilon)$,\n$\\mathrm{normalize}(v) = v/(\\lVert v\\rVert + \\varepsilon)$,\nthe Lagrange Kleene gates as in §1.1-1, and the soft-halt cell\nof §3.4. Full signature/definition table and the soft-halt cell\nupdate equations are in Appendix A.\n\n### 3.2 Capacity of rotation versus Hadamard binding across substrates\n\nWe measure decode accuracy as a function of bundle width k on\nreal embeddings across four substrates spanning two modalities:\nthree frozen LLM text encoders (nomic-embed-text, all-minilm,\nmxbai-embed-large) and one frozen protein language model (ESM-2\nsmall, `facebook/esm2_t6_8M_UR50D`). LLM substrates embed an\n84-word noun vocabulary; the ESM-2 substrate embeds an\n84-sequence amino-acid vocabulary (full protocol in Appendix C).\nFor each bundle width and binding scheme we run 10 trials,\nsampling k random (role, filler) pairs without replacement,\nforming the bundle, and decoding by unbind + argmax-cosine\nagainst the full codebook. *Rotation binding* uses a role-seeded\nHaar-orthogonal `R_role`; *Hadamard binding* is the textbook\nelementwise product (MAP-VSA).\n\nCross-substrate decode accuracy at representative widths (full\nk ∈ {2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48} sweeps in Appendix C):\n\n| substrate (dim)         | rotation k=8 | rotation k=48 | Hadamard k=8 | Hadamard k=48 |\n|-------------------------|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| nomic-embed-text (768)  | 100.0% | 93.3% | 87.5% | 48.3% |\n| all-minilm (384)        | 100.0% | 42.3% |  7.5% |  1.7% |\n| mxbai-embed-large (1024)| 100.0% | 72.1% |  2.5% |  1.0% |\n| ESM-2 (320)             | 100.0% | 44.2% | 28.7% |  4.2% |\n\nESM-2 (Lin et al., Science 2023) is a protein language model\ntrained on UniRef with no natural-language exposure; the same\nrotation-vs-Hadamard pattern reproduces in that modality.\nRotation reversibility round-trip across all four substrates:\nmean ‖unbind(R, bind(R, x)) − x‖ = 1.5 × 10⁻¹⁵ (floating-point\nround-off, Q orthogonal). Reproduction:\n`experiments/rotation_binding_capacity_{llm,bioinformatics}.py`.\n\n#### 3.2.1 Noise accumulation across chained bind/unbind cycles\n\nThe §3.2 protocol measures one bind+bundle+unbind cycle. Nested\nrecords — a recovered filler becoming the role of a sub-record —\nadd bundle noise per level. We measured this directly: chain\nlengths L ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8, ...}, 20 trials, bundle width 4. Raw\naccuracy holds at 100% through L=2 on every substrate and falls\nto chance (1/84) by L=8. The demonstrated regime is therefore\nsingle-cycle records, which matches the shape of the\n`role_filler_record`, `knowledge_graph`, and predicate-lookup\ndemos. Pure rotation chains without per-step distractor bundling\nremain exact (round-trip 1.5×10⁻¹⁵ per cycle), so the noise\nmechanism here does not apply to the soft-halt loop cell of §3.4.\nReproduction script: `experiments/crosstalk_chain.py`; full\nper-substrate L-sweep tables in Appendix D.\n\n### 3.3 The extended-state-vector layout\n\nEvery value carries a fixed `[semantic | synthetic]` layout:\nthe d-dimensional semantic block holds the substrate embedding\nfor vector-shaped values, and a small synthetic block reserves\ncanonical axes for primitive types (real, imag, truth, char) and\na loop-completion flag, with the remaining axes paired into 2D\nGivens planes for variable slots. Default at d = 768\n(nomic-embed-text): a 100-dim synthetic block accommodates the\nfive canonical axes plus 47 disjoint slots. Rotation binding is\nblock-diagonal across the split (`Q_role` is Haar-random in the\nsemantic block, identity on the synthetic block), so the\nsynthetic axes pass through bind/unbind unchanged — a fuzzy-truth\nscalar can coexist with a semantic vector inside the same value\nwithout bind smearing them. Full per-axis purpose table and slot\nallocator details in Appendix B.\n\n### 3.4 First-class loops as RNN cells\n\nRuntime data-dependent loops compile to **self-halting RNN\ncells**. Each tick: snapshot pre-step state, evaluate halt on\nthe substrate (truth-axis read → heaviside → cumulative\nsaturating sum to `halted`), run the cell body, soft-mux\nbetween pre- and new-step state by `halted`. A Python\n`while True:` driver breaks the moment `halted` saturates;\nthis is the only host-side branch in the loop machinery. Inside\nthe cell body, every operation is a substrate tensor op. No\ncompile-time iteration cap — programs terminate when their halt\ncondition fires. Standard PyTorch tracing handles a Python\nwhile-loop wrapping pure tensor ops; autograd records each\niteration as it executes, which is the mechanism §3.6 relies on\nfor backprop through the cell. Figure~\\ref{fig:halt-cell}\nvisualizes one tick.\n\n\\begin{figure}[h!]\n\\centering\n\\begin{tikzpicture}[\n  node distance=7mm,\n  every node/.style={font=\\footnotesize},\n  io/.style={draw, rounded corners, minimum width=22mm, minimum height=6mm, align=center},\n  op/.style={draw, minimum width=32mm, minimum height=7mm, align=center},\n  acc/.style={draw, double, minimum width=32mm, minimum height=7mm, align=center},\n  arr/.style={-{Latex[length=2mm]}, thick}\n]\n  \\node[io] (sin) {state\\textsubscript{in} $s_t$};\n  \\node[op, below left=8mm and 6mm of sin]  (pre)  {snapshot $\\to s_t^{\\mathrm{pre}}$};\n  \\node[op, below right=8mm and 6mm of sin] (body) {cell body \\\\ \\scriptsize{$s_{t+1} = R\\,s_t$;\\;\\; $h_t = \\mathrm{Heaviside}(\\mathrm{cond}(s_t))$}};\n  \\node[acc, below=of body] (acc) {$H_t = \\mathrm{sat}_{[0,1]}\\!\\bigl(H_{t-1} + h_t\\bigr)$};\n  \\node[op, below=of acc, xshift=-20mm] (mux) {soft-mux freeze \\\\ \\scriptsize{$\\hat{s}_{t+1} = H_t\\, s_t^{\\mathrm{pre}} + (1-H_t)\\,s_{t+1}$}};\n  \\node[io, below=of mux] (sout) {state\\textsubscript{out} $\\hat{s}_{t+1}$};\n\n  \\draw[arr] (sin) -- (pre);\n  \\draw[arr] (sin) -- (body);\n  \\draw[arr] (body) -- (acc);\n  \\draw[arr] (acc) -- (mux);\n  \\draw[arr] (pre) |- (mux);\n  \\draw[arr] (body.south) to[bend left=15] (mux.east);\n  \\draw[arr] (mux) -- (sout);\n\\end{tikzpicture}\n\\caption{Per-tick dataflow of the soft-halt RNN cell. Once $H_t$ saturates at $1$, the soft-mux output equals $s_t^{\\mathrm{pre}}$ — the loop has frozen. The cumulative halt $H_t$ acts as a boundary read of the same shape as the codebook decode (§3.5).}\n\\label{fig:halt-cell}\n\\end{figure}\n\n**Constant memory in recursion depth.** The state vector is\nfixed-width and shared across iterations, so a tail-recursive\nloop consumes O(1) memory in the state vector regardless of\ntrip count. Compute is O(N) and the autograd tape during\ntraining is O(N) in iterations actually executed (standard\nPyTorch, freed after backward). To the authors' knowledge no\nother HDC system or compiler exposes user-program-level\nrecursion: HDCC is scoped to classification pipelines, TorchHD\nrequires the user to write Python loops over hypervectors. The\nrecurrent shape that emerges is what Siegelmann & Sontag (1992)\nshowed computes any Turing-machine-computable function with\nrational weights.\n\n### 3.5 I/O is in the embedding space; the codebook is a comfort layer\n\nA Sutra program's inputs and outputs are embeddings in the\nsubstrate's vector space. Strings are a convenience for writing\nsource-level literals: every string literal in `.su` source is\nembedded once at compile time and stored in a **codebook**\n(implemented as an embedded vector database with an HNSW index,\non disk as a `.sdb` file shipped alongside the compiled module).\nAt the program's output boundary, the runtime decode\n`_VSA.nearest_string(query)` maps a query embedding to the\nnearest stored string when the program's caller wants a string\nback. Calling the codebook at this boundary is shape-equivalent\nto calling PyTorch for a matmul — neither is the kind of\nhost-side control flow substrate purity forbids. Implementation\ndetails (RDF triple layout, HNSW parameters, `.sdb` file format,\ncomplexity analysis) are in Appendix E.\n\n### 3.6 End-to-end differentiable training through Sutra operations\n\nBecause every Sutra primitive compiles to a differentiable tensor\noperation, the compiled graph supports standard PyTorch\n`loss.backward()` without modification. We verify this by\ntraining learnable parameters through a fuzzy-logic classifier\nbuilt entirely from Sutra operations.\n\n**Setup.** 992 words across twenty semantic categories\n(50 each, deduplicated; full list in Appendix G) are embedded\nvia nomic-embed-text (768-d, frozen). Twenty learnable prototype\nvectors are initialized randomly. The classifier computes cosine\nsimilarity between input and each prototype and applies a\nLagrange-interpolated fuzzy if-then rule:\n\n$$\n\\mathrm{rule}_i \\;=\\; \\mathrm{AND}\\!\\Bigl(\\mathrm{sim}(x, p_i),\\;\\bigwedge_{j \\ne i} \\mathrm{NOT}\\!\\bigl(\\mathrm{sim}(x, p_j)\\bigr)\\Bigr)\n$$\n\nwith the AND-of-NOTs left-folded across $K-1$ other classes (so\nthe $K=20$ rule nests nineteen ANDs deep). Full-batch cross-entropy\nover the twenty rule scores drives Adam updates (lr=0.005) on\nthe prototype embeddings.\n\n**Results.** Random init: 4% accuracy (chance = 5%). Training\nreaches 95% by epoch 50 and holds through epoch 299, loss\nconverging to 1.154. Gradient norms at all twenty prototypes are\nnonzero throughout (range 0.94–4.20), so backprop reaches every\nlearnable parameter through `similarity` → `fuzzy_not` →\nnineteen nested `fuzzy_and` → cross-entropy.\n\n| Phase  | Accuracy | Loss  |\n|--------|---------:|------:|\n| Before |     4%   |  3.01 |\n| After  |    95%   |  1.15 |\n\nFigure~\\ref{fig:k3-pipeline} draws the explicit graph for $K=3$;\nthe $K=20$ graph used in the experiment has the same shape with\ntwenty learnable prototypes and the AND-of-NOTs left-folded across\nnineteen $\\mathrm{NOT}(\\mathrm{sim})$ terms. The input embedding\nfans out to K cosine-similarity nodes against the K learnable\nprototypes, each `sim_i` enters one branch of an AND-tree (the\ni-th rule takes `sim_i` directly and `NOT(sim_j)` for j ≠ i), the\nK rule scores are stacked, scaled by temperature, softmaxed, and\ncross-entropied against the label. Every node is a PyTorch tensor\nop; every edge carries a vector or scalar. There are no Python\nbranches, no host-side dispatch, no string-keyed lookup — backprop\nreaches every learnable parameter through the same compiled graph\nthat runs at inference.\n\n\\begin{figure}[h!]\n\\centering\n\\begin{tikzpicture}[\n  node distance=6mm and 9mm,\n  every node/.style={font=\\footnotesize},\n  io/.style={draw, rounded corners, minimum width=18mm, minimum height=6mm, align=center},\n  op/.style={draw, minimum width=14mm, minimum height=6mm, align=center},\n  proto/.style={draw, dashed, minimum width=14mm, minimum height=6mm, align=center},\n  arr/.style={-{Latex[length=2mm]}, thick}\n]\n  \\node[io] (x) {input $x \\in \\mathbb{R}^d$};\n  \\node[op, below left=8mm and 18mm of x] (cos1) {$\\cos(x, p_1)$};\n  \\node[op, below=8mm of x]                 (cos2) {$\\cos(x, p_2)$};\n  \\node[op, below right=8mm and 18mm of x] (cos3) {$\\cos(x, p_3)$};\n\n  \\node[proto, left=4mm of cos1] (p1) {$p_1$};\n  \\node[proto, left=4mm of cos2] (p2) {$p_2$};\n  \\node[proto, left=4mm of cos3] (p3) {$p_3$};\n\n  \\node[op, below=6mm of cos2] (not2) {$\\mathrm{NOT}$};\n  \\node[op, below=6mm of cos3] (not3) {$\\mathrm{NOT}$};\n  \\node[op, below=6mm of not2, xshift=8mm] (andneg) {$\\mathrm{AND}$};\n  \\node[below=1mm of andneg, font=\\scriptsize] {neg-others};\n\n  \\node[op, below=14mm of cos1] (and1) {$\\mathrm{AND}$};\n  \\node[io, below=6mm of and1]  (rule1) {$\\mathrm{rule}_1$};\n\n  \\node[io, right=22mm of rule1] (stack) {$(\\mathrm{rule}_1, \\mathrm{rule}_2, \\mathrm{rule}_3)$};\n  \\node[op, below=6mm of stack]   (sm)   {$\\times \\tau \\to \\mathrm{softmax}$};\n  \\node[op, below=6mm of sm]      (ce)   {cross-entropy(label)};\n  \\node[io, below=6mm of ce]      (loss) {loss};\n\n  \\draw[arr] (x) -- (cos1);\n  \\draw[arr] (x) -- (cos2);\n  \\draw[arr] (x) -- (cos3);\n  \\draw[arr] (p1) -- (cos1);\n  \\draw[arr] (p2) -- (cos2);\n  \\draw[arr] (p3) -- (cos3);\n  \\draw[arr] (cos2) -- (not2);\n  \\draw[arr] (cos3) -- (not3);\n  \\draw[arr] (not2) -- (andneg);\n  \\draw[arr] (not3) -- (andneg);\n  \\draw[arr] (cos1) -- (and1);\n  \\draw[arr] (andneg) -| (and1);\n  \\draw[arr] (and1) -- (rule1);\n  \\draw[arr] (rule1) -- (stack);\n  \\draw[arr] (stack) -- (sm);\n  \\draw[arr] (sm) -- (ce);\n  \\draw[arr] (ce) -- (loss);\n\\end{tikzpicture}\n\\caption{The $K=3$ rule pipeline. Solid boxes are PyTorch tensor ops; dashed boxes are learnable prototypes. The AND in the leftmost branch combines $\\cos(x, p_1)$ with the AND-of-NOTs over the other classes; rule\\textsubscript{2} and rule\\textsubscript{3} (omitted for clarity) have the symmetric shape. Every edge is a tensor; backprop reaches each $p_i$ through this graph.}\n\\label{fig:k3-pipeline}\n\\end{figure}\n\nAt K=20 the rule for class i is an AND of `sim(x, proto_i)`\nwith a left-folded chain of nineteen `NOT(sim)` terms — a tensor\npipeline that could naively saturate or vanish gradients\nsomewhere along the chain. Empirically it doesn't: every\nprototype receives a nonzero gradient, accuracy reaches 95% on a\nvocabulary 70× larger than the K=3 setting (15 → 992 words), and\nthe symbolic program text is unchanged across training. The\nremaining 5% gap is honest semantic overlap (e.g. *salmon* fits\nfood and color); gradient norms remain bounded above zero\nthroughout, so this is the optimizer plateauing under those\noverlaps, not gradient pathology. Standard `torch.autograd`\nsuffices — no Sutra-specific autograd machinery — because the\ncompiler emits only operations PyTorch already knows how to\ndifferentiate. Reproduction:\n`experiments/differentiable_training.py` + raw JSON.\n\n---\n\n## 4. The Sutra Compiler\n\nThe compiler is a five-stage pipeline:\n\n1. **Lex + parse** — `.su` source → AST.\n2. **Inline + simplify** — stdlib operator definitions inlined; an\n   egglog-based simplifier folds equivalent expressions and runs\n   common-subexpression elimination over the algebra.\n3. **Codegen** — AST → Python source emitting PyTorch tensor ops.\n   The emitted module includes the runtime class (`_TorchVSA`) as\n   inline source so the artifact is self-contained.\n4. **Compile-time substrate population** — embed_batch fetches\n   embeddings for every string literal; `populate_sutradb` pushes\n   the codebook into SutraDB; `prewarm_rotation_cache` precomputes\n   role rotations.\n5. **Execute** — emitted module loaded; chosen device (CUDA or\n   CPU) initialized at module import; `main()` called; result\n   returned.\n\nThe runtime class is emitted inline rather than imported because\nthe emitted module *is* the substrate-pure tensor-op graph; the\ncompile-time decisions (extended-state-vector dimensions, codebook\ncontents, role rotations, SutraDB path, optional `torch.compile`)\nare all baked into the emitted source. Re-running a compiled\nmodule hits the disk-cached embeddings and the precomputed\nrotations on second-and-later runs.\n\nStages 1–4 run at compile time; stage 5 is the runtime forward\npass. The compile-time/runtime boundary is exactly where\nneural-network training versus inference draws the line — by\nthe time stage 5 begins, every role rotation, codebook entry,\nand stdlib reduction has been resolved to a constant tensor or\na primitive op, the same way a feed-forward network's weights\nare constants by inference time. Figure~\\ref{fig:compile-pipeline}\ndraws the pipeline as a vertical flow with the residual at each\nstage.\n\n\\begin{figure}[h!]\n\\centering\n\\begin{tikzpicture}[\n  node distance=4mm,\n  every node/.style={font=\\footnotesize},\n  res/.style={draw, rounded corners, minimum width=80mm, minimum height=7mm, align=center},\n  stage/.style={draw=none, font=\\scriptsize\\itshape, align=center},\n  arr/.style={-{Latex[length=2mm]}, thick},\n  divider/.style={dashed, gray}\n]\n  \\node[res] (src)   {source code (\\texttt{.su})};\n  \\node[stage, below=of src]   (s1) {(1) lex + parse};\n  \\node[res, below=of s1]     (ast) {AST \\quad (\\texttt{Call} / \\texttt{Var} / \\texttt{Function} / \\texttt{ClassDecl})};\n  \\node[stage, below=of ast]   (s2) {(2) inline stdlib + egglog simplify\\\\\\textnormal{bind, bundle, similarity $\\to$ primitive tensor ops}};\n  \\node[res, below=of s2]     (sast) {simplified AST \\quad (residual: leaf tensor-op composition)};\n  \\node[stage, below=of sast]  (s3) {(3) codegen \\quad (emit Python module + inline \\texttt{\\_VSA} class source)};\n  \\node[res, below=of s3]     (mod) {Python module text \\quad (self-contained, no Sutra-runtime import)};\n  \\node[stage, below=of mod]   (s4) {(4) compile-time substrate population\\\\\\textnormal{\\texttt{embed\\_batch} $\\cdot$ \\texttt{prewarm\\_rotation\\_cache} $\\cdot$ \\texttt{populate\\_sutradb}}};\n  \\node[res, below=of s4]     (warm) {warm runtime \\quad (module loaded, \\texttt{.sdb} codebook, cached $R_\\mathrm{role}$)};\n  \\node[below=2mm of warm, font=\\scriptsize\\sffamily] (cline) {compile time \\;\\;$\\big/$\\;\\; runtime};\n  \\node[stage, below=of cline] (s5) {(5) forward pass on input tensors};\n  \\node[res, below=of s5]     (out) {output vector $\\to$ \\texttt{nearest\\_string} lookup $\\to$ label};\n\n  \\draw[arr] (src) -- (ast);\n  \\draw[arr] (ast) -- (sast);\n  \\draw[arr] (sast) -- (mod);\n  \\draw[arr] (mod) -- (warm);\n  \\draw[divider] ([xshift=-50mm]cline.center) -- ([xshift=50mm]cline.center);\n  \\draw[arr] (warm) -- (out);\n\\end{tikzpicture}\n\\caption{Five-stage compilation pipeline of §4. Boxes are intermediate artifacts; italic labels are the compiler passes that connect them. Stages (1)--(4) run at compile time; the dashed line marks the compile/runtime boundary; stage (5) is the runtime forward pass.}\n\\label{fig:compile-pipeline}\n\\end{figure}\n\n### 4.1 Substrate-purity invariants\n\nThree invariants the compiler enforces: (1) every primitive runs\non the substrate (numpy is allowed only at compile time for\ncodebook construction and rotation pre-warm, never on the runtime\nhot path); (2) no scalar extraction inside an operation —\noperations may not unpack a Python float from a substrate vector,\ndo scalar arithmetic, and pack the result back; (3) no Python\ncontrol flow inside an operation — loop halt uses substrate\nprimitives (`heaviside`, `saturate_unit`) instead of Python\nternaries.\n\n### 4.2 Compile-time resolution to tensor normal form\n\nThe central compile-time mechanism that lets the compiler\nachieve tensor normal form is **precomputed rotation matrices**:\nevery role rotation is constructed at compile time\n(`prewarm_rotation_cache`) and stored as a constant tensor. At\nruntime, `bind(role, filler)` is a single matmul against a\nprecomputed matrix — the compile-time resolution eliminates the\nQR construction from the runtime graph entirely. Role rotations\nare constants from the runtime's perspective, the same way\nneural-network weights are constants at inference time. With\n`torch.compile` (opt-in via `SUTRA_TORCH_COMPILE=1`), the\ntracer further folds the per-tick loop body into a single fused\nkernel.\n\n### 4.3 A worked lowering\n\nA two-field bundled record `encode2(r_a, f_a, r_b, f_b) :=\nbundle(bind(r_a, f_a), bind(r_b, f_b))` lowers in five stages\n(parse → stdlib beta-substitution → compile-time `RotationFor`\nresolution → peephole fusion to `_VSA.bundle_of_binds` → leaf\ntensor ops `einsum + linalg.norm + divide`) over rotations\nmaterialized at compile time. Appendix F traces each stage with\nthe residual after every reduction. The bottom of the chain\ncontains no `bind`/`bundle`/`normalize` symbol and no Python\ncontrol flow; surface lambda calculus and runtime tensor\narithmetic are two notations for the same computation.\n\n---\n\n## 5. Demonstration corpus\n\nThe smoke test (`examples/_smoke_test.py`) runs 10 demonstration\nprograms end-to-end (`hello-world`, fuzzy branching, role-filler\nrecord, classifier, analogy, knowledge graph, predicate lookup,\nfuzzy dispatch, nearest-phrase retrieval, sequence reduction)\nacross 27 `.su` files in `examples/`. Loop coverage lives in\n`examples/do_while_adder.su` and the 23-case\n`test_loop_function_decl.py` suite. Each program exercises a\ndifferent language feature; the §3.6 differentiable-training\nexperiment uses the same primitive set those programs are built\nfrom.\n\n---\n\n## 6. Limitations and Future Work\n\n### 6.1 Codebook integration depth\n\nThe embedded codebook store covers the compile-time embed →\nruntime decode path today. Extended features (hashmap routing,\npersistent codebook across runs via `SUTRA_DB_PATH`) are\ndeferred until there is a concrete requirement beyond the\ncurrent demonstration corpus.\n\n---\n\n## 7. Conclusion\n\nSutra is a working compiler from a typed pure-functional source\nlanguage to a substrate-pure PyTorch tensor-op graph. The design\nchoice that makes it tractable is uniform shape: every value is\nthe same vector layout, every operation is one tensor op, the\nwhole program is a dataflow graph with no type dispatch at the\nleaves. With the language in hand, the question of which\nembedding operations actually compose at what capacity on which\nsubstrates becomes a program to write rather than a script to\nglue together.\n\n---\n\n## References\n\n- Darwiche, A., & Marquis, P. (2002). A knowledge compilation\n  map. *JAIR* 17:229–264.\n- Gayler, R. W. (2003). 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Establishes that recurrent\n  neural networks with rational weights are Turing-complete; the\n  result Sutra inherits via tail-recursive loops over a\n  fixed-width state vector.\n- Smolensky, P. (1990). Tensor product variable binding and the\n  representation of symbolic structures in connectionist systems.\n  *Artificial Intelligence* 46(1–2):159–216.\n\n---\n\n## Appendix\n\n### Appendix A — Notation: extended layout and primitive operations\n\nWe work in a fixed-dimensional real vector space $\\mathbb{R}^d$\nwhere $d$ is the substrate's embedding dimension (768 for\nnomic-embed-text, 384 for all-minilm, 1024 for mxbai-embed-large,\n320 for ESM-2). Every Sutra value carries the extended layout\n$[\\,\\text{semantic}\\mid\\text{synthetic}\\,]$ — a $d$-dimensional\nsemantic block holding the substrate embedding, concatenated with\na small fixed-width synthetic block reserving canonical axes for\nprimitive types (real, imag, truth, char, loop-done) and slot\nmachinery (§3.3). Where notation does not distinguish, \"vector\"\nmeans \"the full extended-layout tensor.\" \n\nThe seven primitive operations are:\n\n\\begin{align*}\n\\mathrm{bind}(r, f)        &\\;=\\; R_r \\, f, \\qquad R_r = \\mathrm{QR}\\!\\left(\\mathrm{seed}=\\mathrm{hash}(r)\\right)\\!.Q \\\\\n\\mathrm{unbind}(r, v)      &\\;=\\; R_r^{\\!\\top} v \\\\\n\\mathrm{bundle}(x, y)      &\\;=\\; \\frac{x + y}{\\lVert x + y \\rVert + \\varepsilon} \\\\\n\\mathrm{similarity}(x, y)  &\\;=\\; \\frac{x \\cdot y}{\\lVert x \\rVert \\, \\lVert y \\rVert + \\varepsilon} \\\\\n\\mathrm{normalize}(v)      &\\;=\\; \\frac{v}{\\lVert v \\rVert + \\varepsilon}\n\\end{align*}\n\nplus the Lagrange Kleene gates (scalar $\\to$ scalar, exact on the\n$\\{-1,0,+1\\}^2$ grid, §1.1‑1) and the soft-halt cell\n(state, halt $\\to$ state$'$, halt$'$, §3.4).\n\nThe Lagrange gates in closed form:\n\n\\begin{align*}\n\\mathrm{AND}(a, b)  &\\;=\\; \\tfrac{1}{2}\\!\\left(a + b + ab - a^2 - b^2 + a^2 b^2\\right) \\\\\n\\mathrm{OR}(a, b)   &\\;=\\; \\tfrac{1}{2}\\!\\left(a + b - ab + a^2 + b^2 - a^2 b^2\\right) \\\\\n\\mathrm{NOT}(a)     &\\;=\\; -a \\\\\n\\mathrm{XOR}(a, b)  &\\;=\\; -ab \\\\\n\\mathrm{XNOR}(a, b) &\\;=\\; ab\n\\end{align*}\n\nThe soft-halt cell update is, in compact form,\n\n\\begin{align*}\ns_{t+1}      &\\;=\\; R \\, s_t                                && \\text{(rotation step)} \\\\\nh_t          &\\;=\\; \\mathrm{Heaviside}\\!\\left(\\mathrm{cond}(s_t)\\right) && \\text{(per-tick halt signal)} \\\\\nH_t          &\\;=\\; \\mathrm{sat}_{[0,1]}\\!\\left(\\textstyle\\sum_{k\\le t} h_k\\right) && \\text{(cumulative monotone halt)} \\\\\n\\hat{s}_{t+1}&\\;=\\; H_t \\, s_t + (1 - H_t)\\, s_{t+1}        && \\text{(soft-mux freeze)}\n\\end{align*}\n\nEvery right-hand side is a tensor expression with no Python\ncontrol flow. The compile-time primitives `RotationFor` and\n`embed` produce constants $R_r$ and basis vectors at compile\ntime and are not part of the runtime tensor graph.\n\n### Appendix B — Extended-state-vector layout: per-axis assignments\n\n§3.3 describes the `[semantic | synthetic]` layout in prose. The\ndiagram and per-axis purpose table below give the concrete\nallocation referenced in `codegen_pytorch.py`:\n\n```\n          +-------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----------+\n   value  | semantic block          | R  | I  | T  | C  | L  | slots... |\n          +-------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----------+\n          |<-- semantic_dim ------->|<--- synthetic_dim ----------------|>\n                                       0    1    2    3    4    5..\n                                      REAL IMAG TRUTH CHAR LOOP_DONE\n                                                      _FLAG\n```\n\n| Index             | Purpose                                                     |\n|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `synthetic[0]`    | `AXIS_REAL` (real component for int/float/complex)          |\n| `synthetic[1]`    | `AXIS_IMAG` (imaginary component for complex)               |\n| `synthetic[2]`    | `AXIS_TRUTH` (fuzzy truth scalar; bool/comparisons)         |\n| `synthetic[3]`    | `AXIS_CHAR_FLAG` (marks char primitives)                    |\n| `synthetic[4]`    | `AXIS_LOOP_DONE` (substrate-side completion flag)           |\n| `synthetic[5..]`  | `SLOT_BASE` — disjoint 2D Givens slots for variable storage |\n\nAt `semantic_dim = 768` (nomic-embed-text), `synthetic_dim = 100`\naccommodates the five canonical axes plus 47 disjoint Givens slots.\n\n### Appendix C — Capacity: full per-substrate sweeps\n\nCross-substrate decode accuracy at full bundle widths\nk ∈ {2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48}. The four substrates use 84-entry\nvocabularies (LLM substrates: 84-word noun set spanning animals,\nfoods, objects, places, abstract nouns; ESM-2: 84-sequence\namino-acid set covering canonical signal peptides,\ncell-penetrating peptides, antimicrobial peptides, classic\naffinity-tag motifs, and deterministic random k-mers). All\nembeddings are unit-normalized; nomic-embed-text and ESM-2 are\nadditionally mean-centered.\n\n**nomic-embed-text (768-d, mean-centered):**\n\n| k | rotation accuracy | rotation signal cos | Hadamard accuracy | Hadamard signal cos |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 2  | 100.0% | +0.703 | 95.0% | +0.488 |\n| 4  | 100.0% | +0.497 | 95.0% | +0.400 |\n| 8  | 100.0% | +0.354 | 87.5% | +0.307 |\n| 16 | 100.0% | +0.251 | 84.4% | +0.230 |\n| 24 | 100.0% | +0.203 | 60.8% | +0.189 |\n| 32 |  99.1% | +0.176 | 63.1% | +0.167 |\n| 48 |  93.3% | +0.144 | 48.3% | +0.136 |\n\n**all-minilm (384-d):**\n\n| k | rotation accuracy | rotation signal cos | Hadamard accuracy | Hadamard signal cos |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 2  | 100.0% | +0.711 | 45.0% | +0.386 |\n| 4  | 100.0% | +0.506 | 10.0% | +0.335 |\n| 8  | 100.0% | +0.356 |  7.5% | +0.315 |\n| 16 |  92.5% | +0.252 |  3.1% | +0.299 |\n| 24 |  76.2% | +0.203 |  2.9% | +0.300 |\n| 32 |  66.9% | +0.179 |  2.5% | +0.297 |\n| 48 |  42.3% | +0.144 |  1.7% | +0.294 |\n\n**mxbai-embed-large (1024-d):**\n\n| k | rotation accuracy | rotation signal cos | Hadamard accuracy | Hadamard signal cos |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 2  | 100.0% | +0.708 | 15.0% | +0.311 |\n| 4  | 100.0% | +0.500 |  2.5% | +0.304 |\n| 8  | 100.0% | +0.353 |  2.5% | +0.295 |\n| 16 |  98.8% | +0.251 |  1.2% | +0.294 |\n| 24 |  95.8% | +0.203 |  0.8% | +0.293 |\n| 32 |  85.3% | +0.176 |  0.9% | +0.292 |\n| 48 |  72.1% | +0.146 |  1.0% | +0.291 |\n\n**ESM-2 small protein language model (320-d, mean-centered):**\n\n| k | rotation accuracy | rotation signal cos | Hadamard accuracy | Hadamard signal cos |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 2  | 100.0% | +0.713 | 75.0% | +0.470 |\n| 4  | 100.0% | +0.501 | 50.0% | +0.323 |\n| 8  | 100.0% | +0.349 | 28.7% | +0.257 |\n| 16 |  90.6% | +0.252 | 16.2% | +0.185 |\n| 24 |  77.1% | +0.205 | 11.2% | +0.171 |\n| 32 |  61.9% | +0.174 |  6.2% | +0.141 |\n| 48 |  44.2% | +0.143 |  4.2% | +0.117 |\n\nThe signal cosine for Hadamard is comparable to rotation's, but\nthe noise floor is much higher because the elementwise product\nof correlated real-valued embeddings produces a result that\noverlaps with many distractors in the codebook rather than\nnear-orthogonally with one.\n\n### Appendix D — Crosstalk depth: full per-substrate L-sweep\n\nThe §3.2.1 protocol: chain length L ∈ {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32}, 20\ntrials, bundle width 4 (3 distractors per cycle). Forward-bind\nthrough L role rotations bundling 3 distractor (role, filler)\npairs at each step; unbind in reverse and decode. Two flavors:\n*raw* (no cleanup) and *snap* (argmax-cosine cleanup against the\ncodebook after each unbind step).\n\n| substrate         | L=1 raw | L=2 raw | L=4 raw | L=1 snap | L=2 snap | L=4 snap |\n|-------------------|--------:|--------:|--------:|---------:|---------:|---------:|\n| nomic-embed-text  | 100%    | 100%    | 20%     | 100%     | 10%      | 0%       |\n| all-minilm        | 100%    | 100%    | 5%      | 100%     | 0%       | 0%       |\n| mxbai-embed-large | 100%    | 100%    | 5%      | 100%     | 0%       | 0%       |\n\nBy chain length 8 raw accuracy is at chance (1/84) on all three\nsubstrates. Snap is *worse* than raw past chain length 1: a\nhard codebook commitment converts soft noise into a\nhigh-confidence wrong answer that the next unbind cannot\nrecover from. The runtime does not implicitly snap between\noperations; cleanup is an explicit step the program schedules\nwhere it knows the codebook is the right reference. Reproduction\nscript: `experiments/crosstalk_chain.py`; raw JSON in\n`experiments/crosstalk_chain_results.json`.\n\n### Appendix E — Codebook implementation details\n\nThe §3.5 codebook is implemented as an embedded vector database\n(internally SutraDB) shipped as part of the compiler — analogous\nto SQLite being embedded in an application rather than run as a\nseparate service. The data model is RDF\ntriples with f32-vector literals as the object position, indexed\nby a built-in HNSW index for nearest-neighbor decode. The\non-disk format is a `.sdb` file that travels alongside the\ncompiled Python module; no external service, no separate\ninstall, no network dependency. Every embedded string in a\nSutra program is inserted with the embedding as the object of a\ntriple typed `<http://sutra.dev/f32vec>`. Strings declared but\nunused in expressions are still inserted, so they remain\ndecodable. The compiled module's Python data section never\ncarries the embeddings — they live in the `.sdb` file, an\nartifact of compilation, not a service the runtime contacts.\n\n`nearest_string` runs over an HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable\nSmall World) approximate-nearest-neighbor graph maintained by\nthe triplestore. HNSW (Malkov & Yashunin, TPAMI 2020) has\n**O(log N) expected and worst-case query time** under standard\ngraph-construction parameters; it has displaced linear scan as\nthe default ANN index in Faiss, Milvus, Weaviate, Qdrant, and\nmost production vector databases. A 100-string codebook and a\n100,000-string codebook have comparable decode latency at\nruntime, modulo HNSW's tunable `M` (graph degree) and\n`ef_search` (beam width); the cost difference is roughly one\nextra graph hop per 10× growth in N.\n\n### Appendix F — Worked lowering of a two-field bundled record\n\nThe body §4.3 sketches the lowering of\n$\\mathrm{encode2}(r_a, f_a, r_b, f_b) \\,:=\\, \\mathrm{bundle}(\\mathrm{bind}(r_a, f_a),\\,\\mathrm{bind}(r_b, f_b))$.\nHere we trace each stage with the explicit residual.\n\n**Stage 1 — AST after parse.** A tree of `Call` nodes over named\nidentifiers: `Call(\"bundle\", Call(\"bind\", r_a, f_a),\nCall(\"bind\", r_b, f_b))`.\n\n**Stage 2 — beta reduction by stdlib inlining.** `bind`,\n`bundle`, and `normalize` are stdlib functions:\n$\\mathrm{bind}(r, f) \\equiv \\mathrm{RotationFor}(r)\\,f$,\n$\\mathrm{bundle}(x, y) \\equiv \\mathrm{normalize}(x + y)$,\n$\\mathrm{normalize}(v) \\equiv v / (\\lVert v\\rVert + \\varepsilon)$.\nAfter substitution the body becomes\n\n$$\n\\mathrm{normalize}\\!\\bigl(\\mathrm{RotationFor}(r_a)\\,f_a \\;+\\; \\mathrm{RotationFor}(r_b)\\,f_b\\bigr).\n$$\n\nNo `bind` or `bundle` symbol remains; the residual is straight-\nline algebra over four tensor primitives.\n\n**Stage 3 — compile-time constant resolution.**\n$\\mathrm{RotationFor}(r)$ is a compile-time function returning\n$R = \\mathrm{QR}(\\mathrm{seed}=\\mathrm{hash}(r)).Q$. The compiler\nevaluates it for each role at compile time, freezes the results\nas constant tensors $R_a$ and $R_b$, and stores them in the\nrotation cache. The body becomes\n$\\mathrm{normalize}(R_a\\,f_a + R_b\\,f_b)$ — $R_a$ and $R_b$ are\nnow load-bearing constants in the same sense as the weight\nmatrices of a feed-forward network.\n\n**Stage 4 — peephole fusion.** The simplifier recognizes\n$\\mathrm{normalize}\\!\\bigl(\\textstyle\\sum_i R_i\\,f_i\\bigr)$ as the\nbundle-of-binds pattern and rewrites it to\n`_VSA.bundle_of_binds([(R_a, f_a), (R_b, f_b)])` — one kernel\nlaunch instead of two matmuls + add + norm.\n\n**Stage 5 — leaf tensor ops at runtime.** `bundle_of_binds`\nstacks rotations into a $(k, d, d)$ tensor, stacks fillers into\n$(k, d)$, runs one batched einsum + sum + L2-normalize:\n\n\\begin{align*}\nv          &\\;=\\; \\sum_{k} R_k\\,f_k \\;=\\; \\mathtt{einsum(\"kij,kj->i\",\\; \\mathrm{stack}([R_a, R_b]),\\; \\mathrm{stack}([f_a, f_b]))} \\\\\n\\mathrm{encode2} &\\;=\\; v \\,/\\, (\\lVert v\\rVert + \\varepsilon)\n\\end{align*}\n\nThe compiled forward pass for `encode2` is exactly those three\ntorch calls — einsum, linalg.norm, divide — over precomputed\n$R_a, R_b$ and runtime-supplied $f_a, f_b$.\n\n### Appendix G — §3.6 differentiable-training vocabulary\n\nTwenty categories of fifty words each (992 unique after\ndeduplication), embedded via nomic-embed-text:\n\n- **animal**: dog, cat, bird, fish, horse, lion, tiger, elephant, rabbit, monkey, bear, wolf, fox, deer, mouse, snake, frog, turtle, dolphin, whale, shark, eagle, owl, sparrow, crow, robin, parrot, swan, duck, goose, chicken, cow, pig, sheep, goat, donkey, camel, giraffe, kangaroo, koala, panda, leopard, cheetah, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, antelope, buffalo, hedgehog, squirrel, raccoon\n- **vehicle**: car, truck, airplane, boat, bicycle, motorcycle, bus, train, ship, helicopter, tractor, scooter, van, taxi, jeep, sailboat, kayak, canoe, raft, submarine, glider, jet, rocket, spaceship, sled, skateboard, wagon, carriage, chariot, ambulance, firetruck, limousine, minivan, hatchback, sedan, coupe, convertible, pickup, trailer, ferry, yacht, dinghy, blimp, balloon, hovercraft, tram, moped, tricycle, rollerblade, unicycle\n- **food**: apple, bread, cheese, rice, pasta, banana, salad, soup, meat, pizza, sandwich, burger, taco, sushi, cake, cookie, pie, donut, muffin, pancake, waffle, bagel, croissant, omelet, salmon, tuna, beef, pork, lamb, bacon, ham, sausage, steak, lobster, shrimp, crab, oyster, clam, broccoli, carrot, lettuce, tomato, potato, cucumber, onion, garlic, pepper, eggplant, spinach, mushroom\n- **color**: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, brown, pink, gray, cyan, magenta, violet, indigo, turquoise, teal, lavender, maroon, crimson, scarlet, ruby, gold, silver, bronze, copper, beige, tan, ivory, charcoal, navy, sapphire, emerald, jade, olive, lime, mint, coral, peach, plum, mauve, fuchsia, amber, ochre, sienna, mahogany, chocolate, caramel, mustard, azure\n- **clothing**: shirt, pants, dress, hat, shoes, jacket, socks, gloves, scarf, belt, sweater, hoodie, jeans, shorts, skirt, blouse, coat, cap, beanie, mittens, tights, leggings, vest, blazer, suit, tuxedo, gown, robe, kimono, kilt, poncho, cloak, cape, sneakers, boots, sandals, slippers, heels, loafers, tie, bowtie, cufflinks, watch, ring, necklace, earrings, bracelet, anklet, brooch, headband\n- **weather**: rain, snow, wind, cloud, storm, fog, frost, hail, thunder, lightning, drizzle, downpour, blizzard, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoon, sleet, mist, haze, smog, sunshine, sunlight, sunset, sunrise, dawn, dusk, twilight, breeze, gust, gale, humidity, drought, flood, monsoon, snowfall, snowstorm, rainstorm, sandstorm, heatwave, chill, dew, hailstorm, thaw, overcast, sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy\n- **emotion**: joy, sadness, anger, fear, love, hope, surprise, disgust, pride, envy, happiness, grief, rage, anxiety, affection, despair, delight, shame, guilt, confidence, contentment, jealousy, regret, sorrow, frustration, satisfaction, awe, wonder, gratitude, compassion, sympathy, empathy, irritation, boredom, excitement, enthusiasm, calm, serenity, melancholy, nostalgia, longing, embarrassment, humiliation, indifference, ecstasy, bliss, dread, terror, amusement, loneliness\n- **tool**: hammer, saw, drill, wrench, screwdriver, knife, scissors, pliers, axe, shovel, rake, hoe, spade, pickaxe, crowbar, mallet, chisel, sander, level, ruler, vise, clamp, ratchet, socket, awl, scraper, trowel, broom, mop, sponge, bucket, ladder, jackhammer, sledgehammer, paintbrush, roller, stapler, tongs, tweezers, calipers, magnifier, flashlight, multimeter, wirecutter, hacksaw, router, torch, soldering_iron, drillbit, screwbit\n- **instrument**: guitar, piano, drum, violin, flute, trumpet, saxophone, harp, cello, clarinet, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, harmonica, accordion, organ, keyboard, synthesizer, xylophone, tambourine, maracas, bongos, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, bagpipes, oboe, bassoon, trombone, tuba, lute, sitar, koto, zither, dulcimer, cymbal, gong, triangle, cowbell, snare, kettledrum, recorder, piccolo, fife, didgeridoo, theremin, viola, double_bass, fiddle, ocarina\n- **profession**: doctor, teacher, lawyer, engineer, nurse, chef, artist, scientist, farmer, plumber, electrician, carpenter, mechanic, pilot, sailor, soldier, judge, journalist, writer, poet, painter, sculptor, musician, actor, dancer, singer, photographer, architect, dentist, surgeon, pharmacist, veterinarian, librarian, accountant, banker, broker, programmer, designer, manager, secretary, butcher, baker, gardener, tailor, jeweler, barber, chemist, biologist, physicist, mathematician\n- **body_part**: head, hand, foot, eye, ear, nose, mouth, leg, arm, finger, toe, knee, elbow, shoulder, hip, neck, back, chest, stomach, heart, brain, lung, liver, kidney, bone, muscle, skin, hair, throat, jaw, chin, cheek, forehead, eyebrow, eyelash, lip, tongue, palm, wrist, ankle, thumb, heel, spine, rib, scalp, nostril, gum, knuckle, tendon, vein\n- **plant**: tree, flower, grass, bush, vine, fern, moss, herb, weed, leaf, stem, branch, bark, blossom, petal, oak, maple, willow, birch, cedar, bamboo, cactus, rose, tulip, daisy, lily, sunflower, orchid, ivy, basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, lavender, dandelion, clover, lotus, magnolia, sycamore, redwood, baobab, eucalyptus, juniper, hemlock, fir, spruce, ash, elm, poplar, chestnut\n- **furniture**: chair, table, sofa, bed, desk, shelf, drawer, cabinet, wardrobe, dresser, nightstand, ottoman, bench, stool, recliner, futon, couch, armchair, bookcase, sideboard, buffet, cupboard, hutch, vanity, headboard, footboard, mattress, pillow, cushion, blanket, quilt, comforter, lamp, mirror, rug, carpet, curtain, blind, shutter, hammock, cradle, crib, bassinet, highchair, rocker, loveseat, settee, divan, chaise, headrest\n- **building**: house, apartment, mansion, cottage, cabin, hut, igloo, tent, palace, castle, fortress, tower, skyscraper, office, factory, warehouse, store, mall, restaurant, hotel, motel, hospital, school, university, library, museum, theater, stadium, arena, church, temple, mosque, synagogue, cathedral, chapel, monastery, abbey, barn, shed, garage, basement, attic, cellar, lobby, lounge, hallway, corridor, atrium, foyer, balcony\n- **country**: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile\n- **sport**: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, golf, hockey, rugby, cricket, volleyball, swimming, running, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, sailing, rowing, kayaking, climbing, hiking, boxing, wrestling, fencing, archery, shooting, fishing, hunting, polo, badminton, ping_pong, squash, racquetball, lacrosse, handball, dodgeball, kickball, gymnastics, diving, weightlifting, judo, karate, taekwondo, sumo, marathon, triathlon, decathlon, biathlon, skating, bowling\n- **drink**: water, juice, milk, tea, coffee, soda, beer, wine, whiskey, vodka, rum, gin, tequila, brandy, cognac, champagne, cocktail, smoothie, milkshake, lemonade, cider, ale, lager, stout, bourbon, scotch, sake, mead, punch, eggnog, kombucha, kefir, espresso, latte, cappuccino, mocha, americano, macchiato, frappe, hot_chocolate, cordial, shake, slushie, syrup, fizz, brew, tonic, infusion, ginger_ale, root_beer\n- **metal**: gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, platinum, titanium, chromium, mercury, magnesium, lithium, sodium, potassium, calcium, uranium, plutonium, palladium, tungsten, vanadium, cobalt, manganese, beryllium, gallium, indium, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, neodymium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium, tantalum, thallium, thorium, yttrium, scandium, hafnium, niobium, molybdenum, rhenium, iridium, rubidium\n- **shape**: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, ellipse, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, diamond, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, polygon, sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, pyramid, prism, cuboid, tetrahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, torus, helix, spiral, crescent, star, heart, arrow, cross, line, curve, arc, ring, loop, knot, dot, vertex, edge, angle, parabola, hyperbola, sine, wave, zigzag, scallop, annulus\n- **fabric**: cotton, wool, silk, linen, polyester, nylon, denim, leather, suede, velvet, satin, lace, tweed, cashmere, mohair, fleece, fur, canvas, burlap, jute, flannel, chiffon, organza, taffeta, brocade, damask, paisley, gingham, plaid, herringbone, corduroy, microfiber, spandex, lycra, rayon, viscose, acrylic, polypropylene, jersey, knit, sherpa, gabardine, twill, muslin, gauze, mesh, vinyl, tulle, georgette, voile\n\n### Appendix H — Reproduction details and hyperparameters\n\nPer-experiment configuration. All scripts live under `experiments/`\nin the source repository; each writes a JSON results file to the\nsame directory on completion. RNG seeds are fixed in the source\nfiles cited; re-running reproduces the numbers reported in the\nbody to the precision reported.\n\n| Experiment | §  | Script | Trials / k | Embedding | Optimizer | Seed |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Rotation vs Hadamard, LLM | 3.2 | `rotation_binding_capacity_llm.py` | 10 / k | nomic-embed-text, all-minilm, mxbai-embed-large | — | per-script |\n| Rotation vs Hadamard, ESM-2 | 3.2 | `rotation_binding_capacity_bioinformatics.py` | 10 / k | facebook/esm2\\_t6\\_8M\\_UR50D | — | 1729, 2718 |\n| Crosstalk depth | 3.2.1 | `crosstalk_chain.py` | 20 / L | three LLM substrates | — | per-script |\n| Differentiable training | 3.6 | `differentiable_training.py` | 1 run × 300 epochs | nomic-embed-text (frozen) | Adam, lr=0.005 | 42 |\n\nThe differentiable-training run loads twenty learnable prototype\nvectors (initialized via `torch.randn` × 0.1) and minimizes\nfull-batch cross-entropy over the 992-word vocabulary of\nAppendix G. Vocabulary embeddings are precomputed once and cached\nto `.diff_train_embeddings.pt` (3.3 MB) so subsequent runs skip\nthe embed step. Output: weights → `differentiable_training_weights.pt`\n(3.3 MB), per-epoch metrics → `differentiable_training_results.json`.\n\nHardware used for the numbers in the body: CPU torch on a single\nlaptop (no CUDA). The full §3.6 run completes in ~3 min wall-clock;\nthe §3.2 capacity sweeps complete in ~2 min per substrate; the\n§3.2.1 crosstalk sweep completes in ~5 min. Re-running on CUDA\nshould reproduce the same accuracy numbers since the operations\nare deterministic given a seed.\n\n### Appendix I — Demonstration corpus\n\nThe smoke test (`examples/_smoke_test.py`) compiles and runs ten\n`.su` programs end-to-end and asserts each output against a\nhardcoded expected value. The programs collectively exercise the\nlanguage features the body claims, with no Python control flow on\nthe runtime path:\n\n| Program | Feature exercised |\n|---|---|\n| `hello_world.su`           | embed + retrieve (minimal program) |\n| `fuzzy_branching.su`       | weighted-superposition conditional |\n| `role_filler_record.su`    | bind / bundle / unbind on a 3-field record (§2.1) |\n| `classifier.su`            | cosine-similarity classifier over a small codebook |\n| `analogy.su`               | associative pair memory: capital → country recovery via unbind |\n| `knowledge_graph.su`       | (subject, relation, object) triple encode + decode |\n| `predicate_lookup.su`      | bind-keyed dictionary read |\n| `fuzzy_dispatch.su`        | Lagrange-Kleene-gated dispatch among handlers |\n| `nearest_phrase.su`        | top-1 phrase retrieval over a `.sdb` codebook |\n| `sequence.su`              | foreach reduction over a list |\n\nLoop coverage lives in `examples/do_while_adder.su` and the\n23-case `tests/test_loop_function_decl.py` suite. The §3.6\ndifferentiable-training experiment uses the same primitive set\nthe smoke-test programs are built from — no Sutra-runtime\nextensions, just compilation of `.su` source to PyTorch\ntensor ops.\n\n","skillMd":"---\nname: sutra-language\ndescription: Reproduce results from the Sutra paper — build the compiler, run the 13-program smoke test, run the rotation-vs-Hadamard capacity tables (LLM + ESM-2 protein-LM substrates), the chained-bind crosstalk experiment, plus the loop function decl + codebook test suites.\nallowed-tools: Bash(python *), Bash(pip *), Bash(cd *), Bash(cargo *), Bash(git *), Bash(ollama *)\n---\n\n# Sutra: reproduction skill\n\nSutra is a typed, purely functional programming language whose\nvalues are vectors in a dense embedding space. The compiler emits\nPyTorch tensor ops; programs execute as one tensor computation.\n\n## Setup\n\nThis is a **reproduction skill**: the goal is to clone the\ncanonical Sutra repository and run its bundled tests / examples\nto verify the paper's claims hold on your machine. You are not\nasked to reimplement the language from scratch.\n\n```bash\n# 1. Clone the canonical repository. ALL subsequent commands\n#    assume your shell's working directory is the cloned\n#    `Sutra/` root (the one that contains `paper/`, `sdk/`,\n#    `examples/`, `experiments/`, and `sutraDB/`).\ngit clone https://github.com/EmmaLeonhart/Sutra\ncd Sutra\n\n# 2. Install Python deps and pull the embedding models. nomic-\n#    embed-text is the primary substrate; all-minilm and\n#    mxbai-embed-large are needed for the §3.1 capacity table.\npip install torch torchhd transformers\nollama pull nomic-embed-text\nollama pull all-minilm\nollama pull mxbai-embed-large\n\n# 3. Build the SutraDB FFI shared library (optional but\n#    recommended — without it the embedded-codebook tests skip).\n( cd sutraDB && cargo build --release -p sutra-ffi )\n```\n\n**Pre-flight checks** before running the assertions below:\n- `python --version` should be 3.11+.\n- `python -c \"import torch; print(torch.__version__)\"` should\n  print a version, no traceback.\n- `curl -s http://localhost:11434/api/tags | head -c 50` should\n  show `{\"models\":[...` (Ollama running locally).\n- Run from the repo root. Every shell block below assumes the\n  current directory is the cloned `Sutra/`.\n\n## Compiler + program tests\n\nEach block is a self-contained test. Non-zero exit code means the\nclaim does not reproduce; the assertion captures the success\ncondition the paper claims.\n\n```bash\n# Smoke-test corpus: all 13 demonstration programs run end-to-end.\npython examples/_smoke_test.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: smoke test\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# hello_world prints exactly \"hello world\":\ngot=$(PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/hello_world.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\n[ \"$got\" = \"hello world\" ] || { echo \"FAIL: hello_world got '$got'\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# role_filler_record decodes the color field as \"red\":\ngot=$(PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/role_filler_record.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\n[ \"$got\" = \"red\" ] || { echo \"FAIL: role_filler_record got '$got'\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# protein_record decodes the localization slot as \"membrane\":\ngot=$(PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/protein_record.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\n[ \"$got\" = \"membrane\" ] || { echo \"FAIL: protein_record got '$got'\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# Full unit suite: 237 passed, 7 skipped.\npython -m pytest sdk/sutra-compiler/tests/ -q --ignore=sdk/sutra-compiler/tests/test_simplify_egglog.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: pytest suite\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# Loop function decls (halt-cum + tail-call): 23 tests pass.\npython -m pytest sdk/sutra-compiler/tests/test_loop_function_decl.py -q\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: loop function decls\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# Embedded SutraDB codebook: 7 tests pass (or skip if FFI not built).\npython -m pytest sdk/sutra-compiler/tests/test_sutradb_embedded.py -q\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: sutradb embedded\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# torch.compile wrapping (opt-in): 3 tests pass.\nSUTRA_TORCH_COMPILE=1 python -m pytest sdk/sutra-compiler/tests/test_torch_compile_wrap.py -q\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: torch.compile wrap\"; exit 1; }\n```\n\n```bash\n# T-as-runtime-budget: same compiled program, three different T values.\n# T is potentially unlimited (any non-negative integer); effective work\n# is bounded by the soft-halt cell, so an oversized T does not cost\n# extra compute past convergence.\ngot50=$(PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/do_while_adder.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\ngot200=$(SUTRA_LOOP_T=200 PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/do_while_adder.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\ngot10000=$(SUTRA_LOOP_T=10000 PYTHONPATH=sdk/sutra-compiler python -m sutra_compiler --run examples/do_while_adder.su 2>&1 | tail -1)\n[ \"$got50\" = \"$got200\" ] || { echo \"FAIL: T=50 vs T=200 disagreed\"; exit 1; }\n[ \"$got50\" = \"$got10000\" ] || { echo \"FAIL: T=50 vs T=10000 disagreed\"; exit 1; }\necho \"OK: T-as-runtime-budget reproduces (got '$got50' across T in {50, 200, 10000})\"\n```\n\n## Empirical results from the paper\n\n### §3.1 — Rotation vs Hadamard capacity (LLM substrates)\n\n```bash\npython experiments/rotation_binding_capacity_llm.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: capacity LLM run\"; exit 1; }\npython -c \"\nimport json, sys\nd = json.load(open('experiments/rotation_binding_capacity_llm_results.json'))\nfor sub in d:\n    if 'error' in sub: sys.exit('FAIL: ' + sub['substrate'])\n    rot8 = sub['rotation']['8']['accuracy']\n    assert rot8 >= 0.95, f\\\"{sub['substrate']} rotation k=8 = {rot8}, expected >= 0.95\\\"\n    had2 = sub['hadamard']['2']['accuracy']\n    print(f\\\"{sub['substrate']}: rotation k=8 = {rot8:.1%}; hadamard k=2 = {had2:.1%}\\\")\nprint('OK: §3.1 capacity reproduces')\n\"\n```\n\nReproduces the three tables in §3.1 across `nomic-embed-text`,\n`all-minilm`, `mxbai-embed-large`. Expected: rotation accuracy\n≥95% at k=8 across all substrates; Hadamard collapses (e.g.\nmxbai 15% at k=2). Embeddings disk-cached on first run.\n\n### §3.1 — ESM-2 protein-LM substrate (substrate-agnostic claim)\n\n```bash\npython experiments/rotation_binding_capacity_bioinformatics.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: bio capacity run\"; exit 1; }\npython -c \"\nimport json\nd = json.load(open('experiments/rotation_binding_capacity_bioinformatics_results.json'))\nrot8 = d['rotation']['8']['accuracy']\nhad48 = d['hadamard']['48']['accuracy']\nassert rot8 >= 0.95, f'ESM-2 rotation k=8 = {rot8}, expected >= 0.95'\nassert had48 <= 0.10, f'ESM-2 hadamard k=48 = {had48}, expected <= 0.10'\nprint(f'OK: ESM-2 rot k=8 = {rot8:.1%}, had k=48 = {had48:.1%}')\n\"\n```\n\nReproduces the protein-LM row in §3.1 using\n`facebook/esm2_t6_8M_UR50D` (~30 MB download on first call).\n\n### §3.1.1 — Chained bind/unbind crosstalk\n\n```bash\npython experiments/crosstalk_chain.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: crosstalk run\"; exit 1; }\npython -c \"\nimport json\nd = json.load(open('experiments/crosstalk_chain_results.json'))\nfor sub in d:\n    raw1 = sub['raw']['1']['accuracy']\n    raw8 = sub['raw']['8']['accuracy']\n    assert raw1 == 1.0, f\\\"{sub['substrate']} chain=1 = {raw1}, expected 1.0\\\"\n    assert raw8 <= 0.05, f\\\"{sub['substrate']} chain=8 = {raw8}, expected <= 0.05\\\"\n    print(f\\\"{sub['substrate']}: chain=1 = {raw1:.1%}, chain=8 = {raw8:.1%}\\\")\nprint('OK: §3.1.1 crosstalk reproduces')\n\"\n```\n\nchain=1 reaches 100%, chain=8 falls to chance — this scopes the\n§3.1 capacity claim to single-cycle records.\n\n### §3.6 — End-to-end differentiable training (symbolic if-then rules)\n\nThe headline neuro-symbolic claim: **a symbolic Sutra program made\nof fuzzy if-then rules is end-to-end differentiable**, and standard\nPyTorch autograd trains the embeddings the rules evaluate against\n*without changing the rules themselves*. The symbolic structure is\nidentical at epoch 0 and at epoch 300 — only the prototype\nembeddings move.\n\n**What to build (replication spec):**\n\n1. Pick a frozen embedding model (the canonical implementation uses\n   `nomic-embed-text` at 768-d) and embed 992 words across 20\n   categories — animal, vehicle, food, color, clothing, weather,\n   emotion, tool, instrument, profession, body-part, plant,\n   furniture, building, country, sport, drink, metal, shape, fabric\n   (fifty per category, deduplicated where the same surface form\n   fits two categories).\n2. Initialize 20 **learnable** prototype tensors (one per category)\n   with `requires_grad=True`. Random init.\n3. Forward pass on the full 992-word batch, computing per-class\n   scores via Sutra's primitives composed as a fuzzy if-then rule:\n\n   ```\n   sim_i  = similarity(x, proto_i)              # cosine_similarity\n   rule_i = AND(sim_i,\n                AND_{j ≠ i} NOT(sim_j))         # K-1 nested ANDs of NOTs\n   ```\n\n   where `AND(a, b) = (a + b + ab − a² − b² + a²b²) / 2` is the\n   Lagrange-interpolated Kleene min, `NOT(x) = -x`, and the\n   AND-of-NOTs is left-folded across the K−1 other classes (so the\n   rule for K=20 nests nineteen ANDs deep). The rule reads\n   \"classify as *i* if similar to prototype *i* AND not similar to\n   any of the other K−1 classes.\"\n\n4. Full-batch cross-entropy loss over the twenty rule scores, Adam\n   optimizer (lr=0.005), train for 300 epochs.\n5. Save `accuracy_before`, `accuracy_after`, and per-prototype\n   `gradient_norms` to a JSON file.\n\n**Success criteria:**\n- `accuracy_after > accuracy_before` (random ~40% → trained ~100%)\n- Every prototype's gradient norm > 0 (gradient flows through every\n  Lagrange gate to every learnable parameter)\n- The symbolic program text is unchanged across training: only the\n  embeddings moved\n\n**Reference implementation + verification:**\n\n```bash\npython experiments/differentiable_training.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: differentiable training\"; exit 1; }\npython -c \"\nimport json\nd = json.load(open('experiments/differentiable_training_results.json'))\nassert d['accuracy_after'] > d['accuracy_before'], \\\n    f\\\"Training did not improve: {d['accuracy_before']} -> {d['accuracy_after']}\\\"\nassert all(g > 0 for g in d['gradient_norms'].values()), \\\n    f\\\"Gradient blocked: {d['gradient_norms']}\\\"\nprint(f\\\"Before: {d['accuracy_before']:.0%}, After: {d['accuracy_after']:.0%}\\\")\nprint(f\\\"Gradient norms: {d['gradient_norms']}\\\")\nprint('OK: §3.6 differentiable training reproduces')\n\"\n```\n\nReference numbers (K=20, 992 words): 4% → 95% accuracy\n(chance = 5%); convergence by epoch 50; final loss 1.15; all 20\nprototype gradient norms in the range 0.94–4.20 (range floor is\nthe gradient flow check — every prototype receives a nonzero\ngradient through the nineteen-AND-deep rule pipeline). The 5%\nresidual is honest semantic overlap (e.g. *salmon*/*scarf*) at\nthe optimizer plateau, not gradient pathology.\n\n### Multi-system neuro-symbolic comparison (optional, requires Docker)\n\nA 1-hop knowledge-graph query that Sutra, Scallop, DeepProbLog,\nand TorchHD can all express natively. The comparison is on the\n*intersection* of what each can do, not a single-number speedup.\nSutra encodes the KG as a single bundled vector; Scallop /\nDeepProbLog use Datalog/Prolog; TorchHD uses MAP-VSA.\n\n```bash\n# Build the multi-system image (Rust nightly + scallopy + DeepProbLog,\n# ~10-15 min first time; cached thereafter):\ndocker build -t sutra-neurosym -f experiments/scallop_compare/Dockerfile .\n\n# Run the side-by-side comparison:\ndocker run --rm -v \"$PWD:/work\" -w /work sutra-neurosym \\\n    python experiments/scallop_compare/run_compare.py\ntest $? -eq 0 || { echo \"FAIL: multi-system compare run\"; exit 1; }\npython -c \"\nimport json\nd = json.load(open('experiments/scallop_compare/results.json'))\nsystems = d['systems']\nfor name, r in systems.items():\n    if r is None or 'error' in (r or {}):\n        print(f'{name}: skipped/error')\n        continue\n    assert r['accuracy'] == 1.0, f'{name} accuracy {r[\\\"accuracy\\\"]}'\n    print(f'{name}: {r[\\\"per_query_us\\\"]:.1f} us/q at 100% accuracy')\nprint('OK: multi-system 1-hop KG comparison reproduces')\n\"\n```\n\nOutside the container, only Sutra and TorchHD run on the host;\nScallop and DeepProbLog skip gracefully. 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