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Jaehong Oh

χPreprint · 2025· Claims withdrawn

Advanced Topology-Preserving Neural Networks: An Extension of ONN/ORTSF Framework with Dynamic Structural Optimization

Jaehong Oh

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Historical abstract

This work presents the first comprehensive empirical investigation into the practical realization of performance bounds theoretically established by the Ontology Neural Network (ONN) and Ontological Real-Time Semantic Fabric (ORTSF) framework. While the original framework provided rigorous mathematical foundations for topology-preserving neural networks through projection-consensus systems, the empirical instantiation of these theoretical limits remained unexplored. We systematically identify parameter regimes that approach the theoretical optimality conditions — surgery decay rates δ = 0.0005, cycle thresholds θ = 8, and minimal connectivity k = 2 — and demonstrate that strategic configurations reach 99.75% of the predicted optimality (topology loss 0.0234 vs. baseline 9.23). The results provide empirical confirmation that ONN's projection-consensus operators and contextual-constraint mechanisms can be instantiated in practice, bridging the gap between mathematical formalism and computational implementation.

Update (2026-07-10). This 2025 preprint is retained as a manuscript of record. Its headline empirical figures — reaching 99.75% of "predicted optimality" (topology loss 0.0234 vs. baseline 9.23), and the transfer results (14.7% perplexity reduction, 2.3× faster convergence) — are not reproducible from the current authoritative research source (onn_ws/ONN) and are superseded by the programme's audit, which resolved the higher-order thesis to a scoped No-Go boundary. Read the numbers below as the original draft's claims, not established results; see the current ONN research status.

Overview

This manuscript was written as an empirical follow-up to the ONN + ORTSF framework paper. Taking the original framework's claimed performance bounds as its premise, it asked whether — and under what conditions — those bounds could be reached on a working machine. The later audit did not reproduce its reported results.

Claims as originally presented

  • The enhanced regime (𝓛_topo = 0.0792) was reported to reach 99.14% of the theoretically predicted optimum.
  • The advanced regime (𝓛_topo = 0.0234) was reported to reach 99.75%.
  • The manuscript claimed that minimal connectivity (k = 2) and extreme precision (surgery decay δ = 0.0005) outperformed denser, coarser configurations — inverting conventional neural-network design wisdom.
  • It also claimed transfer to transformer architectures (14.7% perplexity reduction) and graph neural networks (2.3× faster convergence on WikiText-103). These figures are withdrawn pending reproducible evidence.

Where it sits

Historically, the manuscript was positioned downstream of the ONN + ORTSF paper and upstream of a proposed production-grade ONN implementation. The audit no longer treats it as a validated bridge between those stages.

BibTeX· generated

@misc{oh2025advanced,
  title   = {Advanced Topology-Preserving Neural Networks: An Extension of ONN/ORTSF Framework with Dynamic Structural Optimization},
  author  = {Jaehong Oh},
  year    = {2025},
  url     = {https://jack0682.github.io/papers/advanced-onn-ortsf-extension/},
}