FLM
Frozen language model coupled to the retained MaleCNS graph through a trained readout adapter. Language ability comes from the pretrained language model.
The connectome is used as fixed wiring. Activity is mapped straight to controls. Nothing changes over time.
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No evidence, no level.The project's own graph module states it models abstract rate dynamics and deliberately does not infer spikes, synaptic efficacy, dopamine or biological time from the anatomy.
https://github.com/nftechie/flm/blob/7251a8921db4f891c39bd75ee5ad827f7031a24b/flm/graph.py#L1-L6The per-token update is a single tanh of a sparse matrix product on an abstract state vector; there is no membrane equation, threshold or refractory period.
https://github.com/nftechie/flm/blob/7251a8921db4f891c39bd75ee5ad827f7031a24b/flm/graph.py#L80-L96Training runs AdamW over the adapter parameters only, and asserts afterwards that no backbone parameter carried a gradient; the connectome matrix is never an optimization target and is never written to.
https://github.com/nftechie/flm/blob/7251a8921db4f891c39bd75ee5ad827f7031a24b/scripts/train_conversation.py#L144-L163
The MaleCNS graph is loaded as a fixed normalized adjacency matrix and driven by a token embedding through an abstract rate recurrence, x = tanh(W @ (0.6*x + 0.4*input)). Not L1: there is no neuron model of any kind - no membrane voltage, threshold, time constant or refractory period appears anywhere in the source, and graph.py's own header states the model deliberately does not infer synaptic efficacy, spikes, dopamine or biological time from the anatomy. The only trained parameters are a 278,528-parameter adapter fitted with AdamW while the graph and the language backbone stay frozen, which is the classic trained-readout pattern. The README is unusually candid: it states that a parameter-matched direct-input control performed slightly better, so the fly topology is not shown to help.
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