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AI systems & compute
Model bodies, tokenization, native training, quantization, and selective compute for efficient, plural intelligence.
Research program
Research you can follow by question.
The Hidden Canopy's public research connects AI systems and compute, governance, evaluation, mission assurance, and institutional research into one traceable program.
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Governance & RegOS
Attributable authority, evidence, human review, consequence-time revalidation, and the boundary between interpretation and action.
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Evaluation & mission assurance
Long-horizon, partial-information evaluation and physical trust research for systems that must remain legible as conditions change.
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Institutional & social research
Leadership, correctability, collaboration, hierarchy, and the social conditions that shape whether authority remains accountable.
Selected public writing
A short trail before the full index.
These pieces give the program context without asking a first-time visitor to sort every release at once. The complete model, dataset, and article records remain available below.
IDA Leaves Hopper
Porting the IDA native training engine from Hopper-class infrastructure to consumer Blackwell hardware.
Read on Hugging Face →Beyond the Model Checkpoint
Why durable AI systems need institutional governance beyond the model artifact itself.
Read on Hugging Face →The Discomfort of Leadership
Responsibility, correctability, and the distance between authority and consequence.
Community and Convergence: Identity, Threat, Power, and Reciprocal Belonging
51 pages · Written September 4, 2026 · Posted September 11, 2026
A mid-range theory of community as part of identity formation, with expansive, defensive, protective, procedural, and constitutive paths through difference and conflict.
Independent research by Gerron Burford, conducted in affiliation with The Hidden Canopy LLC. No external funding or competing interests are reported; SSRN license terms apply.
Research software and evidence
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Research systems are not interchangeable with papers, simulations, or benchmarks. The dedicated index names what each system investigates, what it actually does, and what evidence it does not yet support.
Adjacent writing
Attributed separately from the founder-authored corpus.
Public work by other Hidden Canopy team members is listed here, clearly attributed and kept apart from Gerron Burford's authored research record. Bryan Rousey's current public SSRN record is represented by four separately linked papers.
Nothing to Lose, Something to Become
An essay attributed to Bryan Rousey, Chief Marketing Officer, listed as adjacent writing rather than a Hidden Canopy publication or a Gerron Burford paper.
I'm Not Your Guy
A conceptual paper on identity-based surrender, external disqualification, reconstructed stakes, and preserving agency under uncertainty.
Before the Benchmark Is Complete
A conceptual framework for interpreting present performance through development, transfer, adaptation, resources, and responsible reasoning.
The Whiteboard After the Film
A conceptual paper on racialized record gaps, collective memory, credibility, and historical injustice.
Complete index
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Model releases and permanent research4 model records · 8 entries
Current model releases
IDA Edge
52.8M parameters · updated June 11, 2026
Local edge intelligence body. A compact paired body for local inference, governed memory, recurrent state, local attention, and cognitive routing.
Read the release overview →IDA AI
1,011.8M parameters · updated June 11, 2026
Larger interpretive intelligence body. A paired body for text generation and governed interpretive work inside the IDA family architecture.
Read the release overview →IDA MoE
Updated June 11, 2026
Mixture-of-experts research body. A release exploring personality council behavior, escalation reserve, governed memory, and cognitive routing.
Read the release overview →IDA Lattice BPE 32K
32K vocabulary · updated June 8, 2026
Tokenizer. The IDA lattice tokenizer supporting the family's causal-language-model training path.
View the tokenizer repository →Permanent research pages and publications
IDA Family
Roles, lineage, governed memory, dissent preservation, and the relationship between the public research bodies.
Read the family overview →IDA Edge, IDA AI, and IDA MoE
Open the individual pages for the compact edge, larger interpretive, and mixture-of-experts research bodies.
Read the release article →The Fallacy of “I'm Not Racist”
A paper on behavior, institutional effects, political alignment, hierarchy, neutrality, tokenism, and selective inclusion.
Read the publication overview →Collaborative Rivalry Needs Rules
How nations can compete without turning preventable catastrophe into a strategic advantage.
Read the publication overview →The Discomfort of Leadership
Responsibility, correctability, and the distance between authority and consequence.
Machiavelli: From the Battlefield to the Boardroom
An essay on strategic power, institutional intelligence, dissent, and adapting before failure makes revision unavoidable.
Read the preprint on SSRN →Community and Convergence
A 51-page paper on identity formation, threat, power, multiple forms of convergence, and reciprocal civic belonging.
Read the publication overview →Plymouth Rock Landed on US: The American Dream
A paper on historical memory, repair, and settlement in relation to the American dream.
Open World Harness
Controlled, long-horizon evaluation under partial information, with ground truth held by the evaluator.
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