---
license: other
license_name: ameforge-proprietary
license_link: LICENSE
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: question-answering
datasets:
- rajpurkar/squad
tags:
- continual-learning
- memory
- retrieval
- research-prototype
---

# Ananke v1

**A memory that learns by reading, with a learned reader.** Research prototype by **AMEFORGE**
(Ontario, Canada).

👉 **Try it:** [Ananke demo Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ameforge/ananke)

## What changed since v0

[Ananke v0](https://huggingface.co/AMFORGE/ananke-v0) found the right passages in its memory well,
but picked the short answer inside them with hand-written rules — its main weakness.

In v1:

- **The memory is unchanged.** It still reads text once, keeps learning, cites its sources and
  refuses on subjects it never read.
- **The short answer is chosen by a small learned reader**, a proprietary AMEFORGE architecture
  (not a pretrained language model). It looks only at the passages the memory retrieved.
- The reader was trained once, on a GPU, on SQuAD v1.1 questions. It runs on a CPU.
  Articles used for the demo memory were excluded from its training data.

## Evaluation (honest numbers)

All question sets were written and frozen **before** each evaluation and never used for training.
The final set (41 questions) was evaluated a single time.

| | Ananke v0 (rules) | Ananke v1 (learned reader) |
|---|---|---|
| Final frozen set (41 questions) | 14 | **16** |
| All frozen sets so far (323 questions) | 109 (34 %) | **119 (37 %)** |
| Refusal on never-read subjects (3) | 3 / 3 | 3 / 3 |

What this means:

- v1 is **slightly better** than v0, but the difference is **not statistically significant yet**
  (sign test, p ≈ 0.34). Each system answers some questions the other misses.
- The exact short answer is still wrong about **two times out of three**: the quoted passages
  matter more than the headline answer.
- When the memory retrieves the wrong passage, the reader cannot recover.

## Limitations

- **Not a chatbot or an LLM.** It does not reason, combine facts or write free text.
- It **believes what it reads**: wrong text in, wrong answer out.
- English works best. Lists ("which countries border…") are often incomplete.
- If a word of the question is known for an unrelated reason, it may answer from an unrelated
  passage instead of refusing. **Always read the quotes.**

## Intended use

Research and demonstration of learning by reading. A self-updating, citable memory over a document
collection. Not for medical, legal, financial or safety-critical decisions.

## Weights and code

The engine, the reader and the memory are proprietary to AMEFORGE and are not distributed;
the Space provides public access for testing.

## Data and attribution

- Reader training: [SQuAD v1.1](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) (Rajpurkar et al., 2016),
  CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Demo memory: English Wikipedia articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted passages are shown with their source.

## Contact

AMEFORGE — Mike Amega · [huggingface.co/AMFORGE](https://huggingface.co/AMFORGE)