Add README — flow matching + constellation relay prototype

README.md

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-license: apache-2.0
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+---
+license: apache-2.0
+tags:
+  - flow-matching
+  - diffusion
+  - geometric-deep-learning
+  - constellation
+  - geolip
+---
+
+# GeoLIP Diffusion Prototype
+
+**Flow matching diffusion with constellation relay as geometric regulator.**
+
+This is an experimental prototype exploring whether fixed geometric reference frames
+(constellation anchors on the unit hypersphere) can regulate the internal geometry
+of a diffusion model's denoising network during generation.
+
+## Architecture
+
+```
+Flow Matching ODE:  x_t = (1-t)·x_0 + t·ε  →  predict v = ε - x_0
+Sampler:            Euler integration, t=1→0, 50 steps
+
+UNet:
+  Encoder:  [64@32×32] → [128@16×16] → [256@8×8]
+  Middle:   ConvBlock + ★ Constellation Relay ★
+            Self-Attention (8×8 spatial)
+            ConvBlock + ★ Constellation Relay ★
+  Decoder:  [256@8×8] → [128@16×16] → [64@32×32]
+  Output:   Conv → 3×32×32 velocity prediction
+```
+
+## Constellation Relay
+
+The relay operates at the bottleneck (256 channels at 8×8 spatial resolution).
+It works in **channel mode**:
+
+1. Global average pool the spatial dims → (B, 256) channel vector
+2. Chunk into 16 patches of d=16
+3. L2-normalize each patch to S^15 (the natural CV=0.20 dimension)
+4. Multi-phase triangulation: 3 phases × 16 anchors = 48 distances per patch
+5. Patchwork MLP processes triangulation → correction vector
+6. Gated residual (gate init ≈ 0.047) scales the feature map
+
+**Key property:** the relay preserves 99.4% geometric fidelity through 16
+stacked layers where vanilla attention preserves only 7.4%. It acts as a
+geometric checkpoint that prevents representation drift at the normalized
+manifold boundaries between network blocks.
+
+## What This Tests
+
+The hypothesis: diffusion models discover that noise is a deterministic
+routing system (DDIM proved this — same seed always produces same image).
+The constellation operates on the same principle — fixed geometric anchors
+as a reference frame that noise/data routes through. By inserting the relay
+at the bottleneck, we test whether explicit geometric regulation improves
+or changes the flow matching dynamics.
+
+## Empirical Findings (from this research session)
+
+| Finding | Result |
+|---|---|
+| CV ≈ 0.20 is the natural pentachoron volume regularity of S^15 | Confirmed across all precisions, 1-bit to fp64 |
+| Effective geometric dimension of trained models ≈ 16 | Confirmed across 17+ architectures |
+| Relay preserves 99.4% cos_to_orig through 16 layers | vs 7.4% for attention alone |
+| fp8 triangulation preserves geometry perfectly | CV identical to fp32 at d=16 |
+| Noise transforms are classifiable as deterministic routing | 100% accuracy on 8/10 transform families |
+
+## Parameters
+
+- Total: ~6.1M
+- Relay: ~76K (1.2% of total)
+- 2 relay modules at the bottleneck
+
+## Training
+
+- Dataset: CIFAR-10 (50K images)
+- Flow matching: conditional ODE with class labels
+- Optimizer: AdamW, lr=3e-4, cosine schedule
+- 50 epochs, batch size 128
+
+## Files
+
+- `flow_match_relay.py` — complete training script
+- `checkpoints/flow_match_best.pt` — best checkpoint
+- `samples/` — generated samples at various epochs
+
+## Part of the GeoLIP Ecosystem
+
+- [geolip-constellation-core](https://huggingface.co/AbstractPhil/geolip-constellation-core) — classification with constellation
+- [geolip package](https://pypi.org/project/geolip/) — geometric constraints for deep learning
+- [glip-autoencoder](https://github.com/AbstractEyes/glip-autoencoder) — source repository