Before Welvet there was Loom: the exploratory engine where the hard ideas were first tried, measured, and written up. This is the archive of that work, deep-dive reports and AI-generated audio briefings that trace how a 3D volumetric experiment became the disciplined engine we ship today.
Loom proved the ideas; Welvet made them dependable. Same mission, sovereign AI on your own hardware, with the lessons of the research years baked in.
A fast-moving research engine (M-POLY-VTD): a 3D volumetric grid, 21 numeric types, target propagation, and a topological DNA engine. Big swings, published openly.
Loom's flat package hit honesty walls. Welvet is the clean rebuild: one feature per folder, tests kept out of the engine, and no silent fallbacks.
Today: 34 numeric types, three backends, and a public 228,054-cell proof run (227,194 OK · 0 FAIL). The research became something you can ship and verify.
Eleven release-era studies from the Loom lab. Listen in the browser or download the matching PDF. All files are hosted on files.openfluke.com.
Architectural exploration of 3D wafer stacking & hardware spatial layout: mapping Welvet's 3D volumetric XYZ step mesh directly to vertical wafer-to-wafer DRAM vaults, eliminating CGO FFI delays with Plan 9 assembly, and enforcing storage truth across 34 dtypes and sub-byte quants.
Welvet numeric demotion: when downcasting dtypes and shrinking models fails to buy wall-clock speed, and what the polymorphic numeric path actually costs on real hardware. Same Dense net across dtype, packed quant, and full weight×activation perm — measured size vs train time.
Weight-agnostic compression: dense matrices collapse to 64-bit layer seeds, with non-differentiable evolutionary search. Edge checkpoints measured in bytes, not megabytes.
Experimental acceleration: Plan 9 SIMD on ARM and x86 (no CGO or CUDA), Apple Metal zero-copy, and Qualcomm Hexagon NPU offload with the Drift Spectrum.
Live ingestion from PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and scikit-learn into portable .entity checkpoints, plus a three-way runtime compare against ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Core ML.
Per-layer NPU offload via OpenVINO, the small-tensor latency tax, 28x INT8 wins on large ops, and honest notes on when deterministic hardware still drifts from software.
Why Plan 9 assembly wins on fat matrices but inverts on volumetric grids, the WebGPU validation tax, and the pivot to load-time GPU graph compilation.
ENTITY native checkpoints, the Planet Bridging hub, and pure Go plus WebGPU: why importing a model is not the same as shipping a portable brain.
The flagship M-POLY-VTD deep dive: volumetric dispatch, 21 numeric types, target propagation, and side-by-side Go ML comparisons.
How Loom's operation mesh and release trajectory tightened the local-AI deployment story on consumer hardware.
Cache-aware tiling: why Apple Silicon plus Loom can outrun big discrete GPUs on the right workloads.
The research wasn't thrown away. Each Loom breakthrough has a home in the Welvet engine you can read about in the book.
Loom's 3D coordinate mesh lives on as Welvet's architecture package for volumetric models.
21 dtypes in Loom became 34 in Welvet's quant, from FP64 down to 1-bit.
Topological signature matching is now systems/dna, with 16,000+ cells verified by w2a.
The gradient-free training idea carries into the Welvet runtime training paths.
Weight-as-seed and evolutionary search became stub/seed and systems/evolution.
Pure-Go WebGPU acceleration is a first-class Welvet backend, tested on real GPUs.
A condensed view from the Loom deep-dive. The full analysis, with JAX and the Go ML ecosystem, is in the reports above.
| Dimension | Loom / Welvet | PyTorch |
|---|---|---|
| Execution | 3D volumetric mesh, spatial routing | 1D sequential / dynamic graph |
| Language | Pure Go, single native binary | Python + C++/CUDA |
| Quantization | Up to 34 types, FP64 to 1-bit | FP8/INT4/1-bit via TorchAO |
| Training | Backprop + native target propagation | Autograd only |
| GPU | WebGPU, cross-platform and browser | CUDA / ROCm / Metal |
| Footprint | Zero dependencies | Large runtime |
The Loom era is why Welvet exists. Read how every idea landed in the engine, or follow the build in the open.
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