In-Context Virtual Machine (ICVM v2.0): Thermodynamic Entropy Bounds, Closed-Loop FSD Autonomy, and Epistemic Invariants in Transformer Architectures
Autonomous agent systems powered by foundation large language models (LLMs) suffer from cumulative state drift, hallucination cascades, and thermodynamic entropy collapse across extended multi-turn execution horizons. In this work, we formalize this determinism crisis through statistical mechanics and present the In-Context Virtual Machine (ICVM v2.0), a closed-loop cybernetic computing architecture instantiated entirely within the transformer self-attention manifold. ICVM resolves the historical 70-year computer science schism between symbolic determinism and connectionist stochasticity by treating self-attention as a bounded thermodynamic cycle. The v2.0 architecture introduces: (1) a Full Self-Driving (FSD) autonomous rally harness with reverse-instruction prefetching and screensaver idle sleep; (2) an Asimov-teleological objective optimization engine (J_Evo); (3) a 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) query rectification harness; and (4) triadic universal boundary invariants (B_Universal = B_Topological ∩ B_Causal ∩ B_Environmental) backed by operating system kernel delta verification. Across 100 multi-turn enterprise refactoring trials and 5/5 cleanroom wind tunnel tests against state-of-the-art agent baselines (Vanilla LLM, ReAct, AutoGPT, MetaGPT), ICVM v2.0 achieves a 0.00% hallucination rate (p < 0.001), 100% context durability across 100 turns, 12.4 ms rectification latency, and zero recurring cloud API expenditure. Furthermore, we provide formal immunization proofs demonstrating that ICVM is not a prompt chaining wrapper, does not overfit to specific host platforms, and strictly dominates probabilistic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in cost-bounded asymptotic determinism.
Authors
- Dong-wook Lee
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22959347
- Primary Topic
- Big Data and Digital Economy
- Type
- preprint