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Taper
Multi-stage filter of increasing strictness: wide high-entropy input to narrow certain output
Definition
Mechanism
A multi-stage Sequence process that accepts wide-aperture, high-entropy inputs and progressively filters them through Gates or TriGates of increasing strictness. Each stage: (1) Applies a stage-specific acceptance threshold, acting as a functional DepthGovernor; (2) Reduces the candidate set to Compress the search space; (3) Increases certainty. Final stage outputs zero-entropy signal (deterministic, unambiguous). Failure modes are stage-appropriate: Early stages optimize for recall (don't lose valid signals), Late stages optimize for precision (don't pass garbage).
Invariants
- Monotonic Narrowing: |candidates[n+1]| <= |candidates[n]|
- Strictness Increase: threshold[n+1] > threshold[n]
- Terminal Certainty: final stage tolerance = 0
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Builds on
Composes with
References
Infrastructure
Lossy or lossless reduction
Mind
Entropy-based stopping condition for recursion
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference
Parameters
stagesInteger, [2, N]- Number of progressive refinement stages from broad to precise
early_biasEnum, {Recall, Balanced}- Search strategy in early stages (Recall = cast wide net)
late_biasEnum, {Precision, Balanced}- Search strategy in late stages (Precision = narrow to exact match)
Signature
Sequence(Gate)