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NISPS is a controller, not a synth: the object of study is the mapping
f: control-space -> parameter-space and how a musician's gestures deform
it. Loss measures fit to points the user dictated, which is the one thing
they never experience. So this measures geometry and gesture-response.
tests/cpp/ml_bench.cpp 61 scenarios, REPORTS never asserts (same
discipline as engine_bench.cpp). Shape-
agnostic via MLPCore<DynamicStorage>
(--shape, default 2,16,16,16,8), seeded
RNG throughout, branch points replayed
from scratch rather than snapshotted.
tests/cpp/test_ml_behaviour.cpp 20 asserting invariants, wired into
nisps_core_tests.
scripts/bench-ml.sh native + WASM from one source; --compare,
--sweep-shape, --smoke, --scenario, --seed.
Documents two contracts that fail SILENTLY (both now pinned by tests):
a thumbs-up must call BOTH mlp.add_example() and fb.store_positive(),
since dislike_geometric k-NNs the replay buffer and not the MLP dataset;
and placed_output() is valid only while state == Placing, after which an
empty span whose l2() is 0 scores a broken lifecycle as a perfect place.
ALIGNMENT defect 6 re-ranked (SGD-vs-RMSProp is not a research axis - it
silently invalidated every ported hyperparameter) and split into 6b (the
geometric dislike was ported from a superseded upstream design) and 6c
(InterfaceRL, the reference impl, is not in the tree).
Gates: build-cpp-tests (138 tests, ctest 4/4), parity-check PASS,
lint-cpp clean, bench-ml.sh --smoke runs end to end.
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Neural Interactive Shaping of Parameter Spaces
https://musicallyembodiedml.github.io/memlnaut/approaches/nisps
Firmware
The hardware firmware targets the MEMLNaut RP2350 build and uses repo-local helper scripts for the known-good build configuration:
git submodule update --init --recursive
scripts/build-firmware.sh
scripts/flash-firmware.sh
scripts/build-and-flash-firmware.sh
Notes:
- The scripts build for
rp2040:rp2040:solderparty_rp2350_stamp_xlwithOptimize3. - The build forces C++20 because the firmware uses
std::spanand concepts. build-firmware.shaccepts an optional variant name such asMEMLCeliumorBreakOr. Matching remains case-insensitive, somemlceliumstill works. If you omit it in an interactive shell, the script parsesMEMLNaut-NISPS.ino, prompts for a variant, and rewrites the activeMEMLNAUT_MODE_TYPEbefore building.flash-firmware.shaccepts an optional mountpoint argument, or auto-detects common UF2 bootloader mounts such as/run/media/$USER/RP2350and/run/media/$USER/RPI-RP2.
Manifold (browser app)
Try NISPS in your browser — no hardware required. Manifold is the React front-end running the same C++ engines + ML as the firmware, compiled to WASM:
cd manifold
bun install
bun run dev
Staging deployment: https://meml.lnfinitemonkeys.org/next/
Train a neural network to map input gestures to synth parameters through interactive machine learning: place examples, or use verdict-based feedback (explore-and-place, geometric dislike).
(The former SolidJS playground was retired in July 2026 — archived on branch
archive/playground-solidjs, tag playground-solidjs-final.)