Quantum-Cognitive Reinforcement Learning via Penrose Objective Reduction

Understanding cyclist route choice: A hierarchical adversarial inverse reinforcement learning approach to behavioral profiling

AI-Enabled Performance-Based Procurement and Life-Cycle Maintenance of Highway Bridges: Integrating Single-Bid Risk Analytics and PPP Payment Optimization

Model-based life-cycle evaluation indicates that AI-optimized PPP contracts reduce bridges reaching emergency condition by 30%–40% over a 30-year horizon while lowering life-cycle costs by 8%–12% compared with rule-based policies, providing infrastructure agencies and private concessionaires with an integrated AI-driven life-cycle management platform.

A hybrid physics-aware multi-objective analog integrated circuit design framework with deep reinforcement learning

Extension-layer fine-tuning for transfer learning in multi-agent reinforcement learning-based HVAC control

Hierarchical multi-policy adversarial reinforcement learning

DIArc Foundational Note v0.1 — Minimum Claim Edition

Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has significantly increased the availability of information, analytical capability, and machine-assisted reasoning. However, greater access to information does not necessarily produce better decisions. In many organizational contexts, the emerging bottleneck is no longer information acquisition, but the human and organizational capacity to determine what information is sufficient, when analysis should stop, when a decision should be made, and how outcomes should improve future judgment. This Foundational Note introduces Decision Intelligence Architecture (DIArc) as an architectural framework for Human–AI collaborative decision systems. DIArc is based on a central proposition: in the AI era, competitive advantage increasingly depends not on maximizing information, but on maximizing the rate at which high-quality decisions generate learning and improve judgment, under explicit constraints on information consumption and decision cycles. The architecture is organized into four theoretical layers. First, the Capability Inversion Hypothesis describes a structural shift in which information, knowledge, and analysis become increasingly abundant while judgment, commitment, execution, and learning become comparatively scarce capabilities. Second, Identity-driven Information Consumption (IDIC) describes a decision failure mechanism in which continued information consumption may serve identity reinforcement rather than decision improvement. Third, the Decision Constraint Architecture, comprising Decision Information Budget (DIB) and Decision Cycle Budget (DCB), introduces explicit constraints on information consumption and analytical iteration. Fourth, High-quality Decision Velocity (HQDV) describes the performance objective of accelerating completed high-quality decision loops, while Judgment Evolution Rate (JER) represents the longer-term evolutionary objective of improving judgment through outcome-based learning. This note constitutes the initial public disclosure of the DIArc architecture and establishes its theoretical baseline for subsequent research and branch concepts.