# Signal Drop — Guardrails and Fix Pattern When multimodal sessions extend across long contexts, one or more modalities may **drop out entirely** or become invisible to the reasoning pipeline. This creates “blind layers” where text, image, or audio cues vanish mid-sequence, leading to broken reasoning or silent hallucination. --- ## Symptoms of Signal Drop - Model responds as if a modality was never provided. - Visual reference ignored after ~20–30 turns. - Audio transcript included but not grounded in reasoning. - Captions persist but semantic anchors drift apart. - Silent failure: no error is thrown, yet cross-modal grounding is gone. --- ## Open these first - Cross-modal stability: [Alignment Drift](./alignment-drift.md) - Long-context melt: [Entropy Collapse](../MemoryLongContext/entropy-collapse.md) - Boundary checks: [Boundary Fade](./boundary-fade.md) *(planned)* - Retrieval schema: [Cross-Modal Trace](./cross-modal-trace.md) - State fences: [Memory Coherence](../MemoryLongContext/memory-coherence.md) --- ## Fix in 60 seconds 1. **Detect silence** - Log presence/absence of `{text, visual, audio}` per turn. - If any modality = null for >2 steps, flag as drop. 2. **Inject continuity token** - Add `mod_keepalive` in the system schema to enforce recall of modality. - Force echo of modality presence in every reasoning header. 3. **Re-anchor references** - If image or audio missing, insert placeholder with `ΔS=skip` instead of null. - Prevent collapse by keeping λ_observe convergent. 4. **Stabilize joins** - Split by `{text | image | audio}` sections. - Clamp cross-joins with BBAM to stop runaway drift. --- ## Acceptance Targets - **Coverage**: ≥ 0.70 for all active modalities. - **ΔS(question, retrieved)** ≤ 0.45 even when one modality drops. - **λ_observe** remains convergent across three paraphrases. - **No silent modality loss** beyond two turns. --- ## Copy-paste prompt ```txt You are running TXTOS + WFGY Problem Map. Symptom: modality vanished (text, image, or audio). Task: detect, re-anchor, and restore multimodal stability. Protocol: 1. Log {text, visual, audio} presence each turn. 2. If any missing for >2 steps, insert placeholder `mod_keepalive`. 3. Require ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45 across modalities. 4. Use BBAM for variance clamp, BBCR bridge if joins collapse. 5. 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