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ResearchMay 28, 2026- 9 min read

Certified numerics: from interval enclosures to a Lean-checked obligation

Speed is necessary but not sufficient for scientific trust. Here is how Derivon attaches falsifiable, machine-checkable certificates to a computation.

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Dr. Amaya Rendón
Founder & Chief Scientist

A fast number you cannot trust is a liability in a scientific pipeline. Derivon runs the same derivative tower in three registers: differentiable (for training), rigorous (outward-rounded interval and Taylor-model arithmetic), and formal (a Mathlib-free Lean 4 kernel that re-checks a finite obligation).

Enclosures, not point estimates

The rigorous core returns intervals that provably contain the true value. A certified divergence or robustness margin comes back as [lo, hi], never a bare float. Every enclosure is validated to contain both a dense deterministic grid and a random sample of true values.

from omnibias.core.verified.information import kl_divergence_enclosure

iv = kl_divergence_enclosure(p, q)   # provably contains KL(p‖q)
print(iv.lo, iv.hi)                  # lo <= KL(p||q) <= hi, rigorously

Tamper-evident certificates

Results are sealed into a hash-stamped certificate format. An edited payload fails its own digest check, and an independent re-implementation ("the twin") regenerates the result with a different algorithm so a forged number fails replay.

The formal gate

For finite, rational obligations - a spectral ratio below one, a sign of an enclosed quantity, an error bound below a threshold - a bridge emits Lean that chains the kernel's proven soundness lemmas and runs lake build. The theorem_prover_verified flag is set only on a genuine kernel pass; it can never be forged by the certificate.

What this gives you is reproducible, falsifiable evidence with a precise, machine-checked statement of exactly what was verified - and an honest enumeration of what remains an open obligation.

Honest boundaries

We are deliberate about scope. The formal kernel discharges finite numerical inequalities; it does not formalize an analytic PDE theorem, and it never manufactures a grand claim. That honesty is a feature: it is what makes a certificate worth attaching to a regulated or safety-critical workflow.

#verification#interval-arithmetic#lean#trust
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Dr. Amaya Rendón
Founder & Chief Scientist

Numerical analyst focused on differentiable scientific computing and validated numerics. Built Derivon's closed-form derivative engine out of doctoral work on activation derivative towers.

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