AUGMANITAI / NEOMANITAI — Explicitation Protocol and Factor-Graph-Based World Models: Complementary Positioning Working Paper (Restricted Snapshot v5, 2026-04-24)

Extended restricted snapshot (v5) of the AUGMANITAI / NEOMANITAI research bundle. Author: Andreas Ehstand, independent researcher, Starnberg, Germany. ORCID 0009-0006-3773-7796. Wikidata Q138634675. This version is a working paper. This version adds Paper G, which positions the Explicitation Protocol relative to two prominently discussed programmes in contemporary world-model research: the factor-graph-based formulation of sensing, estimation, and planning recently developed under the designation STAG (Dellaert 2026), and the energy-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture line pursued by LeCun and collaborators, most recently instantiated in LeWorldModel (Maes, Le Lidec, Scieur, LeCun, Balestriero 2026). Paper G — The Explicitation Protocol and Factor-Graph-Based World Models. 21 pages, ~8,966 words (incl. disclaimer). Develops a three-layer positioning of the world-model stack: architectural (Layer 1), learning-dynamics (Layer 2), and representational-vocabulary (Layer 3). STAG and JEPA operate at Layers 1–2; the Explicitation Protocol operates at Layer 3. The three programmes are structurally composable rather than competing. Six concrete points of complementarity are developed: named variables of state, factor types at the objective boundary, latent-dimension semantics in JEPA, compositional structure of hierarchical architectures, the cost module in LeCun's six-module framework, and transfer of learned content across systems. Five foreseeable objections are addressed directly. No priority claim over the Dellaert–LeCun factor-graph/energy-based correspondence is made. Central positioning, stated directly. Factor-graph-based architectures (STAG, STEAP) and energy-based joint-embedding architectures (JEPA, I-JEPA, V-JEPA, V-JEPA 2, LeWorldModel, H-JEPA) are architectural proposals. The Explicitation Protocol is a protocol proposal at a different layer. Architecture and protocol do not compete; they compose. The paper specifies precisely how and at which points. Status: Working Paper. This deposit is an interim research document. Its formulations, examples, and positioning arguments are provisional and subject to revision based on further empirical work, reviewer input, and community discourse. The paper documents a snapshot of ongoing research, not a finalised position. Methodological provenance. The underlying decomposition discipline originates in Leistungsfaktorenanalyse (performance-factor analysis) as practiced at ITF-tour and Bundesliga-level tennis coaching and has been transferred to representation-capable artificial systems under the wider research designation PERMANITAI. The existing empirical record consists of 5,524 ISO-aligned intensional definitions with 50,653 SKOS-compliant semantic relations across 274 specialist fields, produced over nine months. Relation to prior deposits in this series. Companion to the Technical Paper (10.5281/zenodo.19691489), Mathematical Foundations (10.5281/zenodo.19691491), public Concept statement (10.5281/zenodo.19691495), Explicitation Protocol v2 (10.5281/zenodo.19701316), Extended Series v3 with Papers A–C (10.5281/zenodo.19701432), and Complete Series v4 with Papers D–F (10.5281/zenodo.19701495). All prior files from v1 through v4 are retained in v5 unchanged. Access. Restricted. Requests are evaluated individually. Contact via the author's ORCID record. Legitimate research, review, or legal parties are welcome. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Record date: 24 April 2026. 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