MatrixAI

MatrixAI is a language for AI, not for humans. Describe a model in a prompt, train it, audit every decision it makes, and deploy it where trust is not optional.

Models are not black boxes — they are auditable programs: explicit inputs, explicit transformations, explicit outputs, explicit audit trail. Every decision is traceable to a named node in the computation graph. That is the core value for critical environments: healthcare, finance, legal, industrial.

Website & Studio: matrixaistudio.org — browser-based model development environment, downloads, documentation and member resources.

Get started

pip install matrixai-core
matrixai --help

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What MatrixAI does

1. Describe — write a model in a natural-language prompt or in .mxai directly.
2. Generate — the system builds a verifiable computation graph and training contract.
3. Train — supervised training with versioned parameters, reproducible metrics and full trace.
4. Audit — every prediction is traceable; every action is signed and logged.
5. Deploy — serve over HTTP, export to ONNX/WASM, package as Docker, or register in the model registry.
6. Monitor — detect drift, trigger retraining, rollback automatically or manually.

Key features

• Prompt → model: matrixai prompt "..." generates a runnable .mxai program
• A data recipe you write yourself: synthetic data used to have no relationship between inputs and target (measured correlation 0.049 against a 0.098 chance threshold), so a model trained on it could not learn. A recipe — 1: debt > 60000 OR income < 20000 / DEFAULT: 0 / NOISE: 0.1 / BALANCE: 1=0.3 — is parsed and evaluated deterministically, with no LLM in the loop, works for continuous targets too (usage = 0.05*sqm + 1.2*people + 5), travels with the model and ships inside the exported bundle as data_recipe.txt
• The task comes from the question, not the verb: «predict which customers will churn» is a classification even though «predict» reads like regression. The inferred task reaches the pipeline and is stated in the trace, and the assumption is flagged only when it was a default — not when the prompt said it
• Typed prompt fields: declare feature types and ranges in the prompt itself (edad: Scalar en [18, 95], Integer[1, 10], Boolean, Categorical[...] → one-hot, ProbabilityMap[NO, SI] output) — honoured end-to-end by the generator, the LLM proposal, the synthetic data and the export metadata
• Model generation from real data: point at your own CSV instead of writing a prompt — schema inference (types, ranges, one-hot categoricals, temporal columns), target-column detection (classification or regression) and a trained model in one pass, with target normalization so regression targets in any scale (not just [0, 1]) actually converge
• External data providers: pluggable registry for pulling real datasets from third-party APIs instead of a manual CSV upload — license acceptance tracking and SSRF-hardened fetching (fixed host allowlist, redirect validation, DNS-rebinding protection). Ships an Open-Meteo provider (historical weather/marine data)
• Sequence & Transformer models: SEQUENCE inputs, BLOCK <name> TRANSFORMER (multi-head attention, feed-forward, layer norm, positional encoding) and a byte-level tokenizer for text classification — trained end-to-end on GPU (torch backend) and exported like any other network. See examples/transformer-classifier.mxai
• Auditable graph: computation graph with named nodes, explicit types and audit trail
• Supervised training: classification, risk scoring and regression with .mxtrain specs
• Large models (billions of parameters): binary .mxw weights format with tamper detection, pre-training resource estimator (VRAM/RAM/disk/time), torch/GPU end-to-end (train, evaluate, infer, resume) and streamed ONNX external-data export — validated with a 2.95B-parameter dense model on an A100
• Verifiable pipelines: a pipeline is a deterministic, fail-closed JSON policy that names the rule that fired, plus an engine that resolves every component by digest and verifies it before running it. What did not start is said, not silently skipped
• Decision receipts: every run leaves a DSSE-signed .mxreceipt whose assurance level (A0–A4) is deduced from what was actually checked, never declared. matrixai receipt inspect | verify | compare — and inspect verifies nothing and says so
• Reproducible packages: matrixai verify runs four stages and reports each one, and matrixai replay --compare-reference names the stages that differ instead of saying «something changed». It always states whether both runs used the same environment: matching inside one environment proves repeatability, not reproducibility. A run elsewhere returns INCOMPARABLE — it neither accuses nor approves for free
• A receipt for a model you did not train: matrixai attest model.onnx --data eval.csv runs someone else's ONNX model on your data and ties the number to the digests of both. What makes it worth something is what it refuses to claim — the receipt carries evidence.does_not_attest and provenance: external, and says that a copied model produces exactly the same receipt as your own. Its ceiling is A1, written in the receipt and not only in the docs
• Formats other tools already read: the DSSE envelope is spec-conformant, matrixai attest --in-toto emits an in-toto Statement, matrixai bom emits a CycloneDX 1.6 ML-BOM validated against the official schema and deterministic by construction (a BOM that changes on every run can be neither compared nor signed), and --sigstore signs with Sigstore — which does not raise the assurance level, because A0–A4 describe what was checked, not how strong the signature is
• CI verification as a GitHub Action: matrixai-verify (a composite action shipped in this repo, .github/actions/matrixai-verify/) runs matrixai verify against an exported package and fails the job with the verdict and the exact scopes that were not carried out — it never reports greener than verify itself, and require can only tighten which scopes are mandatory, never loosen them. matrixai-engines is installed only if the package's own manifest asks for it. Needs matrixai-core >= 1.8.0 — the first release that ships matrixai/ci/ — and says so out loud instead of crashing if an older version is pinned
• PROBAST+AI gaps alongside TRIPOD+AI: matrixai report --probast reports what an exported package supports for risk-of-bias and applicability review, what a person declared, and what's missing with the manifest field that would back it — same discipline as the existing --tripod report: it enumerates gaps, it does not score or rate risk of bias
• No arbitrary ceiling on CSV size for your own machine: the old fixed 50 MB / 50,000-row limit is gone for local and self-hosted use; a measured memory guard (empirically ×12 the CSV's byte size) refuses a file only when it is actually likely to exhaust RAM, and can be turned off. The shared matrixaistudio.org demo keeps the old hard limits, since there the machine isn't the uploader's own
• matrixai attest measures three more metrics: macro_f1, rmse and r2, in addition to accuracy/mae, computed by the same metrics registry as the rest of the package instead of a hand-rolled formula — and it now refuses a metric/output combination that doesn't match the model's task (e.g. asking for MAE against a classification output) instead of silently reporting a meaningless number
• TRIPOD+AI record: matrixai report <package> --tripod writes the checklist a clinical-prediction journal asks for, from what the package already captured — and enumerates every box it cannot fill instead of filling it
• Model registry: versioned, signed, verifiable — matrixai registry push/pull/verify, with interface types derived from the model itself, so composing two components is checked instead of assumed (what cannot be determined is published without types and shown as such: an invented type is worse than none)
• Real actions: .mxact contracts with HMAC-signed traces, dry-run and rollback
• Continual learning: .mxcontinual policies with drift detection and automatic versioning — accepting a suggestion creates a candidate, never a deployment; promoting stays a separate, human act
• HTTP server: /predict, /metrics (Prometheus), /execute-action, /feedback with API key auth
• ONNX / WASM export: edge deployment bundles and browser-ready WASM packages — for dense and composite networks (residual blocks, LayerNorm, embeddings, concat), with output equivalence validated against the reference forward pass
• Self-usable model bundles: the exported bundle ships model.onnx + predict.py + inference_spec.json — it predicts from raw human values (same normalization and one-hot encoding as training) with no MatrixAI installation, only onnxruntime
• Studio: browser-based model development environment — a separate product at matrixaistudio.org, built on this core

Quick example

# Create a project from a template
python -m matrixai init my-model --template classification

# Train
python -m matrixai train my-model/my-model.mxai \
  --training my-model/my-model.mxtrain \
  --output my-model/runs/v1

# Predict
python -m matrixai run my-model/my-model.mxai \
  --params my-model/runs/v1/params.best.json \
  --input my-model/input/sample.json

# Serve over HTTP
python -m matrixai serve my-model/my-model.mxai \
  --params my-model/runs/v1/params.best.json \
  --api-key my-secret
# → http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

Examples

Documentation

Install

pip install matrixai-core

With optional export dependencies (ONNX / WASM):

pip install "matrixai-core[export]"

With GPU training support (PyTorch):

pip install "matrixai-core[torch]"

All extras:

pip install "matrixai-core[export,torch,dev]"

From source:

git clone https://github.com/robertollweb/matrixAI.git
cd matrixAI
pip install -e .

Requirements: Python 3.10+ must be installed on your system (python.org/downloads).

Windows note: use python instead of python3 in all commands below.
If matrixai is not found after install, use python -m matrixai (or python3 -m matrixai on Linux/macOS).

Running MatrixAI

After installing, you can call MatrixAI in two equivalent ways:

# Option A — direct command (works when pip scripts directory is in PATH)
matrixai --help

# Option B — via Python module (always works, recommended on Windows)
python -m matrixai --help       # Windows
python3 -m matrixai --help      # Linux / macOS

LLM configuration (optional)

MatrixAI works without any LLM — it uses a built-in deterministic engine by default. To enable LLM-powered model generation, copy the example config and fill in your API key:

cp .env.example .env

Then edit .env and set your provider and key. Minimal example for OpenAI:

MATRIXAI_LLM_PROVIDER_NAME=openai
MATRIXAI_LLM_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini
MATRIXAI_LLM_API_KEY=sk-...your-key...

For Anthropic (Claude):

MATRIXAI_LLM_PROVIDER_NAME=anthropic
MATRIXAI_LLM_MODEL=claude-opus-4-8
MATRIXAI_LLM_API_KEY=sk-ant-...your-key...
MATRIXAI_LLM_MAX_TOKENS=4096

For Google Gemini or DeepSeek — see the full list of providers and example configs in .env.example.

Without a .env file (or with MATRIXAI_LLM_API_KEY empty), MatrixAI runs in deterministic mode: all features work except LLM-generated model suggestions.

Studio

MatrixAI Studio is a browser-based model development environment — generate models from prompts, train, evaluate and explore without writing code. It is distributed as a separate product built on this core.

→ matrixaistudio.org — downloads, documentation and member resources.

The core itself ships a local technical playground (prompt → runtime):

python -m matrixai playground --open
# → http://127.0.0.1:8765

Run the tests

python -m pytest tests/
# 7815 passed, 30 skipped

LLM integration (optional)

MatrixAI can use an external LLM to generate model proposals from prompts. Without configuration it falls back to the deterministic local mode.

# .env (ignored by git)
MATRIXAI_LLM_API_KEY=your-key
MATRIXAI_LLM_MODEL=external-model-id
MATRIXAI_LLM_ENDPOINT=https://provider.example/v1/chat/completions

Any chat-completions-compatible API can be used, including local model servers.

License

See LICENSE — AGPL v3. License verification: English · Español.
© Roberto Llamosas Conde — robertollweb/matrixAI