Mario MarcolongoMaking research sources traceable
Five merged contributions to source auditing, citation provenance and repository tooling; listed coauthor of the September 2026 Atlas paper draft.
A usable source trail
Formal mathematics still depends on knowing which source, version and statement a result refers to. My recent Atlas work makes bibliographic comparisons inspectable and references easier to follow. The public contribution record now contains five merged PRs, each with its own scope and review trail.
Source metadata and rights-evidence audit
PR #69, merged on 22 September 2026, adds a reproducible audit that compares catalogue entries with Crossref, arXiv and public-page metadata. It saves dated evidence and generates a report of differences, missing information and retrieval failures for human review. Bibliographic comparison is separate from registry validation; licence observations remain distinct from a rights determination. The PR records a 109-work snapshot and full local validation. Those are dated audit and validation results, not counts of research I personally formalized.
Missing locators and publication provenance
PR #70, merged on 28 September, adds 15 missing source locators and enriches selected references. It preserves the cited technical report where a later journal version also exists, with supplementary publication information. My work included verifying locators and statement correspondence for selected sources. Automated retrieval failures remain visible; they are not treated as proof of an incorrect citation.
Earlier repository contributions
PR #52 diagnosed and repaired a Bash 3.2 validation failure on macOS and improved migration checks. PR #54 added portable instruction adapters; PR #61 reorganized repository guidance into task-scoped policy files. These earlier contributions address tooling and repository instructions. Their public diffs describe the specific changes and validation limits.
Paper draft and affiliation
The September 2026 draft “The AI Safety Formalization Atlas: a machine-checked memory for AI safety mathematics” lists me as a coauthor alongside Mario Brčić, Luka Hobor, Mihael Kovač and Adrian Satja Kurdija. The author page supplied for this portfolio lists Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Espoo, Finland; Metropolia’s permission to use that affiliation is confirmed by me. The manuscript is a draft, with no public link supplied here. Publication and peer review are not claimed; the affiliation does not change my Open UAS, non-degree study status.
Individual contribution and project scope
The linked PRs establish my accepted work on source quality, provenance and tooling, with AI-assisted implementation. I do not attribute the Atlas’s library size, catalogue totals, formal proofs or mathematical findings to myself. The author page establishes draft coauthorship; a more specific manuscript-contribution statement will require the individual roles to be documented. Review the public diffs for the concrete scope of my work.
Claim provenance
Contributed merged PR #52: migration validation portability.
Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency.
Original evidenceContributed merged PR #54: portable repository instruction adapters.
Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency.
Original evidenceContributed merged PR #61: repository instruction organization.
Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency.
Original evidenceContributed merged PR #69: a human-reviewable source metadata and rights-evidence audit.
The audit compares metadata and preserves retrieval evidence for human review; it does not certify citations or reuse rights. Most added lines are generated reports and evidence, not handwritten tooling.
Original evidenceContributed merged PR #70: 15 missing source locators and clarified publication provenance.
Acceptance covers source traceability and bibliographic changes; no Lean theorem, proof or formalization-coverage change is claimed.
Original evidenceListed as a coauthor of the September 2026 draft “The AI Safety Formalization Atlas: a machine-checked memory for AI safety mathematics.”
Draft status; publication and peer review are not established. The supplied page lists Metropolia University of Applied Sciences as affiliation, with permission confirmed by the contributor. It does not establish employment or a degree. Individual manuscript contributions are not yet specified here.
Draft title and author page supplied by the contributor; no public manuscript link supplied.
Source review: 2026-09-30. This is a dated account; the linked sources may have changed.