Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems in Continuous Time
Abstract
The Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems (FCMS) architecture formalizes closed-loop coordination through four abstract operators, two of which - the agent update operator and the environmental update operator - are left axiomatically undefined in the original framework. To address this, is defined by Mechanism-Based Intelligence (MBI), where agents update locally through a decentralized price mechanism and economic principles, and is defined by the Coupled Memory Graph Process (CMGP), a non-Markovian framework where the environment is treated as a physical substrate that records and responds to trajectory history coherently without external forcing. The resulting continuous-time FCMS instantiation achieves Lyapunov global dissipativity governed by the computable threshold . This generalizes both the discrete FCMS stability condition and CMGP's physical bifurcation threshold , confirming that memory dissipation must outpace feedback gain as a universal organizing principle. Numerical simulation with agents and mean-field validation at confirm the stability threshold and the self-reinforcing coordination cascade that emerges when it is violated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.09714,
title = {Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems in Continuous Time},
author = {Stefano Grassi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.09714},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
19 pages, 4 figures. Extends arXiv:2603.11560 to continuous time. Code: github.com/stevefatz95/fcms-continuous