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Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems in Continuous Time

Artificial Intelligence 2026-06-24 v1 Multiagent Systems

Abstract

The Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems (FCMS) architecture formalizes closed-loop coordination through four abstract operators, two of which - the agent update operator fif_i and the environmental update operator Ψ\Psi - are left axiomatically undefined in the original framework. To address this, fif_i is defined by Mechanism-Based Intelligence (MBI), where agents update locally through a decentralized price mechanism and economic principles, and Ψ\Psi 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 4β2<2ημγ24\beta^2 < 2\eta\mu\gamma^2. This generalizes both the discrete FCMS stability condition 4ηβ2<γ4\eta\beta^2 < \gamma and CMGP's physical bifurcation threshold αc=1/K\alpha_c = 1/K, confirming that memory dissipation must outpace feedback gain as a universal organizing principle. Numerical simulation with N=2N=2 agents and mean-field validation at N=106N=10^6 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