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PolarMem: A Training-Free Polarized Latent Graph Memory for Verifiable Multimodal Agents

Artificial Intelligence 2026-02-03 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

As multimodal agents evolve from passive observers to long-horizon decision-makers, they require memory systems that provide not just information availability but logical verifiability. A fundamental limitation of current architectures is the epistemic asymmetry inherent in probabilistic vision-language models and dense associative memories: they conflate semantic affinity with factual existence and structurally fail to encode negative constraints. To this end, we introduce PolarMem, a training-free Polarized Latent Graph Memory designed to ground agent reasoning in verifiable evidence. PolarMem transforms fuzzy perceptual likelihoods into discrete logical constraints through non-parametric distributional partitioning. Furthermore, it employs a polarized graph topology with orthogonal inhibitory connections to explicitly store verified negation as a primary cognitive state. At inference time, we enforce a logic-dominant retrieval paradigm, suppressing hallucinatory patterns that violate negative constraints. Extensive evaluation across eight frozen Vision--Language Models and six benchmarks demonstrates that PolarMem functions as a robust cognitive system, establishing a foundation for verifiable multimodal agents. Our code is available at https://github.com/czs-ict/PolarMem.

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@article{arxiv.2602.00415,
  title  = {PolarMem: A Training-Free Polarized Latent Graph Memory for Verifiable Multimodal Agents},
  author = {Zhisheng Chen and Tingyu Wu and Zijie Zhou and Zhengwei Xie and Ziyan Weng and Yingwei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00415},
  year   = {2026}
}