cs.AIJun 24, 2026

Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems in Continuous Time

Authors: Stefano Grassi

Organizations: Bangkok University, Phahonyothin Rd, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand

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 ΨΨ - 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 ΨΨ 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<2ημγ24β^2 < 2ημγ^2. This generalizes both the discrete FCMS stability condition 4ηβ2<γ4ηβ^2 < γ and CMGP's physical bifurcation threshold αc=1/Kα_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.

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