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This theoretical paper develops a mathematical framework for how artificial intelligence systems can optimally manage memory in changing environments by selectively deciding what information to retain, merge, or forget. The authors combine concepts from dynamical systems theory (Poincaré) and optimal decision-making (Bellman) to create a model that determines how AI agents should consolidate memories based on the costs of acquiring, storing, and using information versus the value of that information for future tasks. The framework provides exact calculations for finite models showing when forgetting outdated information improves learning efficiency.
Why it matters
This work addresses a fundamental challenge in AI systems that must adapt to changing environments: balancing memory retention against the need to update beliefs and forget obsolete information. The mathematical framework could improve the design of AI systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and adaptive control systems that operate in dynamic real-world conditions.
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Abstract: Memory consolidation determines both what a learner can do now and which changes remain implementable later. We develop a finite-model synthesis of operational state abstraction and optimal control under the stability-evidence-revision (SER) framework. “Poincar’e meets Bellman” names two complementary roles: qualitative dynamics identifies reusable action-response structure, and dynamic programming prices acquisition, retention, reuse, merging, and forgetting. Recurrence enters separately through the timing and value of future demands. We distinguish active quotient merging from historical information erasure, characterize exact repair by zero-error functional coding and causal migration, and derive a Bellman recursion over the joint law of hidden state and complete deployed memory. A first-return model yields an explicit retention rule. Conditional results show how factor sharing avoids enumerating combinations and how independent informative observations improve identification, while leaving some zero-error evidence budgets unchanged. Finite enumerations verify the coding and retention calculations. The synthesis gives an exact benchmark for specified finite models, without claiming universal recurrence, bounded-memory open-ended learning, or tractable global planning.