为智能系统设计记忆有效性维护机制,防止知识在环境变化时失效
Epistemic Memory: A Validity Layer for Self-Maintaining Intelligent Systems
- 引入认知记忆概念,动态跟踪知识适用性边界
- 实验证明显式认知追踪可提升环境变化下的系统鲁棒性
- 适合长期运行的自主智能体,如机器人、自动驾驶
AI记忆机制多关注信息保存,却忽视知识在何种条件下仍有效,导致智能体移动、传感器更换或遭遇新环境时出现语义坐标漂移。本文提出认知记忆作为有效性维护层,定义动态认知商——一种随交互历史与感知能力演变的假设等价结构。推导出成对不相容下界,表明固定语义表示在认知边界变化时必然产生误差。发现对称交叉认知商下的失效模式,即基于重叠的类别级迁移会脱离前状态信念,因此需保留类内假设来源。提出可观测信念记忆(OBM)架构,结合当前认知商、类别信念及类内来源,通过后验一致性更新。受控实验表明,显式认知追踪显著提升观测条件变化下的鲁棒性,尤其当类别对应关系不足时。结果提示自维持智能系统应不仅推理隐藏状态,还应推理表征本身的有效性演化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI memory mechanisms primarily focus on preserving information content, often neglecting the validity conditions under which knowledge remains applicable, leading to semantic coordinate drift when agents move, change sensors, or encounter novel environments. This paper proposes epistemic memory as a validity-maintenance layer that governs when stored knowledge remains applicable. We formalize the dynamic epistemic quotient, an observation-induced equivalence structure over hypotheses that evolves with an agent's interaction history and sensing capabilities. We derive a pairwise incompatibility lower bound showing that any fixed semantic representation must incur unavoidable error across changing epistemic boundaries. We further identify a failure mode under symmetric crossing quotients, where overlap-based class-level transport becomes independent of pre-transition belief, motivating preservation of within-class hypothesis provenance. We introduce Observable Belief Memory (OBM) as a constructive epistemic governance architecture, combining the current epistemic quotient, belief over quotient classes, and within-class provenance through a posterior-consistent update. Controlled experiments demonstrate that explicit epistemic tracking improves robustness under changing observation conditions, particularly when class-level correspondence becomes insufficient. These results suggest that self-maintaining intelligent systems may benefit from reasoning not only about hidden states, but also about the evolving validity of the representations through which those states become knowable.
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