Shared Spatial Memory Through Predictive Coding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04235v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:12:46 GMT
• Title: Shared Spatial Memory Through Predictive Coding
• Abstract summary: We introduce a multi-agent predictive coding framework that formulates coordination as the minimization of mutual uncertainty among agents.<n>At the foundation of this framework lies a grid-cell-like metric as internal spatial coding for self-localization.<n>Agents gradually develop a bandwidth-efficient communication mechanism and specialized neural populations that encode partners' locations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sharing and reconstructing a consistent spatial memory is a critical challenge in multi-agent systems, where partial observability and limited bandwidth often lead to catastrophic failures in coordination. We introduce a multi-agent predictive coding framework that formulate coordination as the minimization of mutual uncertainty among agents. Instantiated as an information bottleneck objective, it prompts agents to learn not only who and what to communicate but also when. At the foundation of this framework lies a grid-cell-like metric as internal spatial coding for self-localization, emerging spontaneously from self-supervised motion prediction. Building upon this internal spatial code, agents gradually develop a bandwidth-efficient communication mechanism and specialized neural populations that encode partners' locations: an artificial analogue of hippocampal social place cells (SPCs). These social representations are further enacted by a hierarchical reinforcement learning policy that actively explores to reduce joint uncertainty. On the Memory-Maze benchmark, our approach shows exceptional resilience to bandwidth constraints: success degrades gracefully from 73.5% to 64.4% as bandwidth shrinks from 128 to 4 bits/step, whereas a full-broadcast baseline collapses from 67.6% to 28.6%. Our findings establish a theoretically principled and biologically plausible basis for how complex social representations emerge from a unified predictive drive, leading to social collective intelligence.

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