State-space fading memory

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Autori principali: Bainier, Gustave, Chaillet, Antoine, Sepulchre, Rodolphe, Franci, Alessio
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Bainier, Gustave
Chaillet, Antoine
Sepulchre, Rodolphe
Franci, Alessio
author_facet Bainier, Gustave
Chaillet, Antoine
Sepulchre, Rodolphe
Franci, Alessio
contents The fading-memory (FM) property captures the progressive loss of influence of past inputs on a system's current output and has originally been formalized by Boyd and Chua in an operator-theoretic framework. Despite its importance for systems approximation, reservoir computing, and recurrent neural networks, its connection with state-space notions of nonlinear stability, especially incremental ones, remains understudied. This paper introduces a state-space definition of FM. In state-space, FM can be interpreted as an extension of incremental input-to-output stability ($δ$IOS) that explicitly incorporates a memory kernel upper-bounding the decay of past input differences. It is also closely related to Boyd and Chua's FM definition, with the sole difference of requiring uniform, instead of general, continuity of the memory functional with respect to an input-fading norm. We demonstrate that incremental input-to-state stability ($δ$ISS) implies FM semi-globally for time-invariant systems under an equibounded input assumption. Notably, Boyd and Chua's approximation theorems apply to $δ$ISS state-space models. As a closing application, we show that, under mild assumptions, the state-space model of current-driven memristors possess the FM property.
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Bainier, Gustave
Chaillet, Antoine
Sepulchre, Rodolphe
Franci, Alessio
Systems and Control
The fading-memory (FM) property captures the progressive loss of influence of past inputs on a system's current output and has originally been formalized by Boyd and Chua in an operator-theoretic framework. Despite its importance for systems approximation, reservoir computing, and recurrent neural networks, its connection with state-space notions of nonlinear stability, especially incremental ones, remains understudied. This paper introduces a state-space definition of FM. In state-space, FM can be interpreted as an extension of incremental input-to-output stability ($δ$IOS) that explicitly incorporates a memory kernel upper-bounding the decay of past input differences. It is also closely related to Boyd and Chua's FM definition, with the sole difference of requiring uniform, instead of general, continuity of the memory functional with respect to an input-fading norm. We demonstrate that incremental input-to-state stability ($δ$ISS) implies FM semi-globally for time-invariant systems under an equibounded input assumption. Notably, Boyd and Chua's approximation theorems apply to $δ$ISS state-space models. As a closing application, we show that, under mild assumptions, the state-space model of current-driven memristors possess the FM property.
title State-space fading memory
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23814