arXiv Machine Learning

Memory Contagion: Cross-Temporal Propagation of Evaluator Bias via Agent Memory

arXiv:2606. 23195v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on memory systems to maintain long-term coherence.

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Doomed from the Start: Early Abort of LLM Agent Episodes via a Recall-Controlled Probe Cascade

Large language model (LLM) agents solving multi-step tasks frequently commit to trajectories that are doomed to fail, yet continue to consume substantial inference compute before the failure becomes observable. We show that failure is predictable early from the agent's internal representations: lightweight per-round probes on hidden activations anticipate eventual episode failure as early as the first interaction round, where scorers reading only the agent's observable behavior are barely better than chance.

arXiv AI
1d ago

Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval

The paper introduces Causal Memory Policy (CMP), a framework that identifies the utility of memories in memory‑augmented language models by intervening on retrieval rather than on storage. CMP reserves fixed context slots for memories sampled with known propensities and estimates utility using self‑normalized inverse propensity weighting, providing unbiased estimates and exact variance. Experiments show that CMP improves discrimination between required and non‑required memories and reveals that identified utility alone is insufficient for retention decisions across unseen queries.

By Arman Behnam, Binghui Wang