arXiv AI

Agents Don't Just Agree, They Remember: Benchmarking Persistent Sycophancy in Stateful Personal Agents

arXiv:2607. 10526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stateful personal agents increasingly maintain long-term user profiles, episodic memories, and reusable skills.

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Jul 7

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
4d ago

Memory Is a Derivation: The Distributed-Evidence Paradox in Long-Term Agents

The paper introduces the Distributed‑Evidence Paradox, where long‑running LLM agents compress past interactions into persistent memories that may not be fully supported by the interaction history. It defines three key requirements—evidence scope, compositional validity, and admission reliability—and proposes DerivAudit, a framework that checks whether a memory is truly supported by the available history. Experiments on two memory corpora show that expanding the evidence base can recover support for many memories, yet many remain unsupported, and broader evidence alone does not guarantee reliable admission.

By Hongjun Liu, Chen Zhao