arXiv:2606. 29824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel as static solvers, transforming them into autonomous agents remains challenging.
By Chengfeng Zhao, Yuqiao Tan, Shizhu He, Yequan Wang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
arXiv:2606. 10532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory is essential for enabling large language model (LLM) agents to handle long-horizon reasoning tasks.
By Yunhan Jiang, Wenbin Duan, Shasha Guo, Liang Pang, Xiaoqian Sun, Huawei Shen
The article reports that large language models can predict and collaboratively modulate human memory search during a semantic fluency task. By tracking and forecasting participants’ semantic retrieval patterns, the models outperform other humans in following these mental trajectories. This suggests that AI can serve as a cognitive tool to extend human abilities in open‑ended conceptual exploration and creative ideation.
By Eric Lacosse, Mariana Duarte, Graham Todd, Peter M. Todd, Daniel C. McNamee
The study investigates how large language models (LLMs) can assist humans in semantic memory search tasks. By using the semantic fluency task (SFT), the researchers evaluate whether LLMs can follow and enhance human mental trajectories during generative semantic retrieval. Results show that an LLM’s ability to track and predict human memory trajectories in this task surpasses that of other humans.
By Eric Lacosse, Mariana Duarte, Graham Todd, Peter M. Todd, Daniel C. McNamee
While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel as static solvers, transforming them into autonomous agents remains challenging. This transition requires continuous environmental interaction, yet current agents lack the necessary persistent procedural memory.
arXiv:2608. 12377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brains and large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally different memory systems, but they can be compared through shared functional questions: where memory-related information is represented, how partial cues recover broader associations, how new information is written or updated, and how memory-related states can be perturbed.
By Morteza Salehjahromi, Shayan A. Zadegan, Amgad Muneer, Jia Wu
AgenticRag‑R1 is a reinforcement‑learning framework that integrates reasoning, retrieval, and memory through a stack and fine‑grained action space. It uses hierarchical action‑aware rewards and an information‑aware trajectory rejection strategy to support long‑horizon learning. Experiments on multi‑hop, open‑domain, and agentic reasoning benchmarks show that AgenticRag‑R1 outperforms strong baselines and produces robust, interpretable, memory‑aware reasoning behaviors.
By Xinke Jiang, Yue Fang, Zhibang Yang, Jiaran Gao, Zhixin Zhang, Tao Feng, Rihong Qiu, Wentao Zhang, Hongxin Ding, Ruizhe Zhang, Yongxin Xu, Yuheng Huang, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang
arXiv:2607. 01224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory expertise is a learned skill: knowing what to encode, when to retrieve, and how to organize knowledge--a capacity known in cognitive science as metamemory.
By Shengguang Wu, Hao Zhu, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Serena Yeung-Levy
The paper introduces NeuroCognition, a benchmark based on three neuropsychological tests—Raven's Progressive Matrices, Spatial Working Memory, and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test—to evaluate foundational cognitive abilities in large language models (LLMs). It finds that while LLMs excel on text tasks, their performance drops on image-based and more complex tasks, and they fail different parts of the same tasks compared to humans. NeuroCognition correlates with standard general-capability benchmarks yet measures distinct cognitive skills, highlighting where LLMs align with or diverge from human-like intelligence.
By Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Faeyza Rishad Ardi, Alice Oh
arXiv:2510. 13554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reasoning pattern of Large language models (LLMs) remains opaque, and reinforcement learning (RL) typically applies uniform credit across an entire generation, blurring the distinction between pivotal and routine steps.
By Yang Li, Zhichen Dong, Yuhan Sun, Weixun Wang, Shaopan Xiong, Yijia Luo, Jiashun Liu, Han Lu, Jiamang Wang, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng, Junchi Yan
arXiv:2602. 17229v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The black-box nature of Large Language Models necessitates novel evaluation frameworks that transcend surface-level performance metrics.
By Bianca Raimondi, Maurizio Gabbrielli
arXiv:2606. 10507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities as autonomous agents across a wide range of tasks, their performance often degrades in multi-turn long-horizon agentic tasks.
By Juncheng Diao, Zhicong Lu, Peiguang Li, Yongwei Zhou, Changyuan Tian, Qingbin Li, Rongxiang Weng, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai