arXiv Machine Learning

How Many Bits Can an Adapter Write? Measuring the Capacity and Memorization of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607. 21351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A LoRA adapter is a few megabytes that almost everyone treats as a skill rather than a record of the data behind it.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

What to Keep, What to Forget: A Rate--Distortion View of Memory Compaction in LLMs and Agents

arXiv:2607. 08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models, and the agents built on them, spend an ever-growing share of their compute and memory on remembering: caching attention keys and values, carrying long prompts, maintaining recurrent state, and storing what happened in previous turns and sessions.

By Ashwin Gerard Colaco, Nada Lahjouji
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Learning What Not to Forget: Long-Horizon Agent Memory from a Few Kilobytes of Learning

The paper introduces LRE (Learned Relevance Eviction), a lightweight, CPU‑only, language‑model‑free scorer that learns which parts of an agent’s interaction history are task‑critical and preserves them verbatim. In experiments, LRE matches or surpasses baseline eviction policies on accuracy‑cost trade‑offs, recovers 93% of full‑history accuracy, reduces worst‑case prompt size by 52%, and outperforms dense and token‑pruning encoders in conversational memory while being 295–1569× smaller. The method also achieves superior budgeted answer quality on LoCoMo reading and can be trained annotation‑free, recovering 95% of supervised scorer performance.

By Nusrat Jahan Lia, Aritra Mazumder
arXiv AI
5d ago

Rare, Relevant, and Still Wrong: How Memory Fails LLM Group Decisions

The paper investigates how short memory representations of large‑language‑model (LLM) group discussions affect final decision quality. It introduces CrossProfile, a benchmark of 480 hidden‑profile tasks that separates supporting, decoy, and irrelevant facts while keeping their wording constant. Experiments with Qwen2.5‑7B, Llama‑3.1‑8B, and DeepSeek models show that heuristics based on rarity or relevance both fail in predictable ways, and that the decision model’s social‑proof bias further degrades accuracy. Removing attribution tags or randomizing them improves performance, yet natural transcripts still lose more evidence than no notes at all.

By Anouar Imel, Imad Charradi, Abderrahman Sghir, Khalil El Khammar