arXiv AI

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

arXiv:2608. 11095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding READMEs like CLAUDE.

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 Machine Learning
Sep 10

Can an AI Assistant Really Forget? Auditable Deletion from Addressable Memory

This paper introduces a deletion interface for a pretrained language model, measuring how effectively deleted records are removed from the model’s memory. By retrofitting a support‑vector memory gate into the global attention layers of a frozen Gemma 3, the authors show that deletions can be performed without altering weights and that the resulting state is close to a reference state that never stored the record. Experiments on 4B‑parameter models demonstrate low perplexity impact and strong evidence that deleted content is hard to recover, while larger or smaller models fail to achieve the same guarantees.

By Vishwajith Ramesh
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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
Aug 25

Repo2Skill-Evo: Repository Skills Go Stale in Silence

arXiv:2608.21964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate over evolving software repositories, where success depends on repository-specific procedural kno...

By Chenyuan Duan, Ge Shi, Zineng Mao, Ge Zhang, Hao Liang, Yinzhu Piao, Yuchen Wu, Zhixin Yao, Kaiyu Huang, Wenhao Huang, Linzhuang Sun, Shen Yan, Wentao Zhang