arXiv:2510. 00615v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents in dynamic real-world environments, where success depends on maintaining precise records of actions and observations.
arXiv:2607. 23809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic tasks are inherently long-horizon and multi-turn, constantly accumulating context through interactions with the environment.
arXiv:2607. 20064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon tasks require sustained perception, reasoning, and exploration, and are a persistent challenge for large language model (LLM) agents.
arXiv:2606. 09659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length.
arXiv:2609.08318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition from human-centric assistance to Autonomous Software Engineering (ASE) agents has enabled the resolution of complex real-world SE task...
arXiv:2606. 31564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of agentic tasks has led to rapidly growing trajectory lengths, which poses significant challenges for large language model (LLM) based agents with fixed context windows.
Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length. Recent techniques to compress the KV cache fall short: they either degrade model quality substantially or require considerable time and compute to compress a single long prompt.
The paper introduces FOCUS, a training‑free framework that compresses the interaction history of large language model agents by preserving only the past interactions that causally influence future decisions. Unlike prior methods that learn compression policies offline, FOCUS operates entirely at test time, requiring no additional data collection or fine‑tuning and can be applied to any closed‑API model. Experiments on a variety of agentic benchmarks show that FOCUS reduces peak context length by up to 48% and dependency by 73%, while improving task success by up to 8.9 percentage points.
StateComp introduces a method for long‑horizon agents to decide when to compress historical interactions based on the current agent state, rather than relying on fixed windows or periodic schedules. The framework uses a two‑stage annotation process to create KEEP and READY labels, trains an imbalance‑aware router on frozen language model representations, and groups adjacent READY interactions into compact summaries. Experiments on WorkBuddyBench show that StateComp cuts agent and summarization tokens by 52.27% and speeds up representation extraction 12.67‑fold while preserving task performance.
The paper introduces Dynamic Tool Output Compression (DTOC), a framework that manages context in large‑language‑model agents by storing full tool outputs in external memory and inserting compact placeholders into the active context. DTOC treats context updates as explicit, reversible operations within the agent’s reasoning loop, allowing selective reconstruction of compressed outputs when needed. Experiments on the DeepSWE benchmark show that for responsive models such as Sonnet 4.6 and GPT‑5.4, DTOC reduces input tokens and agent steps while significantly improving solve rates and lowering cost per solved task, with ablation studies confirming the importance of reversibility for maintaining performance.
ContextPilot is a proactive context‑management framework designed to improve long‑horizon agentic reasoning with large language models. It expands the toolset to include planning, long‑term memory, and soft context offloading, and introduces a reinforcement‑learning strategy that focuses on critical editing decisions and assigns action‑level advantages. Experiments on long‑context QA and deep search tasks demonstrate that ContextPilot achieves stronger performance with a more compact working context, outperforming existing baselines across various base models and benchmarks.
arXiv:2608. 06503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent context compression controls context growth in long-horizon agents, but its behavioral effects remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2608. 16844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The quadratic cost of attention-based sequence models for long contexts has motivated a growing line of research on memory-based models that can compress context into a compact state.