The paper reports on a series of experiments examining how different forms of directives—such as record pointers, criteria, or combinations—affect an agent’s choice of archived source records when it inherits six one-line memories. Across twelve registered studies involving 14,760 attempts on a single instrument lineage, the authors measured the impact of various directive formats on six direct-provider models, nine OpenRouter-served models, and several Claude and Opus 5 models, noting differences in performance metrics and replication outcomes. The results are purely descriptive, detailing the effects of exact edits on fixed panels with registered intervals and no claim of underlying mechanisms.
arXiv:2607. 16019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly retrieve from records that revise themselves: issue threads, encyclopedic histories, policy logs, and long conversations.
arXiv:2606. 25449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A language model's memory can be worse than having no memory at all.
A language model's memory can be worse than having no memory at all. Give a model a memory that kept a wrong conclusion but dropped the work behind it, and it emits that stale value as a confident answer; give the same model an empty memory and it abstains.
arXiv:2608. 04278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents increasingly work across sessions, but prose notes can preserve a conclusion without the program state that supported it.
arXiv:2608. 19564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior.
arXiv:2608. 07429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory enables language agents to reuse past facts, preferences, and task experience.
arXiv:2608.23001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated manuscript pipelines often regenerate an entire section to repair a local defect, allowing unrelated metrics and citations to change even whe...
arXiv:2608. 06953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent memory systems compress what they store, and compression is built to drop qualifiers, so a claim's epistemic standing tends not to survive being written to memory.
The paper investigates how agents that inherit consolidated memory can mistakenly rely on constraints that were once true but have since been superseded by newer records. By modeling supersession explicitly and limiting verification to two records, the study shows that native allocation often leads to stale-consistent decisions, while reallocating one verification slot to the critical provenance path markedly improves consistency. The results suggest that memory systems may need separate freshness or supersession signals beyond relevance to avoid such errors.
arXiv:2606. 17107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prefix caching reuses prefill only across an exactly shared prefix, so one changed field invalidates the entire downstream cache.
The paper introduces instruction duplication, a simple inference‑time control that repeats the procedural instruction without retraining or decoding changes. Across seven instruction‑tuned models and 16,800 scheduled generations, duplicating the instruction improves deterministic All‑8 diagnostic‑response success from 90.22% to 93.17% and reduces failures by 30.2%. In downstream Answer Engineering scenarios, duplication further boosts success rates, demonstrating its practical impact on systems that rely on the generated trajectory.
arXiv:2609.01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLM assistants must reason over multi-visit patient trajectories, yet whether the compact history representations used to scale them---retriev...