arXiv AI By Prakhar Dixit, Sadia Kamal, Tim Oates

Honest Lying: Understanding Memory Confabulation in Reflexive Agents

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arXiv:2605. 29463v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reflexion-style agents rely on self-generated reflections as memory, implicitly assuming that agents can accurately diagnose their own failures.

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