arXiv AI By Haoxiang Zhang, Qixin Xu, Zhuofeng Li, Lei Zhang, Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Zhang, Julian McAuley

Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents -- Until It Doesn't: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism

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arXiv:2606. 00408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon search agents accumulate large amounts of retrieved content across many tool calls, making context-budget efficiency increasingly important.

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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