arXiv AI By Cheng Fan, Junyi Zhou, Tingzhang Luo, RongJian Xu, Qiyanhui Lu, Mingjian Zhu, Hanting Chen, Jianyuan Guo

Reading is not Reasoning: Bridging the Agentic Policy Gap in Vision-Text Compression

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arXiv:2608. 08960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step language-model agents repeatedly process growing interaction histories, leading to substantial context costs.

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