arXiv AI
Jul 16

Memory as a Controlled Process: Learned Adaptive Memory Management for LLM Agents

arXiv:2607. 13591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external memory systems to accumulate experience across tasks.

By Eric Hanchen Jiang, Zhi Zhang, Yuchen Wu, Levina Li, Dong Liu, Xiao Liang, Rui Sun, Yubei Li, Edward Sun, Haozheng Luo, Zhaolu Kang, Aylin Caliskan, Kai-Wei Chang, Ying Nian Wu
arXiv AI
Oct 7

Understanding and Mitigating Inference-Time Overreliance Using Agentic Memory

The paper investigates how large language model agents can over-rely on agentic memory, a phenomenon where retrieved memories distort inference even when they are correctly stored and retrieved. It shows that memory is helpful when past experience fully transfers to the current task but becomes misleading under partial query-memory overlap, a pattern confirmed by controlled experiments. To address this, the authors propose MEMTRIM, a plug‑and‑play framework that indexes memory evidence at write time and limits its reuse at read time, thereby reducing over-reliance without retraining and preserving useful memory benefits across models and memory architectures.

By Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Nilesh Auradkar, Muchao Ye, Dazheng Zhang, Zhaohan Xi