Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents

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An arXiv paper explores how long-horizon language agents increasingly rely on external memory as a frozen world model, highlighting the limitations of current memory systems typically judged only by task success or token cost.

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What this could mean

Agent system developers should research memory management mechanisms beyond simple success rates and cost evaluations to build more effective, long-term learning language agents.