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Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

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Long-context Large Language Models, despite their expanded capacity, require careful working memory management to mitigate attention dilution during long-horizon tasks. Yet existing approaches rely on external mechanisms that lack awareness of the agent's reasoning state, leading to suboptimal decisions. We propose Memory-as-Action (MemAct), a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions. By formulating context management as in-place editing operations (deletion, insertion), MemAct enables joint optimization of information retention and task performance through end-to-end reinforcement learning. To address the computational challenges of dynamic context updates, we introduce Dynamic Context Policy Optimization, which restores training efficiency without compromising reasoning integrity. Experiments show that MemAct-RL-14B matches the accuracy of models $16\times$ larger while reducing average context length by 51\%, with learned strategies that adapt to model capabilities and generalize across task complexities.

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ECHO: Prune to act, trace to learn with selective turn memory in agentic RL

cs.LG · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ECHO is a selective turn-memory framework for agentic RL that compresses turns into indexed records, selects them for bounded contexts, and uses source indices to assign outcome credit to supporting evidence, reaching 43.4% accuracy on BrowseComp-Plus versus 28.9% for GRPO and 36.1% for SUPO.

ACE: Pluggable Adaptive Context Elasticizer across Agents

cs.AI · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ACE is a pluggable module that elastically orchestrates historical agent steps as raw, abstract, or dropped to maintain compact yet recoverable context for LLM agents handling long trajectories.

Organize then Retrieve: Hierarchical Memory Navigation for Efficient Agents

cs.AI · 2026-06-10 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

HORMA builds a hierarchical memory structure from agent experiences and trains a lightweight RL navigator to retrieve minimal sufficient context, yielding better task performance with at most 22.17% of baseline token usage on ALFWorld, LoCoMo, and LongMemEval.

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