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Autonomous AI agents operating in dynamic environments face a persistent challenge: acquiring new capabilities without erasing prior knowledge. We present Adaptive Memory Crystallization (AMC), a memory architecture for progressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Rajat Khanda , Mohammad Baqar Sambuddha Chakrabarti , Satyasaran Changdar

Large transformer models, trained on diverse datasets, have demonstrated impressive few-shot performance on previously unseen tasks without requiring parameter updates. This capability has also been explored in Reinforcement Learning (RL),…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Tao Jiang , Zichuan Lin , Lihe Li , Yi-Chen Li , Cong Guan , Lei Yuan , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu , Deheng Ye

Reinforcement learning (RL) has driven breakthroughs in AI, from game-play to scientific discovery and AI alignment. However, its broader applicability remains limited by challenges such as low data efficiency and poor generalizability.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xidong Yang , Wenhao Li , Junjie Sheng , Chuyun Shen , Yun Hua , Xiangfeng Wang

In continual learning (CL), an AI agent (e.g., autonomous vehicles or robotics) learns from non-stationary data streams under dynamic environments. For the practical deployment of such applications, it is important to guarantee robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad

AI agents have become increasingly adept at complex tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal understanding. However, building generalist systems requires moving beyond individual agents to collective inference -- a paradigm where…

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently been used to train multiple interacting agents in a centralised manner whilst keeping their execution decentralised. When the agents can only acquire partial observations and are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

We present a memory system for AI agents that treats stored information as continuous fields governed by partial differential equations rather than discrete entries in a database. The approach draws from classical field theory: memories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Subhadip Mitra

Despite advances in AI for contact centers, customer experience (CX) continues to suffer from high average handling time (AHT), low first-call resolution, and poor customer satisfaction (CSAT). A key driver is the cognitive load on agents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Garima Agrawal , Riccardo De Maria , Kiran Davuluri , Daniele Spera , Charlie Read , Cosimo Spera , Jack Garrett , Don Miller

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable agentic systems trained with reinforcement learning (RL) over multi-turn interaction trajectories, but practical deployment is bottlenecked by rapidly growing textual histories that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lang Feng , Fuchao Yang , Feng Chen , Xin Cheng , Haiyang Xu , Zhenglin Wan , Ming Yan , Bo An

Equipping agents with memory is essential for solving real-world long-horizon problems. However, most existing agent memory mechanisms rely on static and hand-crafted workflows. This limits the performance and generalization ability of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yupeng Huo , Yaxi Lu , Zhong Zhang , Haotian Chen , Yankai Lin

Memory serves as the pivotal nexus bridging past and future, providing both humans and AI systems with invaluable concepts and experience to navigate complex tasks. Recent research on autonomous agents has increasingly focused on designing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiafeng Liang , Hao Li , Chang Li , Jiaqi Zhou , Shixin Jiang , Zekun Wang , Changkai Ji , Zhihao Zhu , Runxuan Liu , Tao Ren , Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Xia Liang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

In many, if not every realistic sequential decision-making task, the decision-making agent is not able to model the full complexity of the world. The environment is often much larger and more complex than the agent, a setting also known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ruo Yu Tao , Adam White , Marlos C. Machado

Online continual learning aims to learn from a non-IID stream of data from a number of different tasks, where the learner is only allowed to consider data once. Methods are typically allowed to use a limited buffer to store some of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Kai Wang , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer

Attention mechanisms have become integral in AI, significantly enhancing model performance and scalability by drawing inspiration from human cognition. Concurrently, the Attention Schema Theory (AST) in cognitive science posits that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Krati Saxena , Federico Jurado Ruiz , Guido Manzi , Dianbo Liu , Alex Lamb

An agent that operates sequentially must incorporate new experience without forgetting old experience, under a fixed memory budget. We propose a framework in which memory is not a parameter vector but a stochastic process: a Bridge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Chertkov

Continual reinforcement learning challenges agents to acquire new skills while retaining previously learned ones with the goal of improving performance in both past and future tasks. Most existing approaches rely on model-free methods with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Abdulaziz Alyahya , Abdallah Al Siyabi , Markus R. Ernst , Luke Yang , Levin Kuhlmann , Gideon Kowadlo

Neuroscience data are highly fragmented across labs, formats, and experimental paradigms, and reuse often requires substantial manual effort. A persistent roadblock to data reuse and integration is the need to decipher bespoke and diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ling-Qi Zhang , Kristin Branson

Continual learning remains a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence, with catastrophic forgetting posing a significant barrier to deploying neural networks in dynamic environments. Inspired by biological memory consolidation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Goutham Nalagatla , Shreyas Grandhe

To tackle long-context reasoning tasks without the quadratic complexity of standard attention mechanisms, approaches based on agent memory have emerged, which typically maintain a dynamically updated memory when linearly processing document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Baibei Ji , Xiaoyang Weng , Juntao Li , Zecheng Tang , Yihang Lou , Min Zhang

As LLM-based agents are increasingly used in long-term interactions, cumulative memory is critical for enabling personalization and maintaining stylistic consistency. However, most existing systems adopt an ``all-or-nothing'' approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Muzhao Tian , Zisu Huang , Xiaohua Wang , Jingwen Xu , Zhengkang Guo , Qi Qian , Yuanzhe Shen , Kaitao Song , Jiakang Yuan , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng