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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extended interactions. Existing memory systems often store…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chuanrui Hu , Xingze Gao , Zuyi Zhou , Dannong Xu , Yi Bai , Xintong Li , Hui Zhang , Tong Li , Chong Zhang , Lidong Bing , Yafeng Deng

Sequential planning in large state space and action space quickly becomes intractable due to combinatorial explosion of the search space. Heuristic methods, like monte-carlo tree search, though effective for large state space, but struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Swarna Kamal Paul

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT o1, ChatGPT o3, and DeepSeek R1 have shown great potential in solving difficult problems. However, current LLM evaluation benchmarks are limited to one-step interactions. Some of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Huanyu Li , Zongyuan Li , Wei Huang , Xian Guo

LLM-based agents show strong potential for long-horizon reasoning, yet their context size is limited by deployment factors (e.g., memory, latency, and cost), yielding a constrained context budget. As interaction histories grow, this induces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yong Wu , YanZhao Zheng , TianZe Xu , ZhenTao Zhang , YuanQiang Yu , JiHuai Zhu , Chao Ma , BinBin Lin , BaoHua Dong , HangCheng Zhu , RuoHui Huang , Gang Yu

Large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive results on many benchmarks, yet their capacity for planning and stateful reasoning remains unclear. We study these abilities directly, without code execution or other tools, using the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Charles Schepanowski , Charles Ling

Large language model (LLM) agents often struggle in long-context interactions. As the agent accumulates more interaction history, context management approaches such as sliding window and prompt compression may omit earlier structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yating Wu , Yuhao Zhang , Sayan Ghosh , Sourya Basu , Anoop Deoras , Jun Huan , Gaurav Gupta

Although the capabilities of large language models have been increasingly tested on complex reasoning tasks, their long-horizon planning abilities have not yet been extensively investigated. In this work, we provide a systematic assessment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sebastiano Monti , Carlo Nicolini , Gianni Pellegrini , Jacopo Staiano , Bruno Lepri

Large Language Models (LLMs) are constrained by their inability to process lengthy inputs, resulting in the loss of critical historical information. To address this limitation, in this paper, we propose the Self-Controlled Memory (SCM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Bing Wang , Xinnian Liang , Jian Yang , Hui Huang , Shuangzhi Wu , Peihao Wu , Lu Lu , Zejun Ma , Zhoujun Li

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate in settings where a single context window is far too small to capture what has happened, what was learned, and what should not be repeated. Memory -- the ability to persist, organize,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pengfei Du

Complex reasoning in tool-augmented agent frameworks is inherently long-horizon, causing reasoning traces and transient tool artifacts to accumulate and strain the bounded working context of large language models. Without explicit memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongjin Qian , Zhao Cao , Zheng Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI research thanks to their powerful internal capabilities and knowledge. However, existing LLMs still fail to effectively incorporate the massive external knowledge when interacting with the…

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Current language model systems remain fundamentally stateless across sessions, limiting their ability to personalize interactions over time. While retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning improve knowledge access and domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Vineet Kotecha , Vansh Gupta

Recent large language models (LLMs) are promising for making decisions in grounded environments. However, LLMs frequently fail in complex decision-making tasks due to the misalignment between the pre-trained knowledge in LLMs and the actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Siqi Ouyang , Lei Li

Large Language Model (LLM) agents require persistent memory to maintain personalization, factual continuity, and long-horizon reasoning, yet standard context-window and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines degrade over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shu Wang , Edwin Yu , Oscar Love , Tom Zhang , Tom Wong , Steve Scargall , Charles Fan

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents necessitates the management of extensive, dynamic contexts. Current benchmarks, however, remain largely static, relying on passive retrieval tasks that fail to simulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shicheng Fang , Yuxin Wang , Xiaoran Liu , Jiahao Lu , Chuanyuan Tan , Xinchi Chen , Yining Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

Small Language Models (SLMs) are attractive for cost-sensitive and resource-limited settings due to their efficient, low-latency inference. However, they often struggle with complex, knowledge-intensive tasks that require structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shaoxiong Yang , Junting Li , Mengyuan Zhang , Chao Li , Wei Liu , Jian Luan

Large language model (LLM)-based agents exhibit strong step-by-step reasoning capabilities over short horizons, yet often fail to sustain coherent behavior over long planning horizons. We argue that this failure reflects a fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zehong Wang , Fang Wu , Hongru Wang , Xiangru Tang , Bolian Li , Zhenfei Yin , Yijun Ma , Yiyang Li , Weixiang Sun , Xiusi Chen , Yanfang Ye

Deploying Multimodal Large Language Models as the brain of embodied agents remains challenging, particularly under long-horizon observations and limited context budgets. Existing memory assisted methods often rely on textual summaries,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ji Li , Bo Wang , Jing Xia , Mingyi Li , Shiyan Hu

Large language models (LLMs), when guided by explicit textual plans, can perform reliable step-by-step reasoning during problem-solving. However, generating accurate and effective textual plans remains challenging due to LLM hallucinations…

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