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Does Your Agent's Memory Survive a Model Upgrade? A Controlled Study of Memory Portability
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Study shows agent memory formats handle model upgrades differently: fixed knowledge graphs survive reliably, while compressed notes lose accuracy unpredictably during model swaps.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers maintaining long-lived agents across model versions, especially those using RAG or natural-language memory compression.
- Watch out
- Study used only small open-weight models under 10 billion parameters; results may not generalize to larger proprietary models or different memory architectures.
- agent
- rag
- retrieval
- embedding
- long-context
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