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Retrieval as Traversal: Value-Indexed Memory for Stateful Long-Context Agents
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers propose value-indexed memory for agents using persistent local traversal instead of global attention, separating memory content from address geometry.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building long-context agents that repeatedly solve similar retrieval problems and need efficient stateful memory management.
- Watch out
- Proof-of-concept tested only on simple MiniGrid task with fixed geometry. Learned geometry and repeated retrieval scenarios remain untested and unvalidated.
- agent
- retrieval
- long-context
- attention
- eval
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