arxivcs.AI2026-07-20
Retain or Consolidate? Budget-Dependent Operator Selection for Language Agent Memory
Qingcan Kang, Mingyang Liu, Shixiong Kai, Kaichao Liang, Zhentao Tang, Yuqi Cui, et al.
Language agents depend on memory across interactions. However, the limited context windows of large language models (LLMs) and their inference costs constrain how much memory can be used at once. Existing systems mainly follow two strategies: memory retention and memory consolida…