Interpreting at Write Time: A Policy Ablation for Multi-Goal Agent Memory

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.02897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long-running assistant cannot keep everything it has seen, so it summarises. Summarising is not neutral: what is kept is chosen against some notion of what the record is for, and that choice is made once, before anyone knows which of the user's standing goals will ask. Goals rarely disagree about what happened. They disagree about which parts of it were worth the space. Once the history is too long to re-read, the summary replaces the stream, and whatever it left out is gone. We ask what a memory should summarise for when it serves several standing goals at once. Three policies answer differently: summarise with no goal in view, write one summary covering every goal, or write one summary per goal and read them together. We compare them acro