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Decision Context: Persistent Behavioral Learning for AI Agents

arXiv:2611.08644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents do not learn from corrections across sessions. A user fixes the same mistake at the start of every conversation. Existing agent memory systems primarily handle facts, such as preferences, entities, and conversational history, rather than procedural knowledge. We present Forge Decision Context (forge_dc), a system that captures behavioral signals from human corrections and self-assessed tool-call failures, compiles them into imperative RULE directives, and injects them at the decision points where they apply. We evaluate forge_dc alongside four predecessor approaches on DC-Bench, a new benchmark of 71 scenarios across nine behavioral dimensions, built from real executed agent traces in a deterministic mocked-tool environment. forge_dc reaches 95% compliance, up from 55% with naive retrieval, while injecting approximately 10 times fewer tokens per query. Across the five-stage progression, the strongest systems represent behavioral memory as explicit directives and deliver it at the decision points where it applies. The results identify representation, activation, and placement as central design choices for persistent behavioral learning.

Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together

HOPE, a second-order expert pruning method for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, accounts for pairwise expert interactions by optimizing a quadratic program based on an interaction matrix derived from calibration data. Unlike first-order methods that prune experts independently, HOPE preserves cooperative expert groups, leading to better performance—especially at high pruning rates like 50%. On benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro, HOPE outperforms state-of-the-art first-order methods like REAP by up to +6.1%, maintaining model quality while significantly reducing memory footprint. The method requires only a single calibration pass and efficient quadratic programming, with negligible overhead. It has been validated on Qwen3.5 and GLM-4.5 models, showing consistent improvements across diverse tasks and calibration sets.

New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation

NVIDIA has introduced four new open-weight checkpoints for its Cosmos 3 model family—Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer, and Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Bimanual—enabling interactive world simulation and multi-sensor, multi-view driving scene generation. Each model is a post-trained variant of Cosmos 3 Nano with 16B trainable parameters and is based on OpenMDW1.1, allowing commercial and non-commercial use. The checkpoints support applications in robotics and autonomous driving by generating synchronized camera and LiDAR data, enabling streaming simulations, translating simulator controls into photorealistic video, and predicting visual outcomes from robot actions. They are designed to be adapted using custom data and training recipes, with support for offline data generation, causal distillation, and interactive rollouts. Resources include technical reports, demos, and notebooks for inference and adaptation.

NUMA-Torch: Compiler-Driven NUMA-Aware LLM Prefill on Multi-Socket CPUs

arXiv:2611.07105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For sufficiently large transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs), whose parameters cannot be retained in on-chip caches, prefill throughput on multi-socket CPUs is often limited by sustainable DRAM bandwidth rather than peak floating-point throughput. In the standard PyTorch compilation (i.e., TorchInductor) path, model weights are allocated without considering the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) topology: specifically, the affinity between memory banks and compute cores is disregarded. This causes a substantial fraction of weight accesses to traverse the inter-socket interconnect, severely degrading the effective memory bandwidth available to each socket. We address this bottleneck through a compiler-level solution that makes TorchInductor NUMA-aware. Treating each NUMA socket as an independent tensor-parallel partition, we introduce NUMA-aware Tensor Parallelism (NUMA-TP). This approach transparently shards weights across sockets and schedules compute kernels such that thread pools and memory allocations remain strictly local to their respective sockets using CPU affinity. We evaluate the approach on GPT-2 (117M, 345M, 762M) and BERT (Small, Large), which exercise standard multi-head attention and MLP, as well as Gemma 3 270M, which combines Multi-Query Attention with a GeGLU-gated MLP. By strictly enforcing data locality, our approach successfully mitigates cross-socket traffic, achieving prefill speedups of up to 2.63x on a dual-socket Haswell platform, up to 1.87x on a dual-socket Cascade Lake platform, and up to 2.27x on a four-socket Haswell-EX platform.

A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.

Phonon, a small text-to-speech model that runs entirely on the user's device without requiring internet access, has been released with support for English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Built on the Pocket TTS lineage using flow matching, Phonon achieves high-quality audio in compact sizes (65 MB and 75 MB), with the 31m version licensed under Apache 2.0 for commercial use. It excels in intelligibility and speed, ranking first in German and Spanish on Hugging Face's Open TTS Leaderboard and leading in CPU streaming benchmarks. The model supports voice cloning, custom voices via Gradium Studio, and integrates with Hugging Face Transformers. It is available in multiple formats and backends, including WebAssembly, GPU, and NPU, enabling deployment across phones, laptops, single-board computers, and browsers. Over 200,000 downloads were recorded in its first two weeks, with active developer adoption through tools like ExecuTorch, Micdrop, and Spaces. Future developments include support for additional languages, smaller models, and custom vocabulary fine-tuning.

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

Prospective Memory for Proactive LLM Agents

arXiv:2611.05731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most memory systems for LLM agents are retrospective, preserving and retrieving past information to inform current decisions. Proactive agents, however, also require prospective memory: retaining future-directed intentions and realizing them when appropriate opportunities arise, even without explicit requests. Crucially, remembering the right intention does not guarantee acting at the right time: a related observation may call for waiting, while a later cue may make the same intention actionable. Inspired by cognitive theories of human prospective memory, we introduce Pro-Memory, a memory framework that separates maintaining future intentions from deciding when and how to realize them. Pro-Memory preserves pending objectives linked to their supporting evidence, assesses new observations against their original goals and activation conditions, and coordinates appropriate contributions with the agent's ongoing actions. It further updates intention states based on actions actually issued or evidence of resolution, while an experience memory distills feedback from completed episodes into guidance for future decisions. Experiments on two benchmarks spanning delayed-intention tasks and open-ended proactive assistance demonstrate consistent improvements in proactive task performance over representative memory approaches across multiple LLM backbones, while limiting unnecessary interventions.

SRRM: A Retrieval-Reconstruction Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Memory in Small Language Models

arXiv:2611.05386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small Language Models (SLMs) are increasingly deployed on consumer-grade hardware, yet their ability to preserve information across progressively longer contexts remains insufficiently understood. Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate retrieval-oriented tasks, providing limited insight into whether successful retrieval reflects comprehensive long-context memory preservation. To address this limitation, this paper introduces Simple Retrieval-Reconstruction Memory (SRRM), a lightweight and fully reproducible benchmark that jointly evaluates Targeted Retrieval and Global Information Reconstruction. This study also proposes the Memory Preservation Ratio (MPR), a benchmark-level metric that quantifies the relationship between retrieval and reconstruction performance. SRRM was evaluated using a synthetic dataset on three Qwen2.5 models (0.5B, 1.5B, and 3B parameters) across context loads ranging from 10 to 100 factual statements. Experimental results show that reconstruction performance deteriorated substantially faster than retrieval accuracy as contextual information increased, indicating that retrieval alone is insufficient to characterize long-context memory preservation. Among the evaluated models, Qwen2.5-1.5B achieved the highest retrieval accuracy (86.7%), reconstruction performance (45.7%), and MPR (0.53), outperforming the larger Qwen2.5-3B model (72.2%, 18.5%, and 0.26, respectively). These findings demonstrate that increasing parameter count does not necessarily improve long-context memory preservation. Overall, SRRM provides a reproducible and extensible benchmark for systematically evaluating long-context memory while revealing complementary memory behaviors that remain hidden under retrieval-only evaluation frameworks.

A thousand fewer paths to root

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

Benchmarking Task Takeover Across Agent Handoffs

arXiv:2610.36523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agents collaborate on longer tasks, responsibility may pass between models before the work is complete. The receiving model must build on prior decisions, observations, and actions while addressing the remaining requirements. Evaluating this transition requires connecting the information preserved at handoff to how the receiver continues the work, a relationship that task-success and memory-retention scores alone do not capture. We introduce the Handoff State Continuity Benchmark (HSC-Bench), comprising 1,039 tasks that evaluate two complementary aspects of task takeover: recovering relevant repository evidence and continuing from established conversational, tool, and file-work state. Comparisons across six receiving models show that struc

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SLICE-Mem: Salience-Gated Lightweight Information Curation for Efficient LLM Agent Memory

arXiv:2610.33015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to maintain personalized and temporally coherent interactions, but repeated LLM inference for memory admission, extraction, and organization introduces substantial cost and latency. We present SLICE-Mem, a lightweight memory framework that combines salience-guided admission and predicate-centered information extraction. A compact classifier identifies user turns worth retaining, and a semantic-dependency-based extractor converts admitted turns into concise memory entries. This online pipeline requires no generative LLM calls, while cross-entry reconciliation is deferred to an offline consolidation stage. We evaluate SLICE-Mem on the weekly subset of Memora and LongMemEval-S using 8B a

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