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  1. Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval

    Oct 1, 2026Arman Behnam, Binghui WangLarge Language Model MemoryRetention

    Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL

  2. PG-SFT: Balancing Capability Acquisition and Retention in Offline Agent Fine-Tuning

    Oct 1, 2026Ronghua Li, Zi Liang, Zhishan Li +1Supervised FinetuningPrivileged Context

    The University of Hong Kong · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Independent Researcher

  3. Does Continual Imitation Learning Remain Grounded? A Language-Perturbed Benchmark for Robotic Task Retention

    Sep 30, 2026Siddeshwar Raghavan, Ziqin Yuan, Fengqing Zhu +1Robot PoliciesRetention

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. · Department of Computer and Information Technology,Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. · Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA.

  4. Finite-Horizon Fisher Memory in Two-Sided Power-Bounded Recurrent Systems

    Sep 30, 2026Jeonghoon LeeFisher Information MatrixRecurrent Model

    Attractor Dynamics Inc.

  5. Candidate Retention for Abductive Learning

    Sep 30, 2026Hao-Yuan He, Yu Liu, Ming LiProcess-Level SupervisionRetraining

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University

  6. Disentangling Self-Distillation: Measuring and Modeling Acquisition and Retention

    Sep 30, 2026Luis Zuin, Alexis Huet, Dario Rossi +1RetentionAcquisition

    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Paris, France

  7. What Should an Agent Remember? Disentangling Retention from Retrieval in Bounded-Memory Evaluation

    Sep 30, 2026Juli HuangRetentionBounded-Memory

    Stanford University

  8. Shared Phase and Retention Control for Efficient Adaptive Spectral Recurrence

    Sep 30, 2026Wentao Wang, Hengyu Zhong, Yunhan Jiang +2Frequency-Aware RegularizationSequence Modeling

    Peking University · GigaAI

  9. Learning Under Forgetting: Statistical Support-Selective Retention in Stochastic Training Dynamics

    Sep 30, 2026Fujie Gao, Zuyue Zhang, Gang SunDense Associative MemorySynaptic Plasticity

  10. "Nothing to See Here'': Unintended Disclosure through Revision Traces of LLM Deliverables

    Sep 28, 2026Yage Zhang, Yukun Jiang, Yang ZhangDisclosuresRetention

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  11. EOPSA: Efficient On-Policy Self-Distilled Safety Alignment

    Sep 28, 2026Qirui Liu, Yichen Sun, Yan Wang +5Safety AlignmentCollapse

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  12. Thinking Outside the Box: Retention and Transmission of Information in Sliding-Window KV Inference

    Sep 28, 2026Timothy DeLise, Seth CromelinCacheLarge Language Model Memory

  13. Mask-Induced Displacement in Audio XAI via Logit Trajectory Decomposition

    Sep 27, 2026Nico García-Peguinho, David Kelly, Fabrizio Smeraldi +1SpeakerXai

    School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London · Department of Informatics, King's College London · Department of Informatics, King’s College London

  14. SchemaMem: Schema-Indexed Recurrent Memory for Delayed State Retrieval

    Sep 27, 2026Sungwoo Goo, Hwi-yeol Yun, Sangkeun JungRecurrent ModelPersistent State

    College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  15. Risk-Controlled KV-Cache Eviction: From Memory Budgets to Risk Targets

    Sep 23, 2026Beomgu Kang, SoJin Yun, Hojoon Kim +1EvictionRetention

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Republic of Korea

  16. HYDRO: Towards Non-Reversible Face De-Identification Using a High-Fidelity Hybrid Diffusion and Target-Oriented Approach

    Sep 22, 2026Felix Rosberg, Vitomir Štruc, Cristofer Englund +2Blind Face RestorationFacial Images

  17. Reasoning-Preserving Fine-Tuning of Post-RL LLMs with Null-Basis LoRA

    Sep 22, 2026Wenzhi Fang, Nicholas Tzou, Lazar Valkov +1Model Fine-TuningPost-Training

    Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA, USA · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  18. LifeFuse-Mem: Lifecycle-Aware State Fusion Against Temporary Overwriting for Long-Term Memory

    Sep 14, 2026Hanyu Zhao, Yuqian Feng, Zhenyu Song +4Long-Term Agent MemoryLong-Term Memory

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  19. Beyond Endpoint Scores: Time- and Capacity-Conditioned Evaluation of Continual Knowledge Updating

    Sep 3, 2026Heejin ChoiRetention

    Yonsei University · Sooil Development · NCreate

  20. Measure Before You Manage: Evaluating Agent Working Memory in Coding Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Le Chen, Zishen Wan, Baixi Sun +6Working MemoryLong-Term Agent Memory

    Argonne National Laboratory · Columbia University · University of Houston

  21. Functional compatibility as a determinant of persistent neural learning

    Aug 23, 2026Hossein JavidniaPlasticityCompatibility

    School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland

  22. Sequential Modality Dropout for Robust Multi-Modal Sequential Recommendation

    Aug 10, 2026Guanqun Yang, Wenlong ZhangMultimodal Recommendation ModelModalities

    Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, USA

  23. Explicit, Not Longer: What Makes Epistemic Stance Survive Memory Compression

    Aug 7, 2026Alex KwonEpistemic AsymmetryRetention

    Independent Researcher

  24. Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies

    Aug 5, 2026Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Rushi Dai +3Closed LoopSuppression

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · AI2 Robotics · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  25. Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning

    Aug 4, 2026Alberto AcedoLarge Language Model Fine-TuningModel Fine-Tuning

    Biome Makers Inc.

  26. Distractor-Aware Truncation: Disentangling Context-Length Effects from Signal Loss in Long-Context LLM Benchmarks

    Aug 4, 2026Mohsen ArjmandiContext LengthLarge Language Model Memory

    evolutionID GmbH

  27. Scalable Frequency- and Length-Aware Subdocument Deduplication for Large Language Model Pretraining

    Aug 4, 2026Hai Wang, Chenhao Wang, Qifeng Cai +6RetentionLocality-Sensitive Hashing

    Hunyuan Team, Tencent

  28. LiveMem: Maintaining Memory State Continuity in Long-Running LLM Inference

    Aug 3, 2026Zhichen Liu, Ruihan Sun, Hengjie Yang +4Large Language Model MemoryPersistent State

    Southern University of Science and Technology · Xidian University

  29. Retrofitting Recurrent Depth into a Pretrained Language Model: Installation, Extrapolation, Transfer, and Retention at Two Parameter Budgets

    Jul 31, 2026Mark ShapiroLarge Language Model PretrainingRecurrent Model

  30. Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions

    Jul 30, 2026Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Akshara Prabhakar, Yu Li +2Artificial Intelligence CompanionsPeers

    Salesforce AI Research

  31. ForgetBench: Benchmarking Forgetting Dynamics of Long-Term Parametric Memory in Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Ruxi Gu, Zhenliang Zhang, Wei WangLarge Language Model MemoryCatastrophic Forgetting

    Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI, Beijing, China · School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.

  32. Addressable Recall Compaction for Long Context-Window Control in AI Agents

    Jul 27, 2026Thang Dang, Yuma Ichikawa, Sakina Fatima +1CompactionFactual Recall

    Fujitsu Research of America · Fujitsu Limited Japan · RIKEN Center for AIP

  33. Adaptive Data Admission and Retention for Streaming Federated Learning

    Jul 27, 2026Zhuoyi Zhao, Ben LiangFederated LearningLearning-Augmented Algorithms

    University of Toronto · Toronto, ON, Canada

  34. Naju: A Native Discrete State-Space Model with Independent Retention and Writing for Long-Sequence Memory

    Jul 23, 2026Hyuk Lim, Seunghyun YoonRecurrent StateLong-Term Memory

    Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH)

  35. Long-term User Engagement Optimization through Model-agnostic Downstream Rewards Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Dingsu Wang, Filip Ryzner, Kelly He +12AnalyticsReward Functions

    Pinterest San Francisco, CA, USA

  36. Interference and Retention in Continual Learning

    Jul 10, 2026Julius StörkCatastrophic ForgettingContinual Learning

    VARTA Microbattery GmbH, Ellwangen, Germany

  37. TILDE: TILt-based Distributional Erasure for Concept Unlearning

    Jul 7, 2026Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida +2Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsConcept Erasure

    Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Sony AI · Sony AI & Sony Group Corporation

  38. To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual Learning

    Jul 6, 2026Giulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, Doina Precup +2Replay-Based Continual LearningContinual Learning

    ETH AI Center, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich · Mila - Quebec AI Institute, School of Computer Science, McGill University · Mila - Quebec AI Institute +1

  39. Multi-Head Recurrent Memory Agents

    Jul 1, 2026Jiatong Li, Samuel Yeh, Sharon LiEfficient Long-Context InferenceRecurrent Model

    Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  40. Selective Memory Retention for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

    Jun 28, 2026Pranath ReddyRetentionTraces

    Independent Researcher, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

  41. DexCompose: Reusing Dexterous Policies for Multi-Task Manipulation with a Single Hand

    Jun 26, 2026Dihong Huang, Zhenyu Wei, Zhuxiu Xu +3Contact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationRobotic Manipulation Policies

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  42. SamatNext v0.2-B: An Exploratory Study of RMS-Normalized Hybrid Decoders for Curriculum Retention in Small Code Models

    Jun 20, 2026Samat ZharassovAutoregressive TransformersAsymmetric Grouped-Attention Variate Mixer

  43. SAGE: Retain-Aware Post-Hoc Sanitization of Final Unlearning Vector

    Jun 16, 2026Jingyuan Zhang, Yucheng Bai, Peixi Wen +6Exact UnlearningPost-Hoc

    Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  44. ReRAM-aware Model Finetuning addressing I-V Non-linearity and Retention Errors

    Jun 16, 2026Ching-Yi Lin, Shamik Kundu, Arnab Raha +1In-Memory ComputingNeural Network Inference

    University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA · Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

  45. Exploring a Layer-Wise Design Space for KV Cache Eviction

    Jun 13, 2026Chao Fei, Kaihua Liang, Hanzhi Hu +4Key-Value Cache CompressionKey-Value Cache

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Fudan University

  46. A Privacy-Preserving Framework Using Remote Data Science for Inter-Institutional Student Retention Prediction

    Jun 11, 2026John Fields, K M Sajjadul Islam, Ruchitha Thota +2Privacy-Preserving FrameworkPrivacy-Preserving Machine Learning

    Business Analytics Concordia University Wisconsin · Computer Science Marquette University · Computer Science Concordia University Wisconsin +1

  47. FreeBridge: Variational Schrödinger Bridges for Cellular Transition Dynamics

    Jun 9, 2026Xurui Wang, Qin Ren, Jun Ma +2Schrödinger BridgesBridge

    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA · University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada · University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

  48. Less Context, Better Agents: Efficient Context Engineering for Long-Horizon Tool-Using LLM Agents

    Jun 8, 2026Abhilasha Lodha, Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani, Abir Chakraborty +1Large Language Model Tool UseModel Context Protocol

    Microsoft

  49. EMBER: Efficient Memory via Budgeted Evidence Retention for Long-Horizon Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Yilong Li, Suman Banerjee, Tong CheRetentionPrecision Recall

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · NVIDIA Research

  50. Calibration Data Trade-offs Across Capability Dimensions: Why Multi-Source Mixing Matters for High-Sparsity LLM Pruning

    Jun 2, 2026Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu +5Retention

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  51. TGV-KV: Text-Grounded KV Eviction for Vision-Language Models

    Jun 2, 2026Jizhihui Liu, Ruizi Han, Miao Zhang +4Recent Vision-Language ModelsKey-Value Cache Eviction

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Peng Cheng Laboratory

  52. GRKV: Global Regression for Training-Free KV Cache Compression in Long-Context LLMs

    May 29, 2026Junjie Peng, You Wu, Haoyi Wu +4Key-Value Cache CompressionKey-Value Cache

    1Sun Yat-sen University · 2ShanghaiTech University · 3Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology

  53. Federated Learning by Utility-Constrained Stochastic Aggregation for Improving Rational Participation

    May 18, 2026M Yashwanth, Arunabh Singh, Ashok Nayak +2Federated LearningParticipation

    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · IIIT Hyderabad

  54. Minimal-Intervention KV Retention via Set-Conditioned Diversity

    May 14, 2026Libo Sun, Po-wei Harn, Peixiong He +1Key-Value Cache CompressionCache

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA · Department of Information Management National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  55. Early Data Exposure Improves Robustness to Subsequent Fine-Tuning

    May 12, 2026Lawrence Feng, Gaurav R. Ghosal, Jacob Mitchell Springer +2Model Fine-TuningRetention

    Carnegie Mellon University

  56. Reflection Anchors for Propagation-Aware Visual Retention in Long-Chain Multimodal Reasoning

    May 10, 2026Xuan Gong, Hanbo Huang, Hao Zheng +4Latent Visual ReasoningRetention

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Lanzhou University

  57. When Does Trimming Help Conformal Prediction? A Retained-Law Diagnostic under Calibration Contamination

    May 7, 2026Congye WangOnline Conformal PredictionFinite-Sample Certificates

    Newcastle University

  58. Toeplitz MLP Mixers are Low Complexity, Information-Rich Sequence Models

    Apr 24, 2026Benjamin L. Badger, Ethan RolandAsymmetric Grouped-Attention Variate MixerTransformer Architectures

    IBM · AE Studio

  59. Toward Cross-Lingual Quality Classifiers for Multilingual Pretraining Data Selection

    Apr 22, 2026Yassine Turki, Vinko Sabolčec, Bettina Messmer +1Multilingual Language ModelsCross-Lingual Consistency

    Machine Learning Optimization Lab Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

  60. Absorber LLM: Harnessing Causal Synchronization for Test-Time Training

    Apr 22, 2026Zhixin Zhang, Shabo Zhang, Chengcan Wu +2Efficient Long-Context InferenceLLM Inference Optimization

    1Peking University.