IBM Research: How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
IBM Research introduces ALTK-Evolve-HMM, a method to evolve agent memory architectures using hidden Markov models. The approach automatically designs memory modules, improving performance on long-horizon tasks while reducing memory usage. The work is detailed in a Hugging Face blog post.
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