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AGM: Achievement-Grounded Memory for Closed-Loop Agents with Frozen VLA Policies

Frozen vision-language-action (VLA) policies offer broad manipulation skills but execute open-loop action chunks without tracking task progress, so the agent cannot reliably decide whether to continue, retry, or terminate. External memory is a natural remedy, yet it can be harmful when attempted actions are treated as completed progress, turning local execution errors into persistent task-state…

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Your models agreed with each other. They were agreeing with themselves.

There is a small art project in our house that encodes a sentence as nothing but its word lengths. Each word becomes a run of some symbol, repeated once per letter; the symbol itself is chosen at…

  • Readings of same encoded message agreed more than chance would predict in first experiment.
  • Second experiment showed reversed agreement, highlighting deception by baselines.
  • Researchers emphasized importance of using correct competitor for accurate agreement measurement.

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