Decision-Sufficient State Representations: Measuring and Reducing Write-Time Regret
Long tasks produce more history than an LLM agent can hold in its context, and more than it uses reliably even when the history fits. A growing line of work therefore has agents carry a short written state instead: at every step a writer rewrites the state, and a reader acts from the state alone. Steps stay cheap, but anything the writer drops is lost before later decisions reveal that they need…
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