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USEFUL MEMORIES BECOME FAULTY WHEN CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED BY LLMS

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Agent updates don't always make memories more useful. They can actually make agents perform worse than the same model with no memory at all. The failure is in the rewrite step. Until agents can decide when and how to consolidate, the safest default is to keep episodic memory and abstract sparingly, or not at all.