REMORY: Learning Residual Memory for Context Compaction

Hanchen Xia, Baoyou Chen, Yutang Ge, Naihao Deng, Senqiao Yang, Zilong Dong, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu

arXiv:2610.11287 · 2026-10-11 공개 · arXiv · PDF

llm browsecomp long-horizon-agents qwen3-8-27b context-compaction soft-tokens residual-memory summhay

Abstract

Long-horizon agents compact their history to continue within a finite context window, but a textual summary alone may not support every subsequent decision. We introduce REMORY, a neural memory network that supplements the summary with a bounded sequence of soft memory tokens. Given the history and summary, the network learns to generate tokens that help a frozen LLM approximate the continuation it would produce with the full history. The tokens are conditioned on the summary and appended after it, forming an analogue of a residual connection along the sequence dimension. On SummHay, REMORY improves source attribution at nearly unchanged insight coverage and approaches the full-context joint score using only 5.2% of the input positions. Across long-horizon agent benchmarks, Qwen3.8-27B and GLM-5.3-Flash show consistent gains with residual memory. Both models also exhibit substantially fewer repeated tool outputs and tool errors on BrowseComp and Terminal-Bench 2.1.