Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

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Learn how to improve long-horizon agentic tasks with Memory-as-Action, a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions

advanced Published 9 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Formulate context management as a learnable policy action using MemAct
  2. Implement working memory management as a part of the agent's reasoning state
  3. Train the agent to curate context autonomously for long-horizon tasks
  4. Evaluate the performance of MemAct in mitigating attention dilution
  5. Apply MemAct to real-world applications such as dialogue systems or game playing
Who Needs to Know This

AI researchers and engineers working on long-horizon tasks can benefit from this framework to improve decision-making and mitigate attention dilution

Key Insight

💡 Treating working memory management as learnable policy actions can lead to better decision-making in long-horizon tasks

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Learn how to improve long-horizon agentic tasks with Memory-as-Action, a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions

Full Article

Title: Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

Abstract:
arXiv:2510.12635v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context Large Language Models, despite their expanded capacity, require careful working memory management to mitigate attention dilution during long-horizon tasks. Yet existing approaches rely on external mechanisms that lack awareness of the agent's reasoning state, leading to suboptimal decisions. We propose Memory-as-Action (MemAct), a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions. By formulating context ma
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