agent/papers/items/2026-2603-21564-toward-a-theory-of-hierarchical-memory-for-language-agents.md

Paper: Toward a Theory of Hierarchical Memory for Language Agents

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type: paper title: Toward a Theory of Hierarchical Memory for Language Agents authors: Yashar Talebirad, Ali Parsaee, Csongor Y. Szepesvari, Amirhossein Nadiri, Osmar Zaiane year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21564 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-03-23 updated_at: 2026-03-23 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• memory
• rag
• tool-use methods:

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• cs.IR
• cs.AI
• cs.IT
• cs.SI related_concepts:

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collection_score: 16 collection_queries: language-agent

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: language-agent
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, memory, rag, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.IT, cs.SI
• collection score: 16

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21564