agent/papers/items/2026-2607-17545-retain-or-consolidate-budget-dependent-operator-selection-for-language-agent-mem.md

Paper: Retain or Consolidate? Budget-Dependent Operator Selection for Language Agent Memory

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type: paper title: Retain or Consolidate? Budget-Dependent Operator Selection for Language Agent Memory authors: Qingcan Kang, Mingyang Liu, Shixiong Kai, Kaichao Liang, Zhentao Tang, Yuqi Cui, Tao Zhong, Mingxuan Yuan year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17545 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-27 published_at: 2026-07-20 updated_at: 2026-07-20 status: queued relevance: high topics:

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

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collection_score: 20 collection_queries: agent-memory, language-agent

One-line Takeaway

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

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-memory, language-agent
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, memory, rag, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.AI
• collection score: 20

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/2607.17545