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M25.4 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Decide what to retain and what to show the model now

You told the assistant about your peanut allergy on Monday. Why did it suggest satay on Friday? Find out where an agent's memories live and how they get lost.

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Lesson overview

You told the assistant about your peanut allergy on Monday. Why did it suggest satay on Friday? Find out where an agent's memories live and how they get lost.

What you’ll explore

  • Working context, persistent records, retrieved memories, and learned parameters are different storage mechanisms; retrieval and summarization must preserve relevance, provenance, and correction.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (Park et al., 2023)MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems (Packer et al., 2023)Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (Liu et al., 2023)ReAct
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