Cognitive Extensions for Dual-Process Language Agents: Memory and Self-Reflection in Interactive Environments

📅 2026-09-16
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研究通过引入自适应记忆模块和自我反思模块,增强双进程语言代理在交互环境中的表现,提高其成功率和效率。
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Language agents remain brittle in interactive environments, where success requires long-horizon state tracking, valid action execution, and recovery from failed steps. We extend SwiftSage, a dual-process agent that combines a fast action proposer with a slower planner, using two modular cognitive extensions: an Adaptive Memory Module (AMM) for salience-gated episodic storage and trigger-driven retrieval, and a Self-Reflection Module (SRM) for bounded execution-time validation and corrective intervention. Both modules are implemented as feature-flagged extensions over the same execution substrate, enabling controlled ablations on ScienceWorld. Across four configurations---baseline, baseline+AMM, baseline+SRM, and the full system---the full system achieves the best mean final score (64.62), success rate (43.17%), and successful-step efficiency (19.33 steps), while SRM is the strongest standalone contributor. The results suggest that execution-time control is the dominant bottleneck in this setting, while episodic memory becomes most useful once the runtime loop is stabilized.
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language agents
interactive environments
state tracking
action execution
recovery
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Adaptive Memory Module
Self-Reflection Module
dual-process agent
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