Weighted Memory Tree: Remembering What Matters for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

📅 2026-08-20
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为解决长时序LLM代理推理成本高及信息过时问题,提出加权记忆树方法,通过动态保留分数机制筛选有效信息,提升准确性和减少提示令牌使用。
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Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated the ability to solve multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and external information access, yet growing execution histories increase inference cost and expose reasoning to outdated, irrelevant, or misleading information, potentially degrading reasoning quality. Existing memory approaches organize or compress execution histories but provide limited mechanisms for deciding which memories remain active. We introduce the, a hierarchical memory system that organizes execution into tasks, subtasks, and actions while assigning each memory a dynamic retention score. Event-based updates and selection-based decay revise these scores, allowing WMT to preserve useful information, fold completed trajectories, suppress low-utility content, and retain access to folded context. We evaluate WMT on GAIA-Text using Qwen3-8B, Gemma 4 E4B, and Llama-3.1-8B, with ablations and memory-poisoning experiments. Relative to linear memory, WMT improves accuracy by an average of 9.97 percentage points while reducing prompt-token usage by 32.8%. Memory-poisoning experiments show that WMT limits the persistence and propagation of unreliable information. Our results suggest that effective long-horizon agent memory depends less on storing more information than on deciding which information should remain active.
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Large language model
Execution history
Inference cost
Reasoning quality
Memory system
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Weighted Memory Tree
Dynamic Retention Score
Long-Horizon Tasks
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