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

Derived from arXiv:2607.17545 - Retain or Consolidate? Budget-Dependent Operator Selection for Language Agent Memory

## Core Concept
Language agents depend on memory across interactions. However, the limited context windows of large language models (LLMs) and their inference costs constrain how much memory can be used at once. Existing systems mainly follow two strategies: memory retention and memory consolidation. Retention keeps raw records and preserves exact details, but relevant evidence may not fit under a tight budget; consolidation compresses and combines records, improving coverage per token but risking the loss of q...

## Key Insights
- Derived from arXiv:2607.17545
- Published: 2026-07-20
- Utility Score: 1.00
- Authors: Qingcan Kang, Mingyang Liu, Shixiong Kai et al.

## Activation
retain-or-consolidate-budget-dependent-operator-se, 2607.17545

## References
- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17545