papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Study examines procedural memory reuse and interference in language web agents
A new arXiv paper investigates what happens to language agents when the routines they have memorized no longer fit their environment. Combining a retrospective, human-assisted analysis with controlled web-task experiments, the authors test when stored procedures can still be successfully reused and when they interfere with one another. The work addresses a core assumption behind procedural memory in autonomous agents.