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arxiv: 2605.24468 · v1 · pith:6OIJRSZTnew · submitted 2026-05-23 · 💻 cs.AI

SAM: State-Adaptive Memory for Long-Horizon Reasoning Agent

Yuyang Hu , Hongjin Qian , Shuting Wang , Jiongnan Liu , Ziliang Zhao , Jiejun Tan , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou This is my paper

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keywords state-adaptive memorylong-horizon reasoningLLM agentsmemory cuesintent-driven recallreinforcement learningagent trajectories
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SAM treats long-horizon reasoning as state-adaptive memory that uses compact cues to trigger intent-driven recall of raw trajectories.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that the core difficulty in long-horizon agentic reasoning is not length alone but the fact that needed information is scattered and only becomes relevant later. Existing methods truncate, compress, or retrieve history without modeling how access should change with the agent's current state. SAM instead builds compact memory cues that act as handles while keeping the full raw trajectories available for recall when the agent's intent matches. These cues are trained with expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning so their utility aligns with overall trajectory performance. The approach is shown to improve results across four benchmarks and multiple agent backbones without retraining the underlying LLM.

Core claim

SAM is a standalone framework that consolidates ongoing interaction into compact memory cues while preserving raw trajectory pages for intent-driven recall. The cues serve as lightweight handles that allow the agent to reconstruct temporally distant information according to its current needs without retraining the underlying backbone. The memory module is further optimized through expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning, aligning cue utility with trajectory-level performance.

What carries the argument

State-Adaptive Memory (SAM), which generates compact cues as handles for intent-driven recall of preserved raw trajectory pages rather than replacing history.

If this is right

  • SAM outperforms strong baselines across BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WideSearch, and HLE.
  • The framework delivers gains over diverse agent backbones without retraining the LLM.
  • Explicit modeling of state-adaptive memory supplies a foundation for long-horizon agentic reasoning.
  • Raw trajectories remain available for reconstruction rather than being discarded or permanently compressed.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The separation of lightweight cues from full trajectories may reduce memory footprint in deployed agents while retaining access to details on demand.
  • If cue utility can be aligned via RL, the same pattern could be tested in settings where agents must switch between multiple goals within one long session.

Load-bearing premise

Expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning can produce memory cues whose utility aligns with trajectory-level performance, enabling effective intent-driven recall without retraining the LLM backbone.

What would settle it

An experiment in which SAM shows no improvement or underperforms baselines on BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WideSearch, and HLE when the state-adaptive cues and RL alignment are removed.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24468 by Hongjin Qian, Jiejun Tan, Jiongnan Liu, Shuting Wang, Yuyang Hu, Zheng Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Ziliang Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of SAM. Top left: page-based consolidation replaces raw interaction history with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Left: ablation on training stages and memory-backbone size, with GLM-4.7 as the agent backbone (BC: BrowseComp, BC-ZH: BrowseComp-ZH, WS: WideSearch). Right: ablation on the recall mechanism on BrowseComp with Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, holding the consolidated page store fixed and varying only how pages are retrieved. spanning long-range English browsing (BrowseComp), cross-lingual search (BrowseComp-ZH), broad exp… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Long-horizon behavior of SAM on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. (a) Tool-call count, confidence, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Long-horizon agentic reasoning requires large language models to act over long interaction histories containing thoughts, tool calls, observations, and partial conclusions. The challenge is not merely that these histories grow long, but that information needed for the current decision may be scattered across distant steps and only become relevant later. Existing approaches address this difficulty by truncating the interaction history, compressing it into shorter surrogates, or retrieving selected parts of it for reuse, but they do not explicitly model how access to past interaction should adapt to the agent's evolving state. We instead cast long-horizon reasoning as a problem of state-adaptive memory. To this end, we propose State-Adaptive Memory~(SAM), a standalone framework that consolidates ongoing interaction into compact memory cues while preserving raw trajectory pages for intent-driven recall. These cues are not treated as replacements for history; rather, they serve as lightweight handles that allow the agent to reconstruct temporally distant information according to its current needs, without retraining the underlying backbone. We further optimize the memory module through expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning, aligning it with trajectory-level utility. Across BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WideSearch, and HLE, SAM consistently outperforms strong baselines over diverse agent backbones. Our results suggest that explicit memory modeling provides a simple and effective foundation for long-horizon agentic reasoning.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes SAM, a standalone framework that models long-horizon agentic reasoning as state-adaptive memory. Interaction histories are consolidated into compact memory cues that act as handles for intent-driven recall of raw trajectory pages; the cues are optimized via expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning to align with trajectory-level utility. The paper reports that SAM consistently outperforms strong baselines across BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WideSearch, and HLE on diverse agent backbones without retraining the underlying LLM.

Significance. If the reported gains are robust and attributable to the state-adaptive cue mechanism rather than ancillary factors, the work would supply a modular, backbone-agnostic approach to long-context agent reasoning that preserves raw history while enabling selective recall. This addresses a practical bottleneck in current agent systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4 (Optimization and Training)] The central claim that expert-guided supervision plus RL produces memory cues whose utility aligns with trajectory-level performance (and thereby drives the benchmark gains) is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no ablations that isolate this alignment. Removing the RL stage or the expert supervision while keeping the cue-generation architecture fixed would be required to test whether the optimization step, rather than the state-adaptive design itself, accounts for the observed improvements.
  2. [§3.3 (Reinforcement Learning Objective)] The reward formulation used in the RL stage is described only at a high level; it is unclear how credit is assigned to individual memory cues that affect decisions many steps later. Without a concrete reward definition or sensitivity analysis (e.g., §4.2 or Eq. (X)), it remains possible that the reported outperformance arises from distribution shift introduced by expert data rather than from improved intent-driven recall.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§5 (Experiments)] Table 1 and Table 2 report aggregate scores but do not include per-task variance or statistical significance tests; adding these would strengthen the cross-backbone comparison.
  2. [§3.1 (Memory Cue Construction)] The notation for memory cue generation (e.g., the function that maps state to cue) is introduced without an explicit equation; a single displayed equation would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments point by point below, agreeing that additional experiments and clarifications are needed to strengthen the claims.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§4 (Optimization and Training)] The central claim that expert-guided supervision plus RL produces memory cues whose utility aligns with trajectory-level performance (and thereby drives the benchmark gains) is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no ablations that isolate this alignment. Removing the RL stage or the expert supervision while keeping the cue-generation architecture fixed would be required to test whether the optimization step, rather than the state-adaptive design itself, accounts for the observed improvements.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript currently lacks ablations isolating the optimization stages from the core state-adaptive cue architecture, and that such experiments are necessary to substantiate the load-bearing claim. In the revised version we will add these ablations: variants trained without the RL stage and without expert supervision (while retaining the identical cue-generation architecture) will be evaluated on the same benchmarks and reported in an expanded §4. This will allow direct assessment of whether the observed gains derive primarily from the state-adaptive design or from the optimization procedure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.3 (Reinforcement Learning Objective)] The reward formulation used in the RL stage is described only at a high level; it is unclear how credit is assigned to individual memory cues that affect decisions many steps later. Without a concrete reward definition or sensitivity analysis (e.g., §4.2 or Eq. (X)), it remains possible that the reported outperformance arises from distribution shift introduced by expert data rather than from improved intent-driven recall.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current description of the RL reward is high-level and does not explicitly detail credit assignment across multi-step trajectories. In the revision we will expand §3.3 with the precise mathematical formulation of the reward (including its dependence on trajectory-level utility metrics) and add a sensitivity analysis subsection in §4.2 that varies the reward components and examines their effect on cue selection. These additions will help rule out distribution-shift explanations and clarify how individual cues receive credit for downstream performance. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; SAM framework and optimizations are presented as independent proposals evaluated on external benchmarks.

full rationale

The paper introduces State-Adaptive Memory (SAM) as a standalone framework that consolidates interaction histories into memory cues optimized via expert-guided supervision and reinforcement learning, then evaluates it empirically across BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WideSearch, and HLE on diverse agent backbones. No equations, self-definitional reductions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims rest on benchmark outperformance rather than any derivation that reduces to its own inputs by construction. This is the expected non-finding for an empirical systems paper whose validity is tested externally.

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