Papers with ScienceWorld
An Efficient Context-Dependent Memory Framework for LLM-Centric Agents (2025.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | a recent study has demonstrated that context-dependent memory encoding can help to retrieve key memory cues essential for problem-solving. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient architecture miming human memory processes through multistage encoding, context-aware storage, and retrieval strategies for LLM-centric agents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture surpasses state-of-the-art online LLM-centric approaches on two interactive decision-making benchmarks in the navigation and manipulation domain. |
Learning How to Remember: A Meta-Cognitive Management Method for Structured and Transferable Agent Memory (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches store memory in fixed representations and reuse it at a single or implicit level of abstraction, which limits generalization and often leads to negative transfer when distribution shift. |
| Approach: | They propose a Meta-Cognitive Memory Abstraction method which decouples task execution from memory management by combining a frozen task model with a learned memory copilot. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on ALFWorld, ScienceWorld, and BabyAI show that the proposed method improves performance, out-of-distribution generalization, and cross-task transfer over several baselines. |
DPEPO: Diverse Parallel Exploration Policy Optimization for LLM-based Agents (2026.acl-long)
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JunShuo Zhang, Chengrui Huang, Feng Guo, Zihan Li, Ke Shi, Menghua Jiang, Jiguo Yu, Shuo Shang, Shen Gao
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to large language model (LLM) agents that follow the sequential "reason-then-act" paradigm suffer from limited exploration and incomplete environmental understanding as they interact with only a single environment per step. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm that enables an agent to interact with multiple environments simultaneously and share cross-trajectory experiences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) success rates while maintaining comparable efficiency to strong sequential baselines. |