Study finds deep research agents have selective memory: focusing on start and end
yuz9yuz · x · 2026-08-22
A paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 reveals a memory flaw in deep research agents: they tend to focus on the beginning and the end of long-horizon trajectories while ignoring the middle. The research maps out when context management helps or hurts performance based on this behavior.
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