A compact memory state is grafted onto a frozen model

Claim

Chinese researchers grafted a compact memory state onto a frozen backbone, lifting agent memory benchmark scores by a third without any fine-tuning.

Reported metric: 1.31x

Reporting date: 2026-05-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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