Agents can budget external checks without sacrificing task quality

BudgetPM learns when to query external state now and when to reserve limited observation capacity for later intentions.

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Zhengkun Di · Bin Shi · Kai Sun · Yiming Xu · Bo Dong

Xi’an Jiaotong University

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Di and colleagues formulate external-state checking for stored intentions as a resource-allocation problem under a hard episode budget.

The authors study prospective memory, in which an agent stores an intention that should be executed when an external condition becomes true.

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From Xi’an Jiaotong University · Part of Agent Harness Optimization, now 90 papers

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BudgetPM allocates limited external observations across stored agent intentions to maximize task quality under a hard budget.

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