Counterfactual credit teaches language models which memories stay useful

MGPO trains a memory writer by measuring each rewrite’s incremental contribution to present and future task performance.

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Jiaming Tang · Mingyan Liu · Armin Sarabi

University of Michigan

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Tang, Liu and Sarabi address a central problem in persistent language-model memory: a rewrite may help only much later, and its apparent value may actually come from information already stored.

The authors trained a persistent textual-memory writer against a fixed downstream reader.

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From University of Michigan

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MGPO isolates incremental value of memory rewrites via counterfactual credit, reducing memory length by 80% while improving extraction.

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