Models Learn to Allocate Context and Scale Inference More Effectively

Hermes-Learn trains language models to decide when to open, delegate to, and reuse separate reasoning contexts.

Big Tech
Xinyu Li · Mononito Goswami · Hao Liu · Nikos Kanakaris · Langlin Huang · Prithwish Jana · +2 more

Carnegie Mellon University · AWS AI Labs · Washington University in St. Louis · Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Digest··3 min read
Li and colleagues study contextual reasoning, the ability to allocate multiple context windows and decide what information should pass between them during inference.

The authors built Hermes, a hierarchy of configurable inference harnesses.

Why this paper

From AWS AI Labs and 3 others · Part of Context Engineering for Agents, now 41 papers

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A model's ability to choose how to allocate and reuse contexts during inference can be learned, enabling test-time scaling.

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