Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Nov 4, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Cortex: Turning Agent Experience into Long-Term Parametric Memory

Researchers from Zhejiang University, ByteDance Seed, and Tsinghua University propose Cortex, a method that consolidates contextual experience into model parameters via prospective rehearsal and context distillation, enabling agents to retain skills and knowledge without external retrieval, validated across tool use, fact updating, and agent tasks with minimal parameter growth.