@omarsar0: Language models need "sleep"
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A paper explores letting language model agents 'sleep' to reset internal state and improve performance on long-horizon tasks, addressing context length scaling issues.
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Language models need “sleep”
DAIR.AI (@dair_ai): // Language Models Need Sleep //
Let your agents “sleep”, folks.
On a serious note, this is a fascinating paper on getting the most from long-horizon agents.
Here is the problem with agents today: Attention scales badly with context length, so long-horizon agents keep paying a
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