Agents in the Large: Perception-Centered Architecture for Persistent Agents
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The paper proposes a Perception-Centered Architecture (Pera) for persistent language agents that continuously adapt service procedures by perceiving signals from tasks, context, and environmental changes. It organizes existing work and provides insights for building more capable persistent agents.
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Abstract
The paper proposes a perception-centered architecture for persistent language agents that continuously adapt service procedures by perceiving signals from tasks, context, and environmental changes.
Cognitive language agents have achieved substantial progress by equippinglanguage modelswith memory, tools, and decision-making procedures, enabling agents to reason and act in interactive environments. Existing frameworks largely cast these agents as systems for solving user-specified, bounded tasks. An increasingly important goal is for language agents to provide persistent assistance in long-lived settings where user needs, context, and service procedures persist and change, and to remain useful across the broad range of tasks that arise over time. Yet we still lack a framework to characterize persistent AI agents, organize existing work, and guide future development. To this end, we propose aPerception-Centered ArchitectureforPersistent Agents(Pera). Pera describes a persistent agent organized around perception and control components that continually perceive service-relevant signals from episodic task executions, internal context, and changes in the surrounding environment, and use these signals to constructlifecycle tasks. These tasks drive the ongoing operation and adaptation of the agent’s service procedures. We use Pera to retrospectively organize recent work, examine a detailed case study, and offer forward-looking insights for building more capablepersistent agents. Just as software engineering moved from programming in the small to programming in the large, Pera frames the evolution of language agents as an analogous architectural transition toward long-lived, adaptive intelligence systems.
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