Journal article
Consolidation Without Weights: What the Complementary Learning Systems Analogy Licenses in LLM Agent Memory, and Why the Systems That Borrow Its Name Do Not Inherit Its Guarantee
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Memory systems for language-model agents almost all contain a step called consolidation, and almost all of them cite, or gesture at, the complementary learning systems account of hippocampus and neocortex when they name it. In that account…