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
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 consolidation is a specific operation: repeated replay…