Journal article
Scored Before the Question Exists: What a Write-Time Importance Value in LLM Agent Memory Predicts, Why an Additive Term Is Not a Prior, and the Ablation the Canonical Architecture Did Not Run
An agent that stores what happens to it must decide what is worth storing and, later, what is worth reading back. The most-copied mechanism for the first decision is a scalar written at storage time: a language model is shown a record and asked how important it is. (2023) introduced this in the…