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Shared memory system boosts agent learning across multimodal tasks

EpiCon: Collective Agent Learning through Co-Evolving Multimodal Memory

Abstract: Agents can learn from past executions, but enabling different agents to reuse and build on one another's experience remains challenging. We introduce EpiCon, a shared multimodal memory framework for agent collective learning without updating host model parameters. EpiCon links question-level memory evolution to a persistent experience bank through two independently trained 2B models: a memory controller and a tree self-organizer. The controller jointly refines textual guidance and visual evidence across attempts and selectively includes visual memory. The self-organizer consolidates lessons hierarchically and retrieves experience and rules for new problems. We evaluate EpiCon on eleven benchmarks spanning four multimodal task domains, using two harnesses and multiple backbones. A frozen bank improves other systems even with a single solving attempt. A second harness raises the original system's macro-average score by 2.6 points across eleven benchmarks. Across four host configurations, EpiCon improves macro-average scores by 1.7 to 4.9 points over No Memory and reduces memory-operation time by 67\% to 74\% relative to backbone-sized memory models.

Tue 29 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Agents can get smarter by remembering what they’ve done before, but sharing those memories between different agents is tricky. The authors created EpiCon, a system that lets multiple agents share and improve on their experiences using a shared memory bank without changing their main brains. It combines text and pictures to remember and retrieve helpful lessons when solving new problems. Testing on many tasks showed that EpiCon improves how well agents perform and makes memory use faster.
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