Efficiently Enhancing General Agents With Hierarchical-categorical Memory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22006v1
• Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 06:12:51 GMT
• Title: Efficiently Enhancing General Agents With Hierarchical-categorical Memory
• Authors: Changze Qiao, Mingming Lu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce EHC, a general agent capable of learning without parameter updates.<n>EHC consists of a Hierarchical Memory Retrieval (HMR) module and a Task-Category Oriented Experience Learning (TOEL) module.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With large language models (LLMs) demonstrating remarkable capabilities, there has been a surge in research on leveraging LLMs to build general-purpose multi-modal agents. However, existing approaches either rely on computationally expensive end-to-end training using large-scale multi-modal data or adopt tool-use methods that lack the ability to continuously learn and adapt to new environments. In this paper, we introduce EHC, a general agent capable of learning without parameter updates. EHC consists of a Hierarchical Memory Retrieval (HMR) module and a Task-Category Oriented Experience Learning (TOEL) module. The HMR module facilitates rapid retrieval of relevant memories and continuously stores new information without being constrained by memory capacity. The TOEL module enhances the agent's comprehension of various task characteristics by classifying experiences and extracting patterns across different categories. Extensive experiments conducted on multiple standard datasets demonstrate that EHC outperforms existing methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance and underscoring its effectiveness as a general agent for handling complex multi-modal tasks.

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