arXiv:2610.33047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running assistants often interpret follow-up requests whose referents, constraints, and active goals were established many turns earlier. The central challenge is therefore not only context length, but retrieval intent: a current query such as ``use the previous configuration'' may omit the project, entity, and version terms needed to locate relevant evidence. Long-context models can recover those terms by replaying the interaction, but repeatedly pay the cost of processing history. Conventional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is cheaper, yet assumes an information-sufficient query; conversational rewriting either rereads the history or depends on an explicitly maintained textual memory. We introduce \emph{Parametric Session State} (\method{}), a reusable session-memory layer that remembers what to search for while keeping factual knowledge external.
Parametric Session States Recover Retrieval Intent without Replaying History
A new arXiv paper (2610.33047v1) introduces Parametric Session State, a reusable session-memory layer that recovers retrieval intent from long-running assistant conversations without replaying history. The method addresses queries like "use the previous configuration" that omit the project, entity, and version terms needed to locate evidence, aiming to avoid both the cost of long-context replay and the information-sufficient-query assumption of conventional retrieval-augmented generation. The approach keeps factual knowledge external while remembering what to search for.
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