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A Handoff Needed Decisions, Statistics—and the Raw Exceptions
A theory of cross-session continuation separates exact recall from preserving the distribution needed by the next task.
Summary
A theory of cross-session continuation separates exact recall from preserving the distribution needed by the next task.
The authors model handover as transfer of task-relative in-context learning state and derive when a fixed-length record can be sufficient. Their proposed three-part record stores decisions and constraints exactly, summarizes repeated evidence only with task-justified statistics, and retains original observations whose effect those statistics cannot preserve. The guarantees hold under stated statistical conditions; they are a design framework, not a universal compression recipe for arbitrary conversations.
Why it matters
A theory of cross-session continuation separates exact recall from preserving the distribution needed by the next task.
Limits and context
- Their proposed three-part record stores decisions and constraints exactly, summarizes repeated evidence only with task-justified statistics, and retains original observations whose effect those statistics cannot preserve.
- The guarantees hold under stated statistical conditions; they are a design framework, not a universal compression recipe for arbitrary conversations.
Key claims
A theory of cross-session continuation separates exact recall from preserving the distribution needed by the next task.
Qualification: Their proposed three-part record stores decisions and constraints exactly, summarizes repeated evidence only with task-justified statistics, and retains original observations whose effect those statistics cannot preserve.
Evidence: source-2026-08-17-016
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2608.14528arXiv · primary research
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