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preprint2026arXiv

Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of NLP tasks, but they remain fundamentally stateless, constrained by limited context windows that hinder long-horizon reasoning. Recent efforts to address this limitation often augment LLMs with an external memory bank, yet most existing pipelines are static and heuristic-driven, lacking a learned mechanism for deciding what to store, update, or retrieve. We present Memory-R1, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that equips LLMs with the ability to actively manage and utilize external memory through two specialized agents: a Memory Manager that learns structured operations, including ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, and NOOP; and an Answer Agent that pre-selects and reasons over relevant entries. Both agents are fine-tuned with outcome-driven RL (PPO and GRPO), enabling adaptive memory management with minimal supervision. With only 152 training QA pairs, Memory-R1 outperforms strong baselines and generalizes across diverse question types, three benchmarks (LoCoMo, MSC, LongMemEval), and multiple model scales (3B-14B).

preprint2026arXiv

PRISM: Self-Pruning Intrinsic Selection Method for Training-Free Multimodal Data Selection

Visual instruction tuning adapts pre-trained Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to follow human instructions for real-world applications. However, the rapid growth of these datasets introduces significant redundancy, leading to increased computational costs. Existing methods for selecting instruction data aim to prune this redundancy, but predominantly rely on computationally demanding techniques such as proxy-based inference or training-based metrics. Consequently, the substantial computational costs incurred by these selection processes often exacerbate the very efficiency bottlenecks they are intended to resolve, posing a significant challenge to the scalable and effective tuning of MLLMs. To address this challenge, we first identify a critical, yet previously overlooked, factor: the anisotropy inherent in visual feature distributions. We find that this anisotropy induces a \textit{Global Semantic Drift}, and overlooking this phenomenon is a key factor limiting the efficiency of current data selection methods. Motivated by this insight, we devise \textbf{PRISM}, the first training-free framework for efficient visual instruction selection. PRISM surgically removes the corrupting influence of global background features by modeling the intrinsic visual semantics via implicit re-centering. Empirically, PRISM reduces the end-to-end time for data selection and model tuning to just 30\% of conventional pipelines. More remarkably, it achieves this efficiency while simultaneously enhancing performance, surpassing models fine-tuned on the full dataset across eight multimodal and three language understanding benchmarks, culminating in a 101.7\% relative improvement over the baseline. The code is available for access via \href{https://github.com/bibisbar/PRISM}{this repository}.

preprint2026arXiv

Reasoning Compression with Mixed-Policy Distillation

Reasoning-centric large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance by generating intermediate reasoning trajectories, but often incur excessive token usage and high inference-time decoding cost. We observe that, when solving the same problems, larger reasoning models can often produce more concise traces, whereas smaller reasoning models tend to generate longer and more redundant trajectories. This is especially problematic in real-world deployment, where memory, latency, and serving-cost constraints often favor smaller models. Our observations suggest that reasoning compression can be transferred from large models to small ones rather than enforced through explicit length constraints. Based on this insight, we propose Mixed-Policy Distillation (MPD), a reasoning compression framework that transfers concise reasoning behavior from a larger-sized teacher to a smaller student by distilling teacher-compressed student trajectories. Unlike on-policy distillation, which aligns the student with teacher distributions over verbose student trajectories, or off-policy distillation, which relies on teacher-generated trajectories and may suffer from distribution mismatch, MPD combines the strengths of both. Given a student-sampled trajectory, the teacher rewrites it into a more concise reasoning trace, and the student is trained via KL-based alignment on the compressed trajectory. This preserves student-policy exploration while injecting teacher-guided compression. Experiments on Qwen3-1.7B show that MPD reduces token usage by up to 27.1% while improving performance across multiple reasoning benchmarks, demonstrating an effective approach to efficient small-model reasoning.