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// δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for LLMs // One of the more elegant memory mechanisms I've seen this month. Most long-term memory work either inflates context or retrains the model. This paper shows a tiny external state, coupled directly into the attention computation, can do the work that bigger context windows fail at. It's cheap, modular, and frozen-model friendly. There is no fine-tuning, no backbone swap, and no context extension. δ-mem augments a frozen full-attention model with a compact online associative-memory state. The state is a fixed-size matrix updated by delta-rule learning, and its readout produces low-rank corrections to the backbone's attention during generation. Results: An 8×8 online memory state is enough to lift the frozen backbone's average score by 1.10x and beat the strongest non-δ-mem memory baseline by 1.15x. On memory-heavy benchmarks the gap widens (1.31x on MemoryAgentBench, 1.20x on LoCoMo) while general capabilities are largely preserved. Paper: https://t.co/peVmZ9reue Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://t.co/LRnpZN7L4c