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cs.AI, math.ST, stat.ME, stat.ML · 2608.14528 · 2026/08/14

Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries

Kato, Masahiro, Kato, Taka
TL;DR:把跨会话交接形式化为「任务相关 ICL 状态的传递」:外生性条件下预测等价性刻画最粗确定性充分交接并给出固定长度 bit 需求;提出三部分记录——精确存决策与约束、用任务论证统计存重复证据、保留未被统计保存的原始观测。

🎯 问题

上下文到达输入上限、应用重启、或把任务交给另一个 agent 时,必须决定前一会话哪些信息该传递——这是个信息取舍问题,却没有理论指导。

🔬 方法

把 handover 建模为任务相关 ICL 状态的转移,区分「精确恢复旧材料」与「保持目标分布」;在 exogeneity 条件下用预测等价性刻画最粗充分交接;高斯线性回归给出精确有限维交接与有限 bit 扰动界,非参数回归给出记忆-预测误差上下界。
章节结构(全文标题提取):
1 Introduction
2 Overview of Session Handover
3 General Formulation of Session Handover
4 Proposed Handover Method
5 Statistical Analysis
6 Implications for Evaluating Handover Records
7 Discussion
8 Conclusion

📊 结果

理论刻画交接必须保留什么、记忆需求如何随继续程序伸缩;提出三部分交接记录并在一般回归设定下验证界。

💡 与研究方向关联

会话延续与上下文交接是 agent 长对话(含 duplex 多轮延续)的基础设施问题——交接记录的三段式结构对用户的跨会话 agent、上下文管理有直接借鉴。

📝 原文摘要

▶ 原文摘要 Abstract
This study investigates the methodological and theoretical properties of session handover in applications that use large language models. A task may continue in a new session when the context reaches the model's input limit, when the application restarts, or when another agent is asked to finish the task. The application must then decide which information from the earlier session to pass on. We formulate handover as the transfer of a task-relative in-context learning (ICL) state and distinguish exact recovery of earlier material from preservation of the target distribution. Under an exogeneity condition, predictive equivalence characterizes the coarsest deterministic sufficient handover and gives a fixed-length bit requirement. The analysis isolates the effects of the memory constraint, the writer, and the continuation procedure, and quantifies the cost of writing before the realized downstream query is known. We propose a three-part record that stores decisions and constraints exactly, uses task-justified statistics for repeated evidence, and retains original observations whose effect is not preserved by those statistics. Gaussian linear regression gives an exact finite-dimensional handover and finite-bit perturbation bounds, while nonparametric regression gives upper and lower bounds that relate memory to squared prediction error. These results provide a theory and method for deciding what a handover must retain and how its memory requirement depends on the continuation task.
Deep Read · 2026-08-18高松灯 / Agent 日报
Session HandoverICLMemoryContext Management