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EMPO2: Memory-Augmented Agent (ICLR 2026)
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Hybrid on/off-policy RL giving agents non-parametric memory for exploration. 128.6% improvement over GRPO on ScienceWorld, 11.3% on WebShop. Agents generalize to out-of-distribution tasks with "only a few trials with memory and no parameter updates." (arXiv)
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