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[Submitted on 21 Oct 2026] Title:Externalise the Memory: A Pre-Registered Study of Where an Embodied Agent's Experience Should Live View a PDF of the paper titled Externalise the Memory: A Pre-Registered Study of Where an Embodied Agent's Experience Should Live, by Cheng-Yin Tu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Should an embodied agent's experience be baked into its policy weights, or kept external and retrieved at inference? A memory-augmented teacher (a VLM that retrieves lessons, with their episode images, from its own past attempts) produces trajectories on a vision-conditioned reach task; from the same trajectories we distil LoRA student policies and evaluate them under matched protocols, including one that re-attaches the teacher's frozen retrieval buffer to a fixed set of student weights. We pre-registered the hypotheses, arms, tests, and analysis rules before training and before any p-value. Distilling the memory-augmented behaviour into weights beat an action-only control by +1 pp (n.s.); the registered test proves underpowered for its own minimum effect, so we withdraw - rather than refute - the memory-in-weights claim. Attaching retrieval to a fixed set of student weights added +34 pp (z=5.15), reaching the pooled memory-augmented teacher reference (49.3%); the pre-registered protocol contrast agrees (+23 pp, z=3.36); under a pre-registered auto-reset sensitivity count the two are +36 and +29 pp. An exploratory behavioural probe with pre-registered per-arm predictions is consistent with behavioural distillation transferring the marginal correction but not the conditional, situation-specific correction that retrieval supplies. The recipe that follows is to externalise the memory: in follow-up controls registered before they ran, the same frozen buffer lifts the base model with no adapter to 48% (sensitivity 48%) and the other three adapters from 19-26% to 53-55% (sensitivity 17-21% to 50-55%), and the adapter adds nothing detectable once the buffer is attached. On a second, harder task, the retrieval advantage points the same direction but falls short of significance (+6 pp, 95% CI [-4.5, +16.4]); exploratory diagnostics tie the attenuation to memory coverage. Comments: 28 pages. A 5-page version appears at the CL4FMAgents workshop, NeurIPS 2026 (non-archival). Code and pre-registration: this https URL Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.30478 [cs.RO] (or arXiv:2610.30478v1 [cs.RO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.30478 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Cheng-Yin Tu [view email] [v1] Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:54:57 UTC (291 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Externalise the Memory: A Pre-Registered Study of Where an Embodied Agent's Experience Should Live, by Cheng-Yin Tu View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.RO new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)