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Memory

Definition
AI-generated

Memory in LLM systems is persistent or long-horizon state beyond a single context—conversation summaries, vector stores keyed by embedding, tool results on disk, or explicit banked facts—so agents or chat products can recall user preferences or project constraints across sessions.

Why it matters in GWAS

Assistants that remember prior cohort choices or file paths can speed curation, but memory must be versioned and scoped: stale remembered labels or allele conventions can silently propagate errors across meta-analyses.

Example usage

"We disabled cross-session memory for the public demo so participant-like synthetic records could not be replayed into later chats."

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References

  • Packer C, et al. (2023). MemGPT: towards LLMs as operating systems. arXiv:2310.08560.

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