How Can Recommendation Feedback Evolve Agent Memory?

Title:How Can Recommendation Feedback Evolve Agent Memory?

Abstract:Content-generation agents continuously receive impressions, clicks, conversions, and negative feedback from recommendation systems, providing real-world outcome signals for memory evolution. However, these signals are delayed and noisy, confounded by audience composition, placement, and recommendation policies, and may result from the combined influence of multiple memories, making accurate attribution difficult. Existing methods rely primarily on immediate feedback or semantic retrieval and therefore struggle to reliably translate recommendation outcomes into memory fitness. To address this challenge, we propose TIDE (Trajectory-Informed Directed Memory Evolution), an external memory evolution framework driven by delayed recommendation feedback. We further introduce Memory Evolution Gain (MEG), which measures the utility improvement of evolved memory over a no memory baseline on strictly future tasks. TIDE treats memory as a capacity-constrained population of experiences: temporal and semantic credit assignment estimates contextual fitness, while responsibility credit distributes outcome signals according to the memories referenced during generation. These signals are then used to reinforce, crossover, mutate, or evict memories. On an e-commerce membership marketing content-generation agent, TIDE achieves a +7.75-percentage-point MEG in offline temporal replay and significantly improves both unique click-through rate (UCTR) and activation rate in an online A/B test. On a delayed-label benchmark, TIDE achieves the lowest mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean squared error (RMSE) and the highest MEG among the compared methods, demonstrating its effectiveness.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.37544 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2609.37544v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

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