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AutoAgent: Evolving Cognition and Elastic Memory Orchestration for Adaptive Agents

arXiv cs.AI / 3/11/2026

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Key Points

  • AutoAgent is a novel self-evolving multi-agent framework designed to enhance long-term experiential learning and real-time contextual decision-making for autonomous agents.
  • The system integrates evolving cognition, on-the-fly contextual decision-making, and elastic memory orchestration to handle adaptive tasks in dynamic, open-ended environments.
  • AutoAgent employs a structured prompt-level cognition that dynamically combines task context with a unified action space including tool calls, large language model generation, and inter-agent communication.
  • The Elastic Memory Orchestrator optimizes long-horizon reasoning by managing interaction history through compression and abstraction, reducing token usage while preserving critical decision evidence.
  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that AutoAgent outperforms static and memory-augmented baselines in task success, tool use efficiency, and collaborative robustness across multiple benchmarks and environments.

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2603.09716 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]

Title:AutoAgent: Evolving Cognition and Elastic Memory Orchestration for Adaptive Agents

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Abstract:Autonomous agent frameworks still struggle to reconcile long-term experiential learning with real-time, context-sensitive decision-making. In practice, this gap appears as static cognition, rigid workflow dependence, and inefficient context usage, which jointly limit adaptability in open-ended and non-stationary environments. To address these limitations, we present AutoAgent, a self-evolving multi-agent framework built on three tightly coupled components: evolving cognition, on-the-fly contextual decision-making, and elastic memory orchestration. At the core of AutoAgent, each agent maintains structured prompt-level cognition over tools, self-capabilities, peer expertise, and task knowledge. During execution, this cognition is combined with live task context to select actions from a unified space that includes tool calls, LLM-based generation, and inter-agent requests. To support efficient long-horizon reasoning, an Elastic Memory Orchestrator dynamically organizes interaction history by preserving raw records, compressing redundant trajectories, and constructing reusable episodic abstractions, thereby reducing token overhead while retaining decision-critical evidence. These components are integrated through a closed-loop cognitive evolution process that aligns intended actions with observed outcomes to continuously update cognition and expand reusable skills, without external retraining. Empirical results across retrieval-augmented reasoning, tool-augmented agent benchmarks, and embodied task environments show that AutoAgent consistently improves task success, tool-use efficiency, and collaborative robustness over static and memory-augmented baselines. Overall, AutoAgent provides a unified and practical foundation for adaptive autonomous agents that must learn from experience while making reliable context-aware decisions in dynamic environments.
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.09716 [cs.AI]
  (or arXiv:2603.09716v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09716
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From: Xiaoxing Wang [view email]
[v1] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:23:49 UTC (1,006 KB)
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