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Learning from Failures: Heterogeneous Graph Memory for Small Language Model Tool-Using Agents

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TL;DR - FRESH is a retrieval framework that structures past successes and failures as a heterogeneous graph to help frozen small language models execute tools more reliably. It aims to prevent recurring structural errors in long-horizon, stateful environments without costly fine-tuning.

  • Models dependencies among tasks, actions, errors, repairs, and execution conditions rather than storing experiences as flat memory.
  • Retrieves strategies with their causal context and safety conditions, helping agents avoid repeated failures and unsafe state changes.
  • Targets errors such as missing observations, premature writes, repeated failed calls, and action-precondition violations.
  • Experiments on Ď„-Bench and AppWorld reportedly improve task success and tool-use reliability across multiple open-source models versus no-memory and representative memory baselines.

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Learning from Failures: Heterogeneous Graph Memory for Small Language Model Tool-Using Agents

arXiv cs.LG Jiaxing Li, Lei Song, Rui Dong, Youyong Kong 2026-09-23 arXiv:2609.28003
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TL;DR - FRESH is a retrieval framework that structures past successes and failures as a heterogeneous graph to help frozen small language models execute tools more reliably. It aims to prevent recurring structural errors in long-horizon, stateful environments without costly fine-tuning.

  • Models dependencies among tasks, actions, errors, repairs, and execution conditions rather than storing experiences as flat memory.
  • Retrieves strategies with their causal context and safety conditions, helping agents avoid repeated failures and unsafe state changes.
  • Targets errors such as missing observations, premature writes, repeated failed calls, and action-precondition violations.
  • Experiments on Ď„-Bench and AppWorld reportedly improve task success and tool-use reliability across multiple open-source models versus no-memory and representative memory baselines.
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