Managing Procedural Memory in LLM Agents: Control, Adaptation, and Evaluation
Researchers introduce AFTER, a benchmark evaluating how procedural memory in large language models transfers across tasks, roles, and model types. Testing on 382 enterprise tasks across six professional roles, the study finds that procedural memory improves performance by 3.7-6.7 points per refinement round, with multi-model trained skills achieving 73.1% cross-model accuracy—though some skills generalize broadly while others become role-specific.