Long-Lived Characters, Local Inference: Incremental Memory Maintenance for Game NPCs

arXiv:2609.18935 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures. Supporting numerical snapshots included as ancillary files

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 2× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hybrid Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• EPIC: Efficient Position-Independent Caching for Serving Large Language Models
• RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding
• HYPIC: Accelerating Hybrid-Attention LLM Serving with Position-Independent Caching
• LinearKV: One Cached State Suffices for Position-Independent Caching in Hybrid LLMs
• CacheBlend: Fast Large Language Model Serving for RAG with Cached Knowledge Fusion

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