updates

Definition

Writes that change stored values, where the referent shifts with context: gradient updates to weights during training, writes to a memory store in an agent, or targeted edits to specific facts in model editing. Which object is being updated is usually the crux of the paper's claim, so the word is only informative together with what it modifies. In continual-learning contexts it also carries the implied risk of overwriting — the update that fixes one behaviour breaking another.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: AutoSaddler — Growing a Harness That Doesn't Break, from Agent Failure LogsAutoSaddler: Automatic Harness Optimization with Durable Updates from Agent Execution Traces