You Cannot Retrieve What Was Never Stored
TL;DR for operators An AI assistant cannot retrieve information that its memory-writing process failed to preserve. In a controlled study of Self-Keyed In-Parameter Memorization (Skim), 44 of 59 failed recall attempts involved missing or incorrectly selected answer spans, while none were attributed to retrieval routing. The method achieved 63.1% mean recall across five language models storing 32 non-numeric dialogue facts without an external conversation store at inference.1 ...