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compression aging

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Definition

When repeated summarizing of an AI assistant's memory slowly erases the specific facts.

In the agent-aging taxonomy, accumulation-driven degradation where lossy compaction across sessions progressively blurs specific values (numbers, names, dates) into generalities while preserving fluent prose.

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