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title: "Memory Archive: A Memory-Grounded Training Paradigm for Computer Use Agents"

authors:
  - given-names: "Kartik"
    name-suffix: "A."
date-released: "2026-05-14"

abstract: >
  A research analysis of the training paradigm enabled by the Memory Archive
  data collection system, developed as part of Project Dockyard.
  Memory Archive produces a structured, annotated dataset comprising per-step actuation records,
  process-level reasoning annotations, visual state triples, and compiled task
  guides called memories. This data is used across all four stages of the CUA
  training and deployment lifecycle: pre-training, supervised fine-tuning,
  post-training reinforcement, and inference-time retrieval. The central novelty
  is format consistency — the memory.md artifact is the same structured object
  at pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference time, eliminating
  the train-deploy distribution gap that undermines most CUA systems.

keywords:
  - computer use agents
  - memory-grounded training
  - format consistency
  - reinforcement learning
  - retrieval-augmented execution
  - process supervision
  - vision-language models

repository-code: "https://github.com/nullvoider07/memory-archive-paradigm"
url: "https://github.com/nullvoider07/memory-archive-paradigm"
license: CC-BY-NC-4.0

preferred-citation:
  type: report
  title: "Memory Archive: A Memory-Grounded Training Paradigm for Computer Use Agents"
  authors:
    - given-names: "Kartik"
      name-suffix: "A."
  year: 2026
  institution:
    name: "Project Dockyard"
  url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20176599"
  doi: "10.5281/zenodo.20176599"
  notes: "Independent research. Preprint available at Zenodo."

references:
  - type: software
    title: "Memory Archive"
    authors:
      - given-names: "Kartik"
        name-suffix: "A."
    url: "https://github.com/nullvoider07/Memory-Archive"
    notes: "The data collection system that generates the training corpus described in this paper."