Erkang Zhu

Alibaba's Scroll drops context compaction and beats the best long-horizon agent by 37.4 points

Alibaba researchers unveiled Scroll, a context manager that skips compaction entirely and has the model write Python to retrieve what it needs, scoring 94.8% on LongMemEval_S, 73.1% on BEAM_10M and 86.7% on LOCA_256K with Qwen3.8-Max.