arXiv Computation and Language

TEM: Temporal State Tracking Memory for Large Language Model Agents

The paper introduces Temporal State Tracking Memory (TEM), a training‑free framework that stores facts as versioned records linked to their sources and retrieves the relevant versions in source order, labeling historical records before passing them to the answer model. TEM incorporates event memory and original dialogue turns to fill gaps in structured facts. Evaluations on 420 questions from 600 sessions with 60 personas show high key‑entity hit rates (75.71–97.62%) and significant improvements when historical labels are added, while keeping evidence compact (94–118 tokens per answer).

arXiv AI
Sep 11

What Should an Agent Forget? Separating What Is Stored from What Is Used

The paper introduces RD-Forget, a training‑free framework that separates what a persistent language agent stores from what it uses at answer time. It keeps a source archive of all observations while a query‑conditioned memory view filters evidence relevant to the current question, using a frozen language‑model curator to group facts into semantic slots and preserve multi‑hop relations. The approach employs rate‑distortion principles to stay within a memory budget and demonstrates improvements across conversational memory, knowledge updating, fact consolidation, long‑context reasoning, and personalization tasks.

By Yuhang Li, Yuchen Li
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

TrajWiki: Source-Grounded Memory Trajectories for Long-Horizon Dialogue Agents

Large language model agents have shown strong capabilities in generating coherent and contextually appropriate responses, yet robust long-horizon dialogue remains limited by the lack of external memory that is traceable, updatable, and diagnostically transparent. Existing memory-augmented agents often store memories as isolated records or overwritable states, making it difficult to preserve how information originates, evolves, conflicts, or becomes obsolete over time.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Agent Zero Memory: Provenance-Aware Long-Term Memory for LLM Agents

Agent Zero Memory is a provenance‑aware long‑term memory system for large language model agents that distills user interactions into three parallel memory structures: an episodic timeline, an associative entity‑event knowledge graph, and a semantic, citation‑locked hierarchical documentary memory. Retrieval is performed via an intent gate, source router, and concurrent searches across the three systems, producing integrated, cited answers that exclude fabrication and require evidence the reader has opened. The system achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LongMemEval (95.60%) and LoCoMo (93.60%) while offering a favorable accuracy‑cost‑latency trade‑off across multiple backbone LLMs.

By Ming Wu, Pengyuan Zhu
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

Temporal Evidence Forests for Long-Horizon Multi-Party Conversational Memory

The paper introduces T‑Mem, a memory framework that uses temporal structure to manage long‑horizon multi‑party conversations. It employs Temporal Evidence Discovery to find locally concentrated evidence, Temporal Memory Structuring to model state transitions and compress low‑information spans, and Evidence Forest Linearization to serialize the evidence for answer generation. Experiments on two benchmarks show that T‑Mem outperforms existing memory frameworks across various settings.

By Junyou Guo, Chongyang Tao, Yan He, Yong Wang, Shuai Ma
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

From Retrieval to Reconstruction: Constructing Evolvable Cognitive Memory for Long-Term Dialogue

The paper introduces CogMem, a cognitive memory architecture for long‑term dialogue agents that uses a PEC$^2$F graph schema to separate claims, facts, and events. Dialogue turns are incrementally turned into provenance‑aware graph records, consolidated into higher‑level facts, and reconciled into temporally scoped claim views when conflicting updates arise. Retrieval is performed by a rule‑based controller that applies deterministic graph operators—anchoring, traversal, intersection, and evidence grounding—guided by LLM intent parsing, achieving strong performance on multi‑hop, temporal, and knowledge‑update tasks in LoCoMo and LongMemEval benchmarks.

By Zirui Liao, Zhengxian Wu, Zhuohong Chen, Yunyao Yu, Xiaoyu Liu, Yifan Xu, Haoqian Wang
arXiv AI
Oct 5

APDMem: Agent-Controlled Progressive Disclosure for Query-Adaptive Long-Term Memory

APDMem is a hierarchical long‑term memory system for personalized LLM assistants that uses progressive disclosure to retrieve conversation history. It organizes memory into four layers—thematic summaries, personalized key facts, turn‑level evidence notes, and raw messages—and a controller reads from the top layer, drilling down only when necessary. This approach balances cost and fidelity, allowing simple queries to finish early while deeper inspection is triggered for complex or exact‑evidence requests, and a note synthesizer structures retrieved evidence before answer generation. Experiments on LongMemEval show APDMem performs strongly while accessing only 8% of the total conversations.

By Chin-Lun Fu, Anagha Kulkarni, Hong Ni, Behrouz Madahian