MemoryArena is a new evaluation gym that benchmarks agent memory in interdependent multi‑session tasks. Unlike prior benchmarks that test memorization or single‑session action in isolation, MemoryArena requires agents to acquire memory while interacting with the environment and then use that memory to guide future decisions across a range of tasks such as web navigation, planning, information search, and formal reasoning. The benchmark reveals that agents excelling on existing long‑context memory tests perform poorly here, highlighting a gap in current memory evaluation methods.
By Zexue He, Yu Wang, Churan Zhi, Yuanzhe Hu, Tzu-Ping Chen, Lang Yin, Ze Chen, Tong Arthur Wu, Siru Ouyang, Zihan Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Julian McAuley, Yejin Choi, Alex Pentland
arXiv:2605. 18421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents mainly evaluate reasoning, planning, and execution.
By Yuyao Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Mo Chi, Kaichi Yu, Yuhan Li, Miao Peng, Bing Tong, Chen Zhang, Yan Zhou, Jia Li
arXiv:2606. 07909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) agents can use external tools to help users solve complex tasks.
By Suleyman Armagan Er, Danilo Ribeiro, Yogesh Virkar, Surafel Lakew, Adi Kalyanpur, James Gung, Thomas Delteil, Arshit Gupta
arXiv:2607. 26072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term memory is becoming a core capability of LLM-based agents, but existing evaluations largely test conversational recall in open-domain or persona-grounded settings.
By Changyu Du, Alexander Vosseler, Filippo Mazza, Andr\'e Borrmann
arXiv:2606. 07909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) agents can use external tools to help users solve complex tasks.
By Suleyman Armagan Er, Danilo Ribeiro, Yogesh Virkar, Surafel Lakew, Adi Kalyanpur, James Gung, Thomas Delteil, Arshit Gupta
arXiv:2507. 05257v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily focus on evaluating reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities, while another critical component-memory, encompassing how agents memorize, update, and retrieve long-term information-is under-evaluated due to the lack of benchmarks.
By Yuanzhe Hu, Yu Wang, Julian McAuley
arXiv:2606. 04315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents accumulate histories that outgrow their context windows, motivating a growing literature on memory systems.
By Zhikai Chen, Jialiang Gu, Junyu Yin, Xianxuan Long, Shenglai Zeng, Xiaoze Liu, Kai Guo, Keren Zhou, Jiliang Tang
The paper introduces StructMemEval, a benchmark designed to assess how well large language model (LLM) agents can organize their long‑term memory rather than merely recall facts. It compiles tasks that humans typically solve by structuring knowledge—such as transaction ledgers, to‑do lists, and trees—and evaluates agents on these. Experiments show that simple retrieval‑augmented LLMs struggle with such organization tasks, while memory‑augmented agents perform better when explicitly prompted to structure their memory, yet many modern LLMs still fail to recognize memory structures without prompting.
By Alina Shutova, Alexandra Olenina, Ivan Vinogradov, Anton Sinitsin
arXiv:2607. 13157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent memory is a systems problem for long-horizon agents.
By Richmond Alake, Cesare Bernardis, Paul Cayet, Luca Engel, Damien Hilloulin, Sungpack Hong, Allen Hosler, Nickolas Kavantzas, Ingo Kossyk, Son Le, Rhicheek Patra, Kartik Talamadupula, Valentin Venzin
The paper introduces MERIT, a benchmark that evaluates the marginal benefit of long‑term memory for tool‑using large language model agents while explicitly accounting for cost. MERIT provides episodic tool‑use tasks across three domains, verifies dependence on earlier‑episode facts, and measures memory operations in tokens and dollars. Experiments on GPT‑4.1‑mini, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Sonnet 5 show that memory can significantly improve task success, but its utility varies widely across models and memory implementations, and full replay is rarely cost‑effective.
By Shweta Mishra, Shashank Mishra
arXiv:2608. 06329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task-oriented conversational agents are evaluated using curated or automatically generated benchmarks, yet benchmark quality is rarely assessed.
By Noam Koren, Roy Bar-Haim, Abigail Goldsteen
UTILMEM is a new diagnostic benchmark that tests how conversational agents use long‑term memory, focusing on reasoning over dense histories, spotting implicitly relevant memories, synthesizing distributed evidence, and resisting interference from similar distractors. It contains 1,717 instances across five domains and evaluates a range of retrieval‑based and memory‑augmented systems. The study shows that strong performance on traditional factual recall does not guarantee effective memory utilization, highlighting a gap between retrieving information and integrating it into coherent, task‑oriented outputs.
By Peijun Qing, Fobo Shi, Soroush Vosoughi