arXiv AI

Beyond Retrieval: Analytic Memory for Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2607. 29440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term multimodal memory must support not only retrieving relevant information but also computing over observations accumulated across interactions.

arXiv AI
Sep 24

EnSIMem: Entity-Structured Indexing for Long-Term Agent Memory

EnSIMem is an entity‑structured long‑term memory architecture designed for agents that interact with users over extended periods. It organizes interactions into theme‑coherent episodes and creates dialogue‑grounded index entries of the form [entity][entity type][property:value], preserving source turns, temporal data, and multimodal fields. During online interaction, the agent decomposes requests into evidence requirements, performs entity‑property lookup, and retrieves the necessary evidence to generate responses directly from preserved source material rather than lossy summaries.

By Xuanyu Meng, Xing Fan, Xinyi Fan, Chenlei Guo, Yixuan Xie, Jiawei Han
arXiv AI
Jul 8

From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space

arXiv:2607. 05794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term user memory is essential for personalized conversational agents, yet many memory systems still expose memory through passive retrieval interfaces, making the model a consumer of pre-selected evidence.

By Yue Xu, Yutao Sun, Yihao Liu, Mengyu Zhou, Jiayi Qiao, Lu Ma, Kai Tang, Wenjie Wang, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun Jiang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

EdgeMem: LLM-Free Agent Memory Construction and Retrieval via Evidence-Preserving Multi-Anchor Hypergraph

EdgeMem is a new agent-memory method that preserves original interaction turns and organizes them using complementary content, temporal, and episodic cues via a multi‑anchor hypergraph. It performs lightweight local processing, returning source evidence directly and reserving LLM use only for final answer generation. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval‑S demonstrate strong retrieval and memory‑grounded question answering, with EdgeMem achieving the highest strict‑judge score among seven systems on LoCoMo while requiring no generative‑LLM calls for construction and retrieval.

By Zeyang Cui, Jiannong Cao, Zhiyuan Wen, Bo Yuan, Junlan Feng, Shengyuan Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

H2HMem: A Multimodal Memory Benchmark for Agents in Human-Human Interactions

Large language model agents are increasingly deployed in human-human interaction settings, such as meeting assistants and clinical documentation systems, where they must observe conversations and retain information for downstream queries. Unlike traditional human-assistant settings, these environments are inherently multimodal, involve complex discourse phenomena such as anaphora and deixis, and contain asynchronous or conflicting information from multiple participants.

arXiv AI
3d ago

MemLife: Curating and Reasoning over Long-Term Egocentric Video Memories

arXiv:2609.40195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term egocentric video enables personalized AI assistants to reason about daily life. However, as video histories grow to hundreds of hours spann...

By Guangzhi Xiong, Xinyuan Zhang, Xiao Yang, Hyokun Yun, Kai Zhang, Shiun-Zu Kuo, Hyeonjeong Ha, Xilun Chen, Kai Sun, Lucas Liang, Guangqiang Dong, Ejaz Ahmed, Ahmed A Aly, Anuj Kumar, Raffay Hamid, Aidong Zhang, Xin Luna Dong
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

UTILMEM: Benchmarking Evidence Utilization in Long-Term Conversational Memory

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
arXiv AI
2d ago

MemFit: Efficient Long-Term Agentic Memory

MemFit is a long‑term memory system designed for conversational agents that stores each dialogue turn verbatim in an append‑only store, enabling near‑instantaneous, LLM‑free insertion. It indexes turns using segment summaries and employs an LLM‑free, multi‑path retrieval strategy that blends lexical and semantic signals with cross‑encoder reranking over caption‑augmented episodes. Experiments on LoCoMo, MemGallery, and LongMemEval‑S demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance while drastically reducing memory construction time and cost.

By Mitchell Piehl, Muchao Ye
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Evaluating Memory Structure in LLM Agents

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