arXiv AI

Learning How to Remember: Memory Modality Selection for GUI Agents

arXiv AI
Jun 8

Dual Latent Memory for Visual Multi-agent System

arXiv:2602. 00471v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Visual Multi-Agent Systems (VMAS) promise to enhance comprehensive abilities through inter-agent collaboration, empirical evidence reveals a counter-intuitive "scaling wall": increasing agent turns often degrades performance while exponentially inflating token costs.

By Xinlei Yu, Chengming Xu, Zhangquan Chen, Bo Yin, Cheng Yang, Yongbo He, Yihao Hu, Jiangning Zhang, Cheng Tan, Xiaobin Hu, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Harness the Memory: A Holistic Evaluation of Memory Substrates in Memory Agents

The paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 11 memory substrates for long‑horizon LLM agents, using a unified set of 26 performance and efficiency metrics across three backbone models and four benchmark suites. It finds that no single substrate consistently outperforms others; retrieval‑heavy substrates aid long‑context factual QA but can impair sequential decision‑making, and scalability can shift performance trade‑offs. The study demonstrates that selecting a memory substrate tailored to the operating regime yields better results than any fixed choice, offering empirical guidance for designing efficient, reliable, and regime‑aware long‑term memory systems.

By Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang, Yuchen Wu, Yankai Chen, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Wooseong Yang, Yiwei Yang, Henry Peng Zou, Hanrong Zhang, Ying Nian Wu, Haolun Wu, Kai-Wei Chang, Philip S. Yu, Xue Liu, Aylin Caliskan
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 21

MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

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 AI
2d ago

Learning to Learn from Multimodal Experience

The paper introduces AutoMMemo, a framework that lets agents automatically design memory mechanisms for learning from multimodal experience. Each memory mechanism is represented as an executable memo program that specifies how past episodes are stored, organized, and retrieved. Through iterative evaluation, reflection-guided mutation, and budget-aware tree search, AutoMMemo learns effective memory designs that improve agent performance on GUI/Web navigation and multimodal visual reasoning tasks while keeping token and interaction costs reasonable.

By Xingyu Sui, Weixiang Zhao, Yongxin Tang, Yanyan Zhao, Yang Wu, Dandan Tu, Bing Qin
arXiv AI
Oct 27

GUIFlow: Temporal Redundancy-Aware Incremental Inference for GUI Agents

GUIFlow is a framework that enables temporal redundancy‑aware incremental inference for GUI agents built on vision‑language models. By selectively updating computational states—such as position‑aligned KV states, vision encoder outputs, and language model drafts—across interaction steps, it allows cross‑step reuse of visual encoding, prefill, and decoding without extra training or model changes. Experiments show up to 3.39× speedup on offline benchmarks and 3.49× in online OSWorld interactions while preserving task performance.

By Ye Li, Haoran Ding, Huanan Liu, Yuan Meng, Yutian Shen, Yuansong Wang, Kangye Ji, Hanyun Cui, Hongbo Duan, Chen Tang, Jiawei Li, Shu-Tao Xia, Zhi Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 29

DMV-Bench: Diagnosing Long-Horizon Multimodal Agents' Visual Memory with Incidental Cue Injection

arXiv:2606. 27499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on agent memory has matured rapidly, but almost entirely on the text side: few existing benchmarks ask, in an interactive environment, when an agent genuinely needs to remember what it saw rather than what it could write down.

By Yujin Tang, Chenming Shang, Ruize Xu, Nikhil Singh