arXiv Computation and Language

PGMem: Tightly Coupled Persona-Memory Graph for Lifelong Personalized Agents

PGMem introduces a persona‑memory graph that tightly couples user persona signals with the events that support or revise them, using typed provenance and evidence edges. This design addresses gaps in existing memory systems where personas are stored as flat, detached profiles. Experiments on three benchmarks show that PGMem outperforms various baseline memory approaches, especially as dialogue context length increases.

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
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 Computation and Language
Oct 9

DPPM: Dual-Path Parametric Memory for Personalized Language Models

The paper introduces Dual-Path Parametric Memory (DPPM), a method for long‑term personalization of language models that leverages interaction history without requiring it in the inference context. DPPM uses two complementary paths: an Evidence path that pools historical representations to retain earlier evidence, and a Delta path that sequentially updates an associative state to capture changes. By fusing these outputs into history‑conditioned LoRA adapters, DPPM achieves superior performance on PersonaMem‑v2 (54.22%) and PrefEval (86.79%) compared to existing baselines.

By Yuhao Chen, Shuochen Liu, Jiayao Shi, Jian Hong, Chen Cheng, Xinyun Ding, Tao Wang, Ya Li, Quan Liu, Tong Xu
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

Event-Centric Memory with Query-Aware Graph Augmentation for Long-Term Conversational Agents

The paper introduces QGMem, a memory framework for conversational agents that organizes dialogue history into event-indexed atomic units and consolidates related units into dynamic memory traces. When a query is posed, QGMem retrieves complementary candidate memories, reranks them to form a compact working memory, and represents this working memory as a local graph to expose relational dependencies. Experiments on six benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements in retrieval, multi‑hop evidence composition, conflict resolution, and ultra‑long dialogue reasoning while keeping context size and inference cost moderate.

By Yichen Liu, Chunfeng Yuan, Haowei Liu, Wenjuan Li, Zefeng Lin, Bing Li, Xu Chen, Weiming Hu
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 Computation and Language
Aug 27

Learning What to Share and What to Personalize: Hierarchical Strategy Co-Evolution for Agent Memory

The paper introduces HiPS, a hierarchical strategy co‑evolution framework for memory‑augmented agents that separates memory management into a globally shared foundation and a user‑specific adaptive tier. HiPS uses a Universal Strategy to capture shared principles from cross‑persona trajectories, Persona Delta Distillation to create tailored rules for users deviating from general patterns, and Cross‑Level Rule Flow to dynamically adjust the boundary between global and personal rules. Experiments show that this approach consistently outperforms existing memory‑augmented baselines.

By Yupeng Han, Shuochen Liu, Kai Zhang, Ze Liu, Zhihong Pan, Xianquan Wang