arXiv:2605. 12213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based conversational AI agents struggle to maintain coherent behavior over long horizons due to limited context.
By Jiazhou Liang, Armin Toroghi, Yifan Simon Liu, Faeze Moradi Kalarde, Liam Gallagher, Scott Sanner
arXiv:2606. 06036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress, LLM agents still struggle with reasoning over long interaction histories.
By Shuo Ji, Yibo Li, Bryan Hooi
RuleMem is a rule-based memory framework designed for long-term conversational agents. It generates natural-language Horn clauses from dialogue histories and validates them with a Rule Perplexity Consistency mechanism, enabling active guidance of evidence retrieval and reasoning. In evaluations on LoCoMo and LongMemEval_s*, RuleMem outperformed 14 baselines, achieving the highest accuracy on LoCoMo with a 27.47‑point absolute gain (54.3% relative improvement).
By Xingyuan Zeng, Zuohan Wu, Quanming Yao, Yue Wang, Wei Liu, Libin Zheng, Jiuke Wang, Jian Yin
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
The paper introduces AMA, a framework that uses multiple agents—Constructor, Retriever, Judge, and Refresher—to manage memory for large language model agents. AMA’s hierarchical memory design dynamically adjusts retrieval granularity to match task complexity, while the Judge and Refresher ensure relevance, consistency, and timely updates. Experiments on long-context benchmarks show AMA outperforms existing baselines and cuts token usage by about 80% compared to full-context approaches.
By Weiquan Huang, Zixuan Wang, Hehai Lin, Sudong Wang, Bo Xu, Qian Li, Beier Zhu, Linyi Yang, Chengwei Qin
arXiv:2606. 28349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context reasoning requires models to access, retrieve, and integrate evidence scattered across documents, dialogues, and accumulated interaction histories.
By Zeju Li, Ziyang Zheng, Yizhou Zhou, Qiang Xu
arXiv:2608. 05095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents for long term reasoning require a memory that can be efficiently and effectively updated over time, as new facts and external feedback continue to arrive.
By Xiawei Yue, Boran Wang, Xiaoqing Zhang, Shuxin Zheng, Ziwei Zhang
arXiv:2601. 21714v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) agents towards System~2 reasoning, characterized by deliberative, high-precision problem-solving, requires maintaining rigorous logical integrity over extended horizons.
By Kaixiang Wang, Yidan Lin, Jiong Lou, Zhaojiacheng Zhou, Bunyod Suvonov, Jie Li
Long-lived AI agents require continuity across interactions, but continuity cannot be obtained by simply extending the prompt window. An agent must preserve useful prior experience, retrieve it selectively, distinguish personal context from external evidence, and revise memory when the underlying situation changes.
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:2607. 16716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and LLM-based agents are widely used as personal chat assistants, enterprise copilots, and autonomous workflow agents.
By Mihir Shriniwas Arya
arXiv:2606. 12852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid advances have been made in developing general-purpose embodied agent in environments like Minecraft through the adoption of LLM-augmented hierarchical approaches.
By Renmin Cheng (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology), Changhao Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology)