arXiv:2610.15642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Under a limited context budget, a long-term agent must recall not merely memories that are individually relevant, but evidence that is collectively suf...
By Qi Feng, Jicong Fan
The paper introduces QEMem, a framework that rethinks how large language model agents use long‑term memory by constructing query‑specific evidence sets rather than relying on individual memory relevance. QEMem combines query‑guided discovery, source‑grounded reification into structured ViewCards, and sufficiency‑guided refinement to assemble comprehensive evidence from multiple memory granularities. Experiments show that QEMem achieves 91.43% LLM‑judge accuracy on LoCoMo with Claude Opus 4.5, surpassing leading baselines by significant margins and improving evidence coverage for cross‑session queries.
By Shixuan Li, Wei Yang, Peiyu Zhang, Anzhe Cheng, Heng Ping, Xiaole Zhang, Jesse Thomason, Xuezhe Ma, Yue Zhao, Paul Bogdan
arXiv:2608. 19701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term multi-agent systems continuously accumulate the memories produced by different agents.
By Chenchen Lin, Wenhao Yuan, Xuehe Wang, Edith Cheuk Han Ngai
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
JustMem is a new memory system for long‑term conversational AI that stores conversation history as compact atomic memories and adapts its access strategy to each query. It introduces two dimensions of memory access—discovery breadth and reading fidelity—implemented through LOOKUP for local evidence, COMPOSE for distributed evidence, and REPLAY for fidelity‑sensitive evidence. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval‑S show that JustMem outperforms competing memory systems in accuracy and recall while using fewer generative‑model tokens for memory construction and inference.
By Guanhua Chen, Yanting Wang, Wenjing Zhi, Lei Sha
The paper introduces LatentStream, a progressive latent working memory framework for streaming video understanding that replaces the traditional store‑and‑retrieve paradigm with a retrieve‑and‑internalize approach. It organizes visual history into short, mid, and long‑term levels using Jenks‑guided adaptive consolidation, then expands memory receptive fields to iteratively retrieve and internalize evidence into a compact latent memory. A confidence‑guided optimization further refines this memory, leading to state‑of‑the‑art performance on online and offline video benchmarks.
By Hongyu Qu, Guangming Yao, Ling Xing, Xiaobin Hu, Rongxing Ding, Guibin Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yi Yuan, Xiangbo Shu, Shuicheng Yan
GraphMemix introduces a combinatorial‑optimization graph memory framework that organizes long‑term multimodal agent memory as query‑aware evidence forests. It constructs candidate graphs by expanding seed memories through schema and semantic relations, then decouples evidence utility from anchor‑conditioned relation verification to reduce redundancy, and finally optimizes a forest‑format memory context within a maximum evidence budget. Experiments on four benchmarks show significant accuracy gains and a new Pareto frontier between accuracy and lifecycle cost.
arXiv:2608. 10108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents accumulate trajectories spanning hundreds of interleaved reasoning, action, and observation steps, where answering a query may depend on evidence buried far back in the history.
By Beidi Zhao, Yaoqi Chen, Yuru Feng, Menghao Li, Qianxi Zhang, Baotong Lu, Jianan Lu, Zhirui Wang, Xinjiang Wang, Shusen Xu, Zengzhong Li, Xiaoxiao Li, Qi Chen
Long-term multi-agent systems continuously accumulate the memories produced by different agents. Existing memory methods typically treat retrieved memories as independent evidence and combine them through voting or weighting.
GraphMemix introduces a combinatorial‑optimization graph memory framework that constructs query‑aware evidence forests for long‑term multimodal agent memory. It expands seed memories via schema and semantic relations, decouples memory support from relation verification to reduce redundancy, and optimizes a forest‑format context within a maximum evidence budget. Experiments on four benchmarks show significant accuracy gains and a new Pareto frontier between accuracy and lifecycle cost.
By Geng Li, Yuhao Wang, Dong Li, Jianye Hao, Yuxin Peng
The paper introduces T‑Mem, a memory framework that uses temporal structure to manage long‑horizon multi‑party conversations. It employs Temporal Evidence Discovery to find locally concentrated evidence, Temporal Memory Structuring to model state transitions and compress low‑information spans, and Evidence Forest Linearization to serialize the evidence for answer generation. Experiments on two benchmarks show that T‑Mem outperforms existing memory frameworks across various settings.
By Junyou Guo, Chongyang Tao, Yan He, Yong Wang, Shuai Ma
The paper introduces LatentStream, a progressive latent working memory framework for streaming video understanding. It replaces the traditional store‑and‑retrieve approach with a retrieve‑and‑internalize strategy, organizing visual history into short, mid, and long‑term levels and progressively expanding memory receptive fields to internalize evidence into a compact latent memory. The method also employs confidence‑guided optimization to refine memory tokens, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on online and offline video benchmarks.