The Living Library is an end‑to‑end framework that converts fragmented digital archives into governed, conversational exhibit experiences. Developed at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, it digitizes a 300,000‑record collection, enriches it with OCR and metadata, and publishes it to a hybrid dense/semantic index. The system supports curator review via the Archivist App, powers a researcher interface, and runs Talk to TR—a museum exhibit where a digital human embodiment of Theodore Roosevelt answers visitors’ questions using Cross‑Era Analogical Grounding and dual‑path retrieval to keep responses grounded and responsive.
arXiv:2605. 16972v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cultural heritage exhibitions often struggle to sustain attention and support reflective engagement.
AI systems increasingly need to combine two demanding capabilities: navigating multi-session conversation history and performing deep reading comprehension within long documents. Yet no existing benchmark evaluates both simultaneously.
arXiv:2606. 04442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems increasingly need to combine two demanding capabilities: navigating multi-session conversation history and performing deep reading comprehension within long documents.
TRACE is a training‑free, agentic retrieval framework that enables accountable source discovery in historical archives, addressing challenges such as OCR degradation and genre heterogeneity. Developed for the DECIDON project on French Third Republic political discourse, it is deployed internally for 24 researchers across six institutions. On the HistoriQA‑ThirdRepublic benchmark, TRACE achieves R@10 of 0.856 and MRR of 0.653, outperforming sparse, dense, graph‑based, and other agentic RAG baselines, especially on multi‑hop and cross‑corpus questions, while costing only about $0.02 per question.
Large language model agents have shown strong capabilities in generating coherent and contextually appropriate responses, yet robust long-horizon dialogue remains limited by the lack of external memory that is traceable, updatable, and diagnostically transparent. Existing memory-augmented agents often store memories as isolated records or overwritable states, making it difficult to preserve how information originates, evolves, conflicts, or becomes obsolete over time.
arXiv:2606. 03876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing prevalence of modern ubiquitous computing technologies, multi-modal tracking systems hold promise for providing timely awareness and reassurance to stakeholders such as remote family members (RFMs) of older adults, who play a central role in care coordination.
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:2606. 09846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual art remains largely inaccessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences due to brief or absent alt-text, which rarely conveys the sensory, spatial, or emotional qualities of an artwork.
arXiv:2607. 11039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Young job seekers frequently turn to social media to compare themselves with peers and make sense of career possibilities.
Vision-language models (VLMs) have made interactive digital museums increasingly feasible by connecting 3D digitization with natural-language artifact exploration. However, in cultural heritage domains such as ancient Greek pottery, reliable VLM assistance is limited by two challenges.
arXiv:2606. 07924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents our system description for the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via MultimodAl Retrieval (MAGMaR).
MIRAGE is a controlled study that examines how multimodal personal agents use historical evidence when conversation state changes. The study keeps evidence, questions, and scoring constant while varying only the conversation state, then checks if agents can determine answerability, recover the correct source, and answer from it. Results across seven multimodal backbones show distinct failure regimes before and after compaction, heavy reliance on context continuity by open-weight models, and mixed effects of retrieval pressure on source attribution.