arXiv AI
Aug 10
TEPA: Revoking Stale Memories for Conflict-Robust Language Agents
arXiv:2608. 07429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory enables language agents to reuse past facts, preferences, and task experience.
The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents
The paper investigates how persistent memory in AI agents can lead to over‑trust in stale facts, creating a "Memory Trust Gap" that worsens as model capability increases. Using a benchmark with Benefit and Safety suites across Qwen3 models of varying sizes, the authors show that larger models are more prone to harmful over‑trust, especially when metadata is absent or misleading. They also demonstrate that mitigation strategies such as exposing metadata or pre‑resolving conflicts improve accuracy, but the effectiveness depends on model size and dataset.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25
Reclaim Evaluation: A Lossy Memory Is Worse Than an Empty One
arXiv:2606. 25449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A language model's memory can be worse than having no memory at all.
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27
When Stale Constraints Go Unchecked: Budgeted Verification Failures in Inherited Agent Memory
The paper investigates how agents that inherit consolidated memory can mistakenly rely on constraints that were once true but have since been superseded by newer records. By modeling supersession explicitly and limiting verification to two records, the study shows that native allocation often leads to stale-consistent decisions, while reallocating one verification slot to the critical provenance path markedly improves consistency. The results suggest that memory systems may need separate freshness or supersession signals beyond relevance to avoid such errors.
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Jun 24
Reclaim Evaluation: A Lossy Memory Is Worse Than an Empty One
A language model's memory can be worse than having no memory at all. Give a model a memory that kept a wrong conclusion but dropped the work behind it, and it emits that stale value as a confident answer; give the same model an empty memory and it abstains.
arXiv AI
Aug 14
Governed Persistent Memory: Source-Bound State Semantics and Fail-Closed Release for Long-Horizon Agents
arXiv:2608. 12476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term agent memory is usually treated as select--store--retrieve, but retrieval does not decide whether contradictory, superseded, retracted, deleted, or stale records may support an outgoing claim.
arXiv AI
Aug 24
Temporal Validity on Real Software Histories: Eliminating Stale-Fact Errors in Code-Assistant Memory over GitHub Fixes
The paper evaluates a deterministic supersession memory, MemStrata, for retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) systems on real software history. Using 707 GitHub issues, the authors extracted 130 clean atomic state transitions where a single value changes from pre‑fix to post‑fix. MemStrata achieved 0.91 answer accuracy versus 0.57–0.59 for standard RAG, eliminating stale‑fact errors that RAG returned 36–38% of the time, while maintaining comparable retrieval latency.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Don't Ask the LLM to Track Freshness: A Deterministic Recipe for Memory Conflict Resolution
arXiv:2606. 01435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based memory systems increasingly maintain facts that evolve over time, where a recurring failure is conflict resolution: when a fact has multiple contradictory values, which should the agent return?
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Injection-Execution Dissociation: A Mechanistic Evaluation of Persistent Memory Attacks and Defenses in Stateful LLM Agents
arXiv:2605. 08442v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We discover that prompt-injection success and tool-execution success are separable safety properties: defenses that block injection do not necessarily block execution, and vice versa.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
Deployment-Time Memorization in Foundation-Model Agents
arXiv:2606. 10062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model agents are increasingly long-lived systems that remember users across interactions, making memorization an explicit deployment-time function rather than solely a property of model weights.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
memorywire: A Vendor-Neutral Wire Format for Agent Memory Operations
arXiv:2606. 01138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent-memory frameworks -- mem0, Letta/MemGPT, Cognee, Zep/Graphiti, MemoryOS, MemTensor -- each ship their own SDK, storage layout, and operational vocabulary.
arXiv AI
Jul 28
ConsistencyGate: Preventing Memory Contamination in LLM Agents via Self-Consistency Admission Control
arXiv:2607. 22962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents that operate over many turns accumulate facts in an external memory store and reuse them as premises for downstream reasoning.
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 21
Remember, Verify, or Ask? Cross-Family Evaluation of Memory Commitment in LLM Agents
arXiv:2608. 19564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior.