arXiv AI

Can Agents Truly Forget? Explore Machine Unlearning for LLM Agents

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Evaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions

arXiv:2507. 05257v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily focus on evaluating reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities, while another critical component-memory, encompassing how agents memorize, update, and retrieve long-term information-is under-evaluated due to the lack of benchmarks.

By Yuanzhe Hu, Yu Wang, Julian McAuley
arXiv AI
Sep 15

K-Bench: A Benchmark for LLM Unlearning in Agentic Deployments

K-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) unlearning when the models are deployed as agents. Unlike previous benchmarks that only inspect the final answer, K-Bench examines all six channels of a ReAct agent—including chain-of-thought, tool calls, tool observations, and elicited summaries—to determine if a secret is leaked. The benchmark measures leakage for secrets placed in the model weights, prompt, or retrieval store, and finds that many existing unlearning methods fail to prevent leaks in deployed agents, especially when secrets reside in the prompt or retrieval store.

By Guangsheng Yu, Yanna Jiang, Qin Wang, Baihe Ma, Xu Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 21

MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

MemoryArena is a new evaluation gym that benchmarks agent memory in interdependent multi‑session tasks. Unlike prior benchmarks that test memorization or single‑session action in isolation, MemoryArena requires agents to acquire memory while interacting with the environment and then use that memory to guide future decisions across a range of tasks such as web navigation, planning, information search, and formal reasoning. The benchmark reveals that agents excelling on existing long‑context memory tests perform poorly here, highlighting a gap in current memory evaluation methods.

By Zexue He, Yu Wang, Churan Zhi, Yuanzhe Hu, Tzu-Ping Chen, Lang Yin, Ze Chen, Tong Arthur Wu, Siru Ouyang, Zihan Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Julian McAuley, Yejin Choi, Alex Pentland
arXiv AI
Oct 7

DAEDALUS: Bootstrapping Agent Memory from Self-Generated Tasks

DAEDALUS is a method that builds reusable memory for large‑language‑model agents by having an explorer agent generate self‑created tasks and a solver agent attempt them. When the solver fails, a heuristic is extracted and only accepted after repeated successful use, then added to a memory bank for future test‑time use. Experiments on AppWorld, τ²‑bench, and AutomationBench show that DAEDALUS raises mean success rates by up to 15.9 points and pass⁵ by up to 2.2× compared to a no‑memory baseline, while also providing a cost‑effective alternative to training‑task or oracle‑verifier approaches.

By Antoine Edy, Max Conti, Victor Xing, Marc-Antoine Allard, Nawfal Benhamdane, Gautier Viaud
arXiv AI
Aug 6

A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2602. 06052v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research in artificial intelligence is shifting from model innovations and benchmark scores towards problem definition and rigorous real-world evaluation.

By Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang, Yueqing Liang, Yuanchen Bei, Yankai Chen, Tao Feng, Xinyu Pan, Zhen Tan, Yu Wang, Tianxin Wei, Shanglin Wu, Ruiyao Xu, Liangwei Yang, Rui Yang, Wooseong Yang, Chin-Yuan Yeh, Hanrong Zhang, Haozhen Zhang, Siqi Zhu, Henry Peng Zou, Wanjia Zhao, Song Wang, Wujiang Xu, Zixuan Ke, Zheng Hui, Dawei Li, Yaozu Wu, Langzhou He, Chen Wang, Xiongxiao Xu, Baixiang Huang, Juntao Tan, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Ahmed A. Metwally, Jun Yan, Chen-Yu Lee, Hanqing Zeng, Yinglong Xia, Xiaokai Wei, Ali Payani, Yu Wang, Haitong Ma, Wenya Wang, Chenguang Wang, Yu Zhang, Xin Eric Wang, Yongfeng Zhang, Jiaxuan You, Hanghang Tong, Xiao Luo, Xue Liu, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang, Julian McAuley, James Zou, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu, Kai Shu