MemFuseBench is a benchmark for multi‑source memory fusion that generates source‑tagged observations, evidence‑grounded questions, and adversarial distractors using a Scene‑to‑Sensor pipeline. The proposed MemFuse system preserves source‑level evidence in atomic memory and clusters related events into fused memory via a causal fusion graph, enabling traceable retrieval of dispersed observations. Experiments show that MemFuse outperforms other memory systems across all LLM settings, especially on questions requiring cross‑source evidence fusion.
By Chao Li, Yuanfa Li, Wenhao Wu, Xule Liu, Zhi Wang, Kun Shao
MemoryLACE (MemLACE) is a lightweight memory framework that explicitly models the lifecycle of textual evidence—capturing sparse merge, supersession, and contradiction relations—while preserving atomic natural‑language memories and their provenance. Unlike traditional systems that retrieve memories independently, MemLACE reconstructs relation‑aware evidence units that expose current, historical, supporting, and conflicting evidence for downstream reasoning. In benchmark evaluations (BEAM and StructMemEval) using both open‑weight and proprietary LLM backbones, MemLACE achieves the highest overall performance among same‑backbone comparisons and reduces BEAM runtime by 66.6% compared to the strongest reflective‑memory baseline, Hindsight.
By Meriem Yacoubi, Pia Schmidt, Nenad Petrovic, Ahmed Frikha, Martin Kirchhoff, Alois Knoll
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
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. 03463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory is essential for LLM-based agents to sustain interactions and reliably leverage distant history.
By Yuxin Liao, Le Wu, Min Hou, Hao Liu, Han Wu, Zishu Wang
MemCoRe is a memory system for large language model agents that organizes factual knowledge into a compression hierarchy, progressively reducing redundancy while preserving retrieval structure. The hierarchy compresses detailed records into keywords and then into topic groups, allowing evidence to be located by searching across levels. Experiments show that MemCoRe outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art baselines in retrieving relevant evidence for downstream reasoning.
By Zhenyuan Zhang, Xianzhang Jia, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenbo Song, Wei Xue, Sirui Han, Yike Guo
arXiv:2609.00551v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal memory offers a scalable interface for long-video question answering, but existing methods often retrieve captions, frames, transcripts, s...
By Yijun Chen, Yaqi Zheng, Yanya Li, Boyi Xiao, Buqiang Xu, Shuofei Qiao, Jizhan Fang, Xinle Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Xuehai Wang, Liuxin Zhang, Hui Li, Huajun Chen, Shumin Deng
arXiv:2605. 28831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon memory question answering often requires sparse evidence from heterogeneous histories, including events, object states, visual observations, temporal relations, and causal steps.
By Encheng Su, Jianyu Wu, Jinouwen Zhang, Qiucheng Yu, Chen Tang, Pengze Li, Lintao Wang, Aoran Wang, Xinzhu Ma, Shixiang Tang, Yizhou Wang, Houqiang Li
Large language model (LLM)-based search agents answer questions through multi-step interactions with external environments. However, providing complete execution trajectories to the LLM causes unbounded context growth and introduces noise.
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: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
arXiv:2608. 10676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based search agents answer questions through multi-step interactions with external environments.
By Aijun Yang, Qianxue Guo, Ziyi Huang, Yuxuan Chen, Shiyou Qian, Jian Cao