arXiv AI

SLICE-Mem: Salience-Gated Lightweight Information Curation for Efficient LLM Agent Memory

arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

Harness the Memory: A Holistic Evaluation of Memory Substrates in Memory Agents

The paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 11 memory substrates for long‑horizon LLM agents, using a unified set of 26 performance and efficiency metrics across three backbone models and four benchmark suites. It finds that no single substrate consistently outperforms others; retrieval‑heavy substrates aid long‑context factual QA but can impair sequential decision‑making, and scalability can shift performance trade‑offs. The study demonstrates that selecting a memory substrate tailored to the operating regime yields better results than any fixed choice, offering empirical guidance for designing efficient, reliable, and regime‑aware long‑term memory systems.

By Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang, Yuchen Wu, Yankai Chen, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Wooseong Yang, Yiwei Yang, Henry Peng Zou, Hanrong Zhang, Ying Nian Wu, Haolun Wu, Kai-Wei Chang, Philip S. Yu, Xue Liu, Aylin Caliskan
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
Jul 16

Memory as a Controlled Process: Learned Adaptive Memory Management for LLM Agents

arXiv:2607. 13591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external memory systems to accumulate experience across tasks.

By Eric Hanchen Jiang, Zhi Zhang, Yuchen Wu, Levina Li, Dong Liu, Xiao Liang, Rui Sun, Yubei Li, Edward Sun, Haozheng Luo, Zhaolu Kang, Aylin Caliskan, Kai-Wei Chang, Ying Nian Wu
arXiv AI
Oct 5

DyadMem: A Long-Term Memory Benchmark of How Agents Work with Users

DyadMem introduces a new benchmark for evaluating how long‑term agents remember user‑specific relational information, called User‑conditioned Relational Agent Memory (URAM). The dataset contains 3,065 episodes, 50,961 sessions, and 61,210 QA pairs, with detailed annotations for memory capture, update, and recall across multi‑session trajectories. Experiments on 20 models show strong performance in a gold‑memory setting but a significant drop in full‑pipeline QA, highlighting gaps in current LLM memory capabilities.

By Yifei Tao, Xinyu Zhong, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Fanyi Wang, Tengda Guo, Wentao Qiu, Ying Wang, Liujian Tang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

RPMem: Learning Long-Term Recurrent Parametric Memory Across Sessions for LLM Agents

RPMem introduces a two‑stage architecture that compiles each session into a model‑independent latent memory and then consolidates it with retained memory via a task‑trained recurrent gate. The consolidated memory is mapped to backbone‑specific low‑rank adaptation (LoRA) parameters, enabling the memory to transfer when the backbone is replaced. Across three long‑term memory benchmarks and five diverse backbones, RPMem achieves broad generalization with near‑constant update cost and memory footprint, outperforming existing parametric and text‑based baselines on the PERMA benchmark.

By Fanyu Zhao, Ruike Cao, Liang Dong, Fugen Yao, Jian Xu, Guanjun Jiang, Han Zhang, Yifei Zhao, Yinsheng Li