arXiv AI

What Should an Agent Forget? Separating What Is Stored from What Is Used

The paper introduces RD-Forget, a training‑free framework that separates what a persistent language agent stores from what it uses at answer time. It keeps a source archive of all observations while a query‑conditioned memory view filters evidence relevant to the current question, using a frozen language‑model curator to group facts into semantic slots and preserve multi‑hop relations. The approach employs rate‑distortion principles to stay within a memory budget and demonstrates improvements across conversational memory, knowledge updating, fact consolidation, long‑context reasoning, and personalization tasks.

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 16

TEM: Temporal State Tracking Memory for Large Language Model Agents

The paper introduces Temporal State Tracking Memory (TEM), a training‑free framework that stores facts as versioned records linked to their sources and retrieves the relevant versions in source order, labeling historical records before passing them to the answer model. TEM incorporates event memory and original dialogue turns to fill gaps in structured facts. Evaluations on 420 questions from 600 sessions with 60 personas show high key‑entity hit rates (75.71–97.62%) and significant improvements when historical labels are added, while keeping evidence compact (94–118 tokens per answer).

By Pengfeng Song, Yunkai Zhuang, Liye Shi
arXiv AI
Sep 10

AMA: Adaptive Memory via Multi-Agent Collaboration

The paper introduces AMA, a framework that uses multiple agents—Constructor, Retriever, Judge, and Refresher—to manage memory for large language model agents. AMA’s hierarchical memory design dynamically adjusts retrieval granularity to match task complexity, while the Judge and Refresher ensure relevance, consistency, and timely updates. Experiments on long-context benchmarks show AMA outperforms existing baselines and cuts token usage by about 80% compared to full-context approaches.

By Weiquan Huang, Zixuan Wang, Hehai Lin, Sudong Wang, Bo Xu, Qian Li, Beier Zhu, Linyi Yang, Chengwei Qin
arXiv AI
Oct 5

APDMem: Agent-Controlled Progressive Disclosure for Query-Adaptive Long-Term Memory

APDMem is a hierarchical long‑term memory system for personalized LLM assistants that uses progressive disclosure to retrieve conversation history. It organizes memory into four layers—thematic summaries, personalized key facts, turn‑level evidence notes, and raw messages—and a controller reads from the top layer, drilling down only when necessary. This approach balances cost and fidelity, allowing simple queries to finish early while deeper inspection is triggered for complex or exact‑evidence requests, and a note synthesizer structures retrieved evidence before answer generation. Experiments on LongMemEval show APDMem performs strongly while accessing only 8% of the total conversations.

By Chin-Lun Fu, Anagha Kulkarni, Hong Ni, Behrouz Madahian
arXiv AI
Sep 10

EdgeMem: LLM-Free Agent Memory Construction and Retrieval via Evidence-Preserving Multi-Anchor Hypergraph

EdgeMem is a new agent-memory method that preserves original interaction turns and organizes them using complementary content, temporal, and episodic cues via a multi‑anchor hypergraph. It performs lightweight local processing, returning source evidence directly and reserving LLM use only for final answer generation. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval‑S demonstrate strong retrieval and memory‑grounded question answering, with EdgeMem achieving the highest strict‑judge score among seven systems on LoCoMo while requiring no generative‑LLM calls for construction and retrieval.

By Zeyang Cui, Jiannong Cao, Zhiyuan Wen, Bo Yuan, Junlan Feng, Shengyuan Chen
arXiv AI
Oct 2

CAVE-Mem: Boundary-Aware Experience Validation for Memory Search

CAVE-Mem is a training‑free framework that enhances memory search for long‑term memory agents by treating experience as a typed intervention operator with conditions on applicability, boundary, and utility. It first retrieves a base answer and then only applies an intervention if the operator matches the current memory substrate, answer contract, evidence boundary, and cross‑fitted utility; otherwise it abstains. Experiments on conversational memory, multi‑hop QA, and long‑document reasoning demonstrate consistent improvements over relevance‑only experience reuse.

By Xinyu Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

Where to Look and What to Use: Retrieve-Localize-Generate for Long-Term Conversational Memory Question Answering

arXiv:2609.07093v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to answer questions by accessing external knowledge and has been widely a...

By Yifan Wang, Xinkui Lin, Yongxiu Xu, Shen Gao, Ruochen Yang, Kun Huang, Yubin Wang, Jie Wu, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Shang
arXiv AI
Oct 7

AMBER: Training Long-Horizon Web Agents through Append-Only Memory

The paper introduces AMBER, an append‑only memory framework for language‑model agents that interact over long horizons. AMBER lets agents jointly learn to reason, act, and write free‑form memory, guaranteeing retention by construction and enabling end‑to‑end reinforcement learning without extensive curated data. Experiments on WebArena Lite show AMBER outperforms overwrite‑based memory by 4.09 percentage points in average success and improves task completion rates in repeated runs.

By Chinmay Savadikar, Zhaoyu Zhang, Mingyu Zhao, Shuang Xie, Han Li, Tianfu Wu, Lingyun Wang
arXiv AI
Oct 2

What Should an Agent Remember? Disentangling Retention from Retrieval in Bounded-Memory Evaluation

The paper introduces a streaming-recall benchmark that separates retention and selection decisions for persistent agents. It shows that query‑aware selection boosts recall by 15.5 points when access is fixed, while mixed comparisons inflate gains due to changes in history access. The study finds that under bounded retention, failures stem from eviction rather than ranking errors, and that dense retrieval can outperform lexical retrieval on natural text.

By Juli Huang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Agent Zero Memory: Provenance-Aware Long-Term Memory for LLM Agents

Agent Zero Memory is a provenance‑aware long‑term memory system for large language model agents that distills user interactions into three parallel memory structures: an episodic timeline, an associative entity‑event knowledge graph, and a semantic, citation‑locked hierarchical documentary memory. Retrieval is performed via an intent gate, source router, and concurrent searches across the three systems, producing integrated, cited answers that exclude fabrication and require evidence the reader has opened. The system achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LongMemEval (95.60%) and LoCoMo (93.60%) while offering a favorable accuracy‑cost‑latency trade‑off across multiple backbone LLMs.

By Ming Wu, Pengyuan Zhu