Most AI memory systems keep the newest information—not the most important. Here's how I used the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to build a better memory engine for LLMs.
Most coding agents treat prompt construction like retrieval: gather more files, add more context, hope the model figures it out. But that approach breaks down fast.
arXiv:2608. 02515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running assistants and agents consume interaction streams that eventually outgrow the context.
LLMs don’t fail because they forget—they fail because they remember too much. As conversations grow, prompts accumulate redundant and low-value tokens, driving up cost and latency while silently degrading output quality.
arXiv:2607. 22562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing long-context dependencies remains a primary bottleneck in LLM agents, as redundant and irrelevant information can degrade multi-step reasoning.
arXiv:2606. 18829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory benchmarks for LLM agents largely assume single-user settings, leaving shared assistants for hospitals, workplaces, campuses, and households understudied.
Every hand-off in your multi-agent pipeline is an expensive tokenization round-trip. Discover how Inductive Latent Context Persistence (ILCP) transfers a compressed hidden state so downstream agents never have to re-create the same context.
Long-term memory has become increasingly important for LLM agents that operate across extended interactions and evolving task contexts. Recent memory systems have made past experiences more persistent, compact, and retrievable, but retrieval alone does not ensure that a memory provides valid evidence for the current query.
arXiv:2606. 05646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have enabled powerful software engineering (SE) agents capable of navigating complex codebases and resolving real-world issues.
arXiv:2608. 01742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-term memory is critical for LLM agents operating over long-horizon interactions.
arXiv:2607. 01523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recurrent memory agents extend LLMs to arbitrarily long contexts by iteratively consolidating input into a fixed-size memory window.
We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), a continual-learning architecture that repre? sents inputs as sparse relational codes, stores them in a two-tier competitive memory, and learns through local updates without end-to-end backpropagation through its feature-generating system.
Increasing context size in RAG systems doesn’t improve accuracy for aggregation tasks—it makes errors harder to detect. In this article, I benchmark retrieval-based pipelines against a deterministic full-scan engine across 100,000 rows and show why computation queries must be routed away from RAG entirely.