Memory systems for persistent personal agents must move beyond isolated memories, maintaining both personal memory about whom they serve and procedural memory about how to act. Crucially, in harness-b...
arXiv:2610.22671v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As assistants move from reactive answering toward proactive intervention, memory changes role: it no longer only supplies the answer to a query, it...
The paper introduces ProPerMem, a benchmark for memory-driven proactive assistance that pairs egocentric video with long, distractor-rich personal memories and human-verified trigger windows. Baseline models perform poorly, achieving at most 15% accuracy, while an oracle-driven GPT-5.3-Chat model reaches 96% when given evidence inside the trigger window. Building on these insights, the authors develop ProPerAgent, a plug‑and‑play system that retrieves relevant memory from a graph store and uses lightweight reinforcement learning to improve proactive intervention accuracy to 42.4% without training.
As assistants move from reactive answering toward proactive intervention, memory changes role: it no longer only supplies the answer to a query, it determines whether and when to speak at all. Prior w...
arXiv:2607. 09493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLM systems that generate code through multi-turn tool use face a fundamental context problem: each session starts from zero, discarding the configuration choices, domain constraints, data schemas, and tool-use patterns that made previous sessions productive.
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.
arXiv:2608. 02515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running assistants and agents consume interaction streams that eventually outgrow the context.
The paper introduces REM (Reusable Experience Memory), a framework that manages the lifecycle of experience for large language model agents performing long-horizon coding tasks. REM consolidates completed trajectories into compact, phase-structured documents, injects them at task start, and evicts them after a single exposure, making the memory system responsive to the agent’s needs. Experiments on repository-level bug fixing show REM outperforms state‑of‑the‑art memory systems in retrieval accuracy and task resolution while reducing cost.
MemCo introduces a memory‑centric collaboration framework that equips large language model agents with both local and global memory spaces. Local memory preserves environment‑specific details, while global memory captures transferable workflows from local trajectories. During online interaction, MemCo selectively routes relevant memories based on the agent’s state and decision phase, enabling reuse of other agents’ experiences without over‑generalizing environment‑specific information.
arXiv:2605. 18421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents mainly evaluate reasoning, planning, and execution.
AdaMem introduces adaptive memory policies that allow personalized agents to decide what information to write into long‑term memory based on user preferences for each interaction context. Each policy is updated from periodic feedback and controls subsequent memory writing, aiming to improve relevance and reduce unnecessary memory persistence. In experiments on AdaMem‑Bench, AdaMem raises QA accuracy from 80.0% to 84.35% while cutting persistent memory by 9.27%, though models still struggle to execute policies reliably.
The paper investigates how large language model (LLM) agents can improve performance by storing and reusing experience in external memory. It identifies a problem called error reproduction, where mistakes in stored abstractions propagate through cycles of abstraction, execution, and re-abstraction, leading to persistent errors. To mitigate this, the authors propose Anti-Persistence, a memory design that retains raw trajectories and outcomes but reconstructs task-specific guidance on demand, discarding it after use. Experiments across multiple benchmarks show that Anti-Persistence yields higher held‑out success rates and lower LLM‑call costs compared to other memory designs, supporting the idea of separating experience accumulation from abstraction persistence.