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CompCQR: Compositional Query Generation for Training-Free Conversational Search

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
Aug 11

TreeHop: Efficient Embedding-Level Query Rewriter

arXiv:2504. 20114v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face significant challenges in multi-hop question answering (MHQA), where complex queries require synthesizing information across multiple document chunks.

By Zhonghao Li, Kunpeng Zhang, Jinghuai Ou, Shuliang Liu, Xuming Hu
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

Rethinking How to Remember: Beyond Atomic Facts in Lifelong LLM Agent Memory

The paper introduces TriMem, a memory system for lifelong LLM agents that stores raw dialogue segments, extracted atomic facts, and synthesized profiles to preserve detail, enable efficient retrieval, and support deep reasoning. It uses TextGrad-based prompt optimization to iteratively refine extraction and profiling prompts without updating model parameters. Experiments on LoCoMo and PerLTQA show TriMem outperforms strong memory baselines across multiple LLM backbones.

By Jingwei Sun, Jianing Zhu, Jiangchao Yao, Tongliang Liu, Bo Han
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

Entity-Memory Graph Retrieval Improves Evidence Coverage in Long-Conversation Question Answering

Entity-Memory graph retrieval preserves dialogue turns as verbatim memory nodes, links repeated mentions via shared entities, and connects adjacent memories with chronological edges. During retrieval, the system gates through entities, fuses semantics, and performs one‑hop chronological recovery before dense backfill, allowing it to keep neighboring memories that dense cosine ranking might miss. On 1,986 questions from ten LoCoMo conversations, this graph retrieval method increases official evidence recall at top‑k 25 from 79.7468 % to 84.4842 %, with the advantage extending from top‑k 5 to 50, though it does not improve overall final‑answer F1.

By Shumao Sun
arXiv AI
Sep 4

When Users Don't Ask: Benchmarking Context-Driven Memory Retrieval in Conversational Agents

The paper introduces LOCOMO-CONV, a conversational memory benchmark that expands on the existing LoCoMo dataset with four query styles—dialog, implicit, counterfactual, and composed—designed to evaluate memory systems in realistic conversational settings. Experiments across five memory systems reveal that conversational framing uncovers significant retrieval gaps missed by traditional QA benchmarks, particularly for implicit and composed queries, and that strong retrieval does not necessarily translate into higher response quality. The study also highlights silent grounding in implicit queries, where memory enhances contextual grounding without explicitly presenting the gold fact, suggesting a need for reasoning-based memory elaboration.

By Wen-Yu Chang, Yun-Nung Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 17

One Size Does Not Fit All! Dynamic Retriever and Generator Selection for RAG

The paper introduces DRAG, a query‑adaptive framework that jointly selects retriever and generator configurations for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Two variants are presented: DRAG_QPP, a training‑free routing method using Query Performance Prediction and perplexity signals, and DRAG_SFT, a supervised approach that fine‑tunes an LLM to predict configurations. Experiments on three LLM families and four QA benchmarks show that DRAG_QPP matches strong static baselines while cutting inference latency, and DRAG_SFT consistently outperforms both static and training‑free adaptive baselines, demonstrating a better effectiveness‑efficiency trade‑off.

By Neeraj Anand, Payel Santra, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Debasis Ganguly, Sumit Bhatia
arXiv AI
Oct 19

From Memory Hits to Answerable Evidence: Query-Conditioned Memory Compilation for Long-Term Agent Memory

The paper introduces MemCompile, a query‑conditioned evidence compilation framework designed to improve long‑term conversational memory. It uses an Address Plane to locate relevant support via compact descriptors and capacity‑aware cells, then normalizes retrieval hits into stable SourcePacket identities. An Evidence Plane allocates a bounded evidence budget across packets, admits limited additional support, and produces answer‑ready context, achieving 80.52% Judge Accuracy on LoCoMo and improving the quality‑cost Pareto frontier.

By Shangze Li, Yanyu Yao, Derong Xu, Zhi Zheng, Tong Xu