Memory has emerged as a cornerstone of modern LLM-based agents, supporting their evolution from single-turn assistants to long-term collaborators. However, memory is not always beneficial: retrieved memories often induce a critical issue of sycophancy, causing agents to over-align with the user at the cost of factual accuracy or objective reasoning.
arXiv:2605. 18421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents mainly evaluate reasoning, planning, and execution.
By Yuyao Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Mo Chi, Kaichi Yu, Yuhan Li, Miao Peng, Bing Tong, Chen Zhang, Yan Zhou, Jia Li
arXiv:2607. 12385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A significant challenge in agentic AI is prospective memory: the ability to execute an intention at a specific future cue or state while other activities are ongoing.
By Genglin Liu, Saadia Gabriel
arXiv:2606. 06054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents increasingly rely on long-term memory to provide persistent personalization across sessions.
By Jiawen Zhang, Kejia Chen, Jiachen Ma, Yangfan Hu, Lipeng He, Yechao Zhang, Jian Liu, Xiaohu Yang, Tianwei Zhang, Ruoxi Jia
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:2606. 17328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly maintain long-term memory of user facts across sessions.
By Xianxuan Long, Zhikai Chen, Shenglai Zeng, Shouren Wang, Kai Guo, Jiliang Tang
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.
By Zhe Ren, Yibo Yang, Yimeng Chen, Zijun Zhao, Benshuo Fu, Zhihao Shu, Bingjie Zhang, Yangyang Xu, Dandan Guo, Shuicheng Yan
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. 14571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central role of personal-agent memory is to turn stored information and prior interactions into future-oriented assistance.
By Guanming Liu, Yuqi Ren, Hansu Gu, Peng Zhang, Weihang Wang, Jiahao Liu, Ning Gu, Tun Lu
arXiv:2608. 01285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continued development of LLMs toward persistent and adaptive intelligence increasingly requires long-term memory mechanisms that preserve and reuse information across interactions.
By Yidan Lin, Kaixiang Wang, Jiong Lou, Jie Li
Persistent memory has enabled large language model (LLM) agents to store factual knowledge, prior decisions, reasoning histories, tool usage information, and context. While this has improved the agent's functionality and continuity across tasks, it has also introduced a new attack surface: the agent's own reasoning history.
arXiv:2606. 07909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) agents can use external tools to help users solve complex tasks.
By Suleyman Armagan Er, Danilo Ribeiro, Yogesh Virkar, Surafel Lakew, Adi Kalyanpur, James Gung, Thomas Delteil, Arshit Gupta