arXiv Machine Learning

Chronofy: A Temporal-Logical Decay Architecture for Information Validity in Time-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607. 20560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems retrieve and integrate external knowledge to ground large language model (LLM) outputs.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Time is Not a Label: Continuous Phase Rotation for Temporal Knowledge Graphs and Agentic Memory

The paper introduces RoMem, a temporal knowledge graph module that treats time as continuous phase rotation rather than discrete labels. RoMem uses a Semantic Speed Gate to assign volatility scores to relations, allowing evolving facts to rotate quickly while persistent facts remain stable, thereby preventing the need for deletion or costly LLM calls. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on ICEWS05‑15 and improves temporal reasoning in agentic memory benchmarks such as MultiTQ, LoCoMo, and FinTMMBench.

By Weixian Waylon Li, Jiaxin Zhang, Xianan Jim Yang, Tiejun Ma, Yiwen Guo
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 15

Taking the PULSE of Medical Reasoning: Step-Level Retrieval Timing for Knowledge-Grounded Inference

The paper introduces PUlSE, a lightweight probing method that uses a language model’s internal representations to decide when to retrieve external biomedical evidence during medical reasoning. By analyzing inter‑layer volatility, PUlSE identifies erroneous reasoning steps and triggers adaptive retrieval, achieving comparable accuracy to exhaustive retrieval while cutting retrieval calls by 72%. The approach also transfers to an unseen legal domain, suggesting broader applicability.

By Danyang Zhao, Sendong Zhao, Yanrui Du, Haochun Wang, Ming Ma, Wenhao Li, Jingbo Wang, Jiatong Liu, Bing Qin
arXiv AI
4d ago

CALM: Conflict-Aware Lifecycle Memory Governance for Long-Horizon Language Agents

CALM is a conflict‑aware lifecycle memory governance framework designed for long‑horizon language agents. It transforms heterogeneous records into evidence‑grounded memory cells, updates their validity and lifecycle states using support, conflict, and dependency signals, and admits query‑appropriate evidence through training‑free or learned gating based on temporal applicability. Experiments on LongMemEval‑S and LoCoMo with Qwen and GPT backbones show that CALM outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines, improves evidence selection, suppresses erroneous memories, and preserves superseded records for accurate earlier‑state reasoning.

By Chang Li, Xianhao Ou, Xinyan Ma, Hao Li, Haoyuan Xu, Jiafeng Liang, Xiaohan Wang, Jiajun Chai, Guojun Yin, Ming Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

Caching for the Future: Scrub Jay Episodic Memory Principles for Agent Memory Systems

LLM agents that persist across sessions accumulate stored memories whose validity varies enormously by content type, yet existing memory architectures treat all memories as equally persistent and systematically contaminate retrieved context with outdated facts. We show that per-memory, type-conditioned temporal decay, a property of western scrub jay episodic memory, can be operationalized as an auto-classified coefficient $π_i$ in an external LLM-agent memory store, yielding ScrubJay-MEM: each memory is encoded as a jointly-bound What--Where--When tuple with an estimated perishability $π_i$ and utility horizon $τ_i$, retrieved by query-adaptive scoring, and revised retroactively at $O(1)$ LLM calls per update.

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

From Retrieval to Reconstruction: Constructing Evolvable Cognitive Memory for Long-Term Dialogue

The paper introduces CogMem, a cognitive memory architecture for long‑term dialogue agents that uses a PEC$^2$F graph schema to separate claims, facts, and events. Dialogue turns are incrementally turned into provenance‑aware graph records, consolidated into higher‑level facts, and reconciled into temporally scoped claim views when conflicting updates arise. Retrieval is performed by a rule‑based controller that applies deterministic graph operators—anchoring, traversal, intersection, and evidence grounding—guided by LLM intent parsing, achieving strong performance on multi‑hop, temporal, and knowledge‑update tasks in LoCoMo and LongMemEval benchmarks.

By Zirui Liao, Zhengxian Wu, Zhuohong Chen, Yunyao Yu, Xiaoyu Liu, Yifan Xu, Haoqian Wang