arXiv AI

AMA: Adaptive Memory via Multi-Agent Collaboration

The paper introduces AMA, a framework that uses multiple agents—Constructor, Retriever, Judge, and Refresher—to manage memory for large language model agents. AMA’s hierarchical memory design dynamically adjusts retrieval granularity to match task complexity, while the Judge and Refresher ensure relevance, consistency, and timely updates. Experiments on long-context benchmarks show AMA outperforms existing baselines and cuts token usage by about 80% compared to full-context approaches.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Evaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions

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 AI
Oct 21

M-Plan: Comprehensive Planning For LLM Agents with Memory Arrangement

M-Plan is a closed‑loop multi‑agent system that combines long‑term and short‑term memory to improve large language model agents on long‑horizon, multi‑turn tasks. It uses task‑specific milestones and local hints to generate global‑local guidance, forming short‑term memory during execution, and then optimizes and stores relevant information in long‑term memory for future use. Experiments on ALFWorld, Webshop, and PDDL show that M‑Plan outperforms baseline methods in both accuracy and efficiency.

By Ziyang Liu, Jiakang Yuan, Jiayuan Fan, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 11

What Should an Agent Forget? Separating What Is Stored from What Is Used

The paper introduces RD-Forget, a training‑free framework that separates what a persistent language agent stores from what it uses at answer time. It keeps a source archive of all observations while a query‑conditioned memory view filters evidence relevant to the current question, using a frozen language‑model curator to group facts into semantic slots and preserve multi‑hop relations. The approach employs rate‑distortion principles to stay within a memory budget and demonstrates improvements across conversational memory, knowledge updating, fact consolidation, long‑context reasoning, and personalization tasks.

By Yuhang Li, Yuchen Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 21

MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

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.

By Zexue He, Yu Wang, Churan Zhi, Yuanzhe Hu, Tzu-Ping Chen, Lang Yin, Ze Chen, Tong Arthur Wu, Siru Ouyang, Zihan Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Julian McAuley, Yejin Choi, Alex Pentland
arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

TrawMem: Reframing Agent Memory as Task-Oriented Role-Adaptive Workspaces

TrawMem redefines agent memory systems as Task‑Oriented Role‑Adaptive Workspaces, selecting and organizing memories by their roles in task solving rather than mere relevance. It structures interaction histories into local threads and jointly selects complementary memories to build task‑specific workspaces. Experiments on LoCoMo and MemGallery show consistent macro‑F1 gains of 2.23–3.14 points and improved LLM‑Judge scores with fewer context tokens.

By Mingyu Zhang, Zixu Li, Zhiheng Fu, Zhiwei Chen, Jinhe Bi, Yupeng Hu
arXiv AI
Oct 5

APDMem: Agent-Controlled Progressive Disclosure for Query-Adaptive Long-Term Memory

APDMem is a hierarchical long‑term memory system for personalized LLM assistants that uses progressive disclosure to retrieve conversation history. It organizes memory into four layers—thematic summaries, personalized key facts, turn‑level evidence notes, and raw messages—and a controller reads from the top layer, drilling down only when necessary. This approach balances cost and fidelity, allowing simple queries to finish early while deeper inspection is triggered for complex or exact‑evidence requests, and a note synthesizer structures retrieved evidence before answer generation. Experiments on LongMemEval show APDMem performs strongly while accessing only 8% of the total conversations.

By Chin-Lun Fu, Anagha Kulkarni, Hong Ni, Behrouz Madahian