arXiv Machine Learning

MemoryLACE: Memory Lifecycle-Aware Consolidation and Evidence Retrieval

MemoryLACE (MemLACE) is a lightweight memory framework that explicitly models the lifecycle of textual evidence—capturing sparse merge, supersession, and contradiction relations—while preserving atomic natural‑language memories and their provenance. Unlike traditional systems that retrieve memories independently, MemLACE reconstructs relation‑aware evidence units that expose current, historical, supporting, and conflicting evidence for downstream reasoning. In benchmark evaluations (BEAM and StructMemEval) using both open‑weight and proprietary LLM backbones, MemLACE achieves the highest overall performance among same‑backbone comparisons and reduces BEAM runtime by 66.6% compared to the strongest reflective‑memory baseline, Hindsight.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Agent Zero Memory: Provenance-Aware Long-Term Memory for LLM Agents

Agent Zero Memory is a provenance‑aware long‑term memory system for large language model agents that distills user interactions into three parallel memory structures: an episodic timeline, an associative entity‑event knowledge graph, and a semantic, citation‑locked hierarchical documentary memory. Retrieval is performed via an intent gate, source router, and concurrent searches across the three systems, producing integrated, cited answers that exclude fabrication and require evidence the reader has opened. The system achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LongMemEval (95.60%) and LoCoMo (93.60%) while offering a favorable accuracy‑cost‑latency trade‑off across multiple backbone LLMs.

By Ming Wu, Pengyuan Zhu
arXiv AI
Aug 20

MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observations

MemFuseBench is a benchmark for multi‑source memory fusion that generates source‑tagged observations, evidence‑grounded questions, and adversarial distractors using a Scene‑to‑Sensor pipeline. The proposed MemFuse system preserves source‑level evidence in atomic memory and clusters related events into fused memory via a causal fusion graph, enabling traceable retrieval of dispersed observations. Experiments show that MemFuse outperforms other memory systems across all LLM settings, especially on questions requiring cross‑source evidence fusion.

By Chao Li, Yuanfa Li, Wenhao Wu, Xule Liu, Zhi Wang, Kun Shao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observations

MemFuse introduces a multi‑source memory fusion system and a corresponding benchmark, MemFuseBench, designed to evaluate agents that must integrate fragmented observations from multiple applications, devices, users, and time points. The benchmark uses a Scene‑to‑Sensor pipeline to generate source‑tagged observations, evidence‑grounded questions, and adversarial distractors, enabling systematic assessment of temporal reasoning, cross‑source evidence fusion, and noise robustness. Experiments show that MemFuse outperforms other memory systems across all evaluated LLM settings, especially on questions requiring cross‑source evidence fusion.

arXiv AI
6d ago

MemCoRe: Recovering Evidence from Progressively Compressed Factual Knowledge for Agent Memory

MemCoRe is a memory system for large language model agents that organizes factual knowledge into a compression hierarchy, progressively reducing redundancy while preserving retrieval structure. The hierarchy compresses detailed records into keywords and then into topic groups, allowing evidence to be located by searching across levels. Experiments show that MemCoRe outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art baselines in retrieving relevant evidence for downstream reasoning.

By Zhenyuan Zhang, Xianzhang Jia, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenbo Song, Wei Xue, Sirui Han, Yike Guo
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

UTILMEM: Benchmarking Evidence Utilization in Long-Term Conversational Memory

UTILMEM is a new diagnostic benchmark that tests how conversational agents use long‑term memory, focusing on reasoning over dense histories, spotting implicitly relevant memories, synthesizing distributed evidence, and resisting interference from similar distractors. It contains 1,717 instances across five domains and evaluates a range of retrieval‑based and memory‑augmented systems. The study shows that strong performance on traditional factual recall does not guarantee effective memory utilization, highlighting a gap between retrieving information and integrating it into coherent, task‑oriented outputs.

By Peijun Qing, Fobo Shi, Soroush Vosoughi