arXiv AI

Temporal Context Reinstatement Drives Episodic-Like Order Memory in Long-Context Language Models

arXiv:2607. 22575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human episodic memory supports the retrieval of experiences that unfold over extended timescales, yet the computational mechanisms underlying this ability remain debated due to the limited mechanistic accessibility in long-term memory experiments in humans.

arXiv AI
Sep 3

Beyond Dialogue Time: Temporal Semantic Memory for Personalized LLM Agents

The paper introduces Temporal Semantic Memory (TSM), a framework that improves how large language model agents manage memory by addressing two key shortcomings: temporal inaccuracy and temporal fragmentation. TSM constructs a semantic timeline instead of a dialogue timeline, consolidating temporally continuous and semantically related information into durative memory. During retrieval, it aligns the query’s temporal intent with the semantic timeline, enabling the use of temporally appropriate durative memories and yielding up to a 12.2% accuracy boost over existing methods.

By Miao Su, Yucan Guo, Zhongni Hou, Long Bai, Zixuan Li, Yufei Zhang, Guojun Yin, Wei Lin, Xiaolong Jin, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng
arXiv AI
4d ago

A neural network that maintains and retrieves memories based on context

A recurrent neural network with an episodic memory buffer was trained to infer situational context while watching naturalistic movies, using Bayesian inference to predict upcoming scenes. The inferred context modulates the network’s recurrent connectivity in a low‑rank manner, producing activity patterns that best match human fMRI responses. Context also guides episodic memory retrieval via a key‑value self‑attention system, enabling the model to retrieve memories faster and more accurately than a context‑agnostic version.

By Hayoung Song, JeongJun Park, Qihong Lu, Giacomo Vedovati, Monica D. Rosenberg, Zachariah M. Reagh, ShiNung Ching
arXiv AI
4d ago

ReMem: Rethinking Perception and Memory in Long-Context Recommendation Agents

ReMem is a new recommendation agent framework that rethinks perception and memory for long-context recommendation tasks. It replaces raw HTML parsing with OCR-based multimodal perception from screenshots, extracting structured information in a platform-agnostic way. The framework also introduces a chunk-wise sequential memory update strategy and a multi-memory GRPO variant to efficiently model evolving user preferences over arbitrarily long interaction histories, achieving a 5.16% average improvement over state-of-the-art baselines on three recommendation agent tasks.

By Haohao Qu, Yongcheng Jing, Chun Hin Chan, Shanru Lin, Wenqi Fan, Dacheng Tao
arXiv AI
Aug 14

From Observation to Intervention: Memory in Brains and Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 12377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brains and large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally different memory systems, but they can be compared through shared functional questions: where memory-related information is represented, how partial cues recover broader associations, how new information is written or updated, and how memory-related states can be perturbed.

By Morteza Salehjahromi, Shayan A. Zadegan, Amgad Muneer, Jia Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 20

EgoMemReason: A Memory-Driven Reasoning Benchmark for Long-Horizon Egocentric Video Understanding

EgoMemReason is a new benchmark for week‑long egocentric video understanding that focuses on memory‑driven reasoning rather than simple perception tasks. It tests three memory types—entity, event, and behavior—across 500 questions, each requiring evidence from an average of 5.1 video segments and 25.9 hours of backtracking. Evaluation of 17 models shows that even the best achieves only 39.6% accuracy, highlighting the difficulty of long‑horizon memory in multimodal systems.

By Ziyang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shoubin Yu, Ce Zhang, Zengqi Zhao, Jaehong Yoon, Hyunji Lee, Gedas Bertasius, Mohit Bansal