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