arXiv AI By Tao An

Fidelity Before Structure: Verbatim Chunks Beat Lossy Artifact Extraction in Long-Conversation LLM Memory

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arXiv:2601. 00821v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing class of conversational-memory systems compresses dialogue history into structured artifacts (extracted facts, decisions, or events) on the premise that distilled structure retrieves better than raw text.

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