arXiv AI By Hyeonjeong Ha, Jeonghwan Kim, Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, William M. Campbell, Yue Wu, Yuji Zhang, Kathleen McKeown, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Heng Ji

MemGuard: Preventing Memory Contamination in Long-Term Memory-Augmented Large Language Models

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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
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

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.

By Meriem Yacoubi, Pia Schmidt, Nenad Petrovic, Ahmed Frikha, Martin Kirchhoff, Alois Knoll