MemoryArena is a new evaluation gym that benchmarks agent memory in interdependent multi‑session tasks. Unlike prior benchmarks that test memorization or single‑session action in isolation, MemoryArena requires agents to acquire memory while interacting with the environment and then use that memory to guide future decisions across a range of tasks such as web navigation, planning, information search, and formal reasoning. The benchmark reveals that agents excelling on existing long‑context memory tests perform poorly here, highlighting a gap in current memory evaluation methods.
By Zexue He, Yu Wang, Churan Zhi, Yuanzhe Hu, Tzu-Ping Chen, Lang Yin, Ze Chen, Tong Arthur Wu, Siru Ouyang, Zihan Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Julian McAuley, Yejin Choi, Alex Pentland
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:2606. 04315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents accumulate histories that outgrow their context windows, motivating a growing literature on memory systems.
By Zhikai Chen, Jialiang Gu, Junyu Yin, Xianxuan Long, Shenglai Zeng, Xiaoze Liu, Kai Guo, Keren Zhou, Jiliang Tang
arXiv:2605. 18421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents mainly evaluate reasoning, planning, and execution.
By Yuyao Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Mo Chi, Kaichi Yu, Yuhan Li, Miao Peng, Bing Tong, Chen Zhang, Yan Zhou, Jia Li
arXiv:2607. 12385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A significant challenge in agentic AI is prospective memory: the ability to execute an intention at a specific future cue or state while other activities are ongoing.
By Genglin Liu, Saadia Gabriel
arXiv:2607. 17621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing self-evolving memory systems mainly improve agent memory based on textual outputs, such as task trajectories and reflections.
By Yechao Hong, Haiquan Qiu, Yaqing Wang, Quanming Yao