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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extended interactions. Existing memory systems often store…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chuanrui Hu , Xingze Gao , Zuyi Zhou , Dannong Xu , Yi Bai , Xintong Li , Hui Zhang , Tong Li , Chong Zhang , Lidong Bing , Yafeng Deng

Large language models still struggle with reliable long-term conversational memory: simply enlarging context windows or applying naive retrieval often introduces noise and destabilizes responses. We present APEX-MEM, a conversational memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pratyay Banerjee , Masud Moshtaghi , Shivashankar Subramanian , Amita Misra , Ankit Chadha

We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for conversational memory evaluation containing 75,336 question-answer pairs across diverse categories including user facts, assistant recall, abstention, preferences, temporal changes, and implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Egor Pakhomov , Erik Nijkamp , Caiming Xiong

Long-term memory (LTM) is essential for large language models (LLMs) to achieve autonomous intelligence in complex, evolving environments. Despite increasing efforts in memory-augmented and retrieval-based architectures, there remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Luanbo Wan , Weizhi Ma

With the growing demand for intelligent in-vehicle experiences, vehicle-based agents are evolving from simple assistants to long-term companions. This evolution requires agents to continuously model multi-user preferences and make reliable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yuhao Chen , Yi Xu , Xinyun Ding , Xiang Fang , Shuochen Liu , Luxi Lin , Qingyu Zhang , Ya Li , Quan Liu , Tong Xu

Next-generation visual assistants, such as smart glasses, embodied agents, and always-on life-logging systems, must reason over an entire day or more of continuous visual experience. In ultra-long video settings, relevant information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ziyang Wang , Yue Zhang , Shoubin Yu , Ce Zhang , Zengqi Zhao , Jaehong Yoon , Hyunji Lee , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal

Large Language Model (LLM) has exhibited strong reasoning ability in text-based contexts across various domains, yet the limitation of context window poses challenges for the model on long-range inference tasks and necessitates a memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mengwei Yuan , Jianan Liu , Jing Yang , Xianyou Li , Weiran Yan , Yichao Wu , Penghao Liang

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity involved in analyzing emotions, current non-artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Huaiwen Zhang , Yu Chen , Ming Wang , Shi Feng

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation, has garnered significant attention in human-computer interaction systems. Previous ERC studies focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Lili Shan , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Li

Despite remarkable advancements in mitigating hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) by retrieval augmentation, it remains challenging to measure the reliability of LLMs using static question-answering (QA) data. Specifically, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaodong Yu , Hao Cheng , Xiaodong Liu , Dan Roth , Jianfeng Gao

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into lifelong AI assistants, LLM personalization has become a critical frontier. However, progress is currently bottlenecked by the absence of a gold-standard evaluation benchmark. Existing benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Xiao , Xiang Yu , Chengbing Wang , Wuqiang Zheng , Xinyu Lin , Kaining Liu , Hongxun Ding , Yang Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Memory plays a central role in enabling large language models (LLMs) to operate over sequential tasks by accumulating and reusing experience over time. However, existing evaluations of LLM memory mostly rely on aggregate metrics such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Songwei Dong , Zihan Chen , Chengshuai Shi , Peng Wang , Jundong Li , Cong Shen

Speech Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise for speech emotion recognition (SER) via generative interfaces. However, shifting from closed-set classification to open text generation introduces zero-shot stochasticity, making…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hezhao Zhang , Huang-Cheng Chou , Shrikanth Narayanan , Thomas Hain

Longitudinal health agents must reason across multi-source trajectories that combine continuous device streams, sparse clinical exams, and episodic life events - yet evaluating them is hard: real-world data cannot be released at scale, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chao Li , Cailiang Liu , Ang Gao , Kexin Deng , Shu Zhang , Langping Xu , Xiaotong Shi , Xionghao Ding , Jian Pei , Xun Jiang

Despite the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) across a wide range of tasks and scenarios, developing a method for reliably evaluating LLMs across varied contexts continues to be challenging. Modern evaluation approaches often use LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Steffi Chern , Ethan Chern , Graham Neubig , Pengfei Liu

Large language models are increasingly deployed in multi-turn settings such as tutoring, support, and counseling, where reliability depends on preserving consistent roles, personas, and goals across long horizons. This requirement becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Han Luo , Guy Laban

Large language models (LLMs) has been widely used for automated negotiation, but their high computational cost and privacy risks limit deployment in privacy-sensitive, on-device settings such as mobile assistants or rescue robots. Small…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yunbo Long , Yuhan Liu , Liming Xu

Large Language Model (LLM) agents exhibit remarkable conversational and reasoning capabilities but remain constrained by limited context windows and the lack of persistent memory. Recent efforts address these limitations via external memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zhengjun Huang , Zhoujin Tian , Qintian Guo , Fangyuan Zhang , Yingli Zhou , Di Jiang , Zeying Xie , Xiaofang Zhou

End-to-end Spoken Language Models (SLMs) hold great potential for paralinguistic perception, and numerous studies have aimed to enhance their capabilities, particularly for empathetic dialogue. However, current approaches largely depend on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuhang Jia , Pei Liu , Haoqin Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Xuxin Cheng , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Xunliang Cai , Yong Qin

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into sophisticated autonomous agents capable of complex software development tasks, evaluating their real-world capabilities becomes critical. While existing benchmarks like…