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Modern language agents must operate over long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where they retrieve external information, adapt to observations, and answer interdependent queries. Yet, most LLM systems rely on full-context prompting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zijian Zhou , Ao Qu , Zhaoxuan Wu , Sunghwan Kim , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Jinhua Zhao , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low , Paul Pu Liang

AI Clones aim to simulate an individual's thoughts and behaviors to enable long-term, personalized interaction, placing stringent demands on memory systems to model experiences, emotions, and opinions over time. Existing memory benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sen Hu , Zhiyu Zhang , Yuxiang Wei , Xueran Han , Zhenheng Tang , Huacan Wang , Ronghao Chen

Large language model (LLM) based agents have recently attracted much attention from the research and industry communities. Compared with original LLMs, LLM-based agents are featured in their self-evolving capability, which is the basis for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zeyu Zhang , Xiaohe Bo , Chen Ma , Rui Li , Xu Chen , Quanyu Dai , Jieming Zhu , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enabled the development of AI agents that can plan and interact with tools to complete complex tasks. However, literature on their reliability in real-world applications remains limited. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Junyi Shen , Goodman Gu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serve as daily assistants for millions. However, their ability to generate responses aligned with individual preferences remains limited. Prior approaches enable only static, single-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chang Nie , Chaoyou Fu , Yifan Zhang , Haihua Yang , Caifeng Shan

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, persistent memory at the API layer is essential for enabling context-aware behavior across LLMs and multi-session interactions. Existing approaches force vendor lock-in and rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Luiz C. Borro , Luiz A. B. Macarini , Gordon Tindall , Michael Montero , Adam B. Struck

While role-playing agents excel in short-term interactions, long-term conversations overwhelm context windows, motivating external memory frameworks. Current systems typically rely on persona-agnostic summarization, which records facts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rongsheng Zhang , Ruofan Hu , Weijie Chen , Jiji Tang , Junnan Ren , Wanying Wu , Xunuoyan Chen , Tangjie Lv , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Memory systems often organize user-agent interactions as retrievable external memory and are crucial for long-running agents by overcoming the limited context windows of LLMs. However, existing memory systems invoke LLMs to process every…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zijie Dai , Shiyuan Deng , Sheng Guan , Yizhou Tian , Xin Yao , Xiao Yan , James Cheng

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external memory systems to remain consistent across long-horizon interactions, but little empirical work has been done to understand the specific failure modes and design choices that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ishir Garg , Neel Kolhe , Dawn Song , Xuandong Zhao

LLM-based agents have been widely applied as personal assistants, capable of memorizing information from user messages and responding to personal queries. However, there still lacks an objective and automatic evaluation on their memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zeyu Zhang , Quanyu Dai , Luyu Chen , Zeren Jiang , Rui Li , Jieming Zhu , Xu Chen , Yi Xie , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

For LLM agents, memory management critically impacts efficiency, quality, and security. While much research focuses on retention, selective forgetting--inspired by human cognitive processes (hippocampal indexing/consolidation theory and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yingjie Gu , Wenjian Xiong , Liqiang Wang , Pengcheng Ren , Chao Li , Xiaojing Zhang , Yijuan Guo , Qi Sun , Jingyao Ma , Shidang Shi

This work addresses the challenge of personalized question answering in long-term human-machine interactions: when conversational history spans weeks or months and exceeds the context window, existing personalization mechanisms struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junyu Feng , Binxiao Xu , Jiayi Chen , Mengyu Dai , Cenyang Wu , Haodong Li , Bohan Zeng , Yunliu Xie , Hao Liang , Ming Lu , Wentao Zhang

While long-term memory is essential for intelligent agents to maintain consistent historical awareness, the accumulation of extensive interaction data often leads to performance bottlenecks. Naive storage expansion increases retrieval noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Junming Liu , Yifei Sun , Weihua Cheng , Haodong Lei , Yuqi Li , Yirong Chen , Ding Wang

Humans spend a remarkable fraction of waking life engaged in acts of "mental time travel". We dwell on our actions in the past and experience satisfaction or regret. More than merely autobiographical storytelling, we use these event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Chia-Chun Hung , Timothy Lillicrap , Josh Abramson , Yan Wu , Mehdi Mirza , Federico Carnevale , Arun Ahuja , Greg Wayne

Although LLM agents can leverage tools for complex tasks, they still need memory to maintain cross-turn consistency and accumulate reusable information in long-horizon interactions. However, retrieval-based external memory systems incur low…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiaquan Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Shuxu Chen , Zhenzhen Huang , Pengcheng Zheng , Zhicheng Wang , Ping Guo , Fan Mo , Sung-Ho Bae , Jie Zou , Jiwei Wei , Yang Yang

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to harness user-item interaction histories for item generation has emerged as a promising paradigm in generative recommendation. However, the limited context window of LLMs often restricts them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chengbing Wang , Yang Zhang , Fengbin Zhu , Jizhi Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng

Current evaluations of long-term memory in LLMs are fundamentally static. By fixating on simple retrieval and short-context inference, they neglect the multifaceted nature of complex memory systems, such as dynamic state tracking and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yihang Ding , Wanke Xia , Yiting Zhao , Jinbo Su , Jialiang Yang , Zhengbo Zhang , Ke Wang , Wenming Yang

Memory is an important aspect of intelligence and plays a role in many deep reinforcement learning models. However, little progress has been made in understanding when specific memory systems help more than others and how well they…

Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into interactive agents that collaborate with users in real-world tasks. Effective collaboration in such settings increasingly depends on understanding the user beyond what is explicitly stated, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxin Chen , Yi Zhang , Zhengzhou Cai , Yaorui Shi , Zhiyuan Yao , Chenhang Cui , Jingnan Zheng , Yaqi Huo , Xi Su , Qi Gu , Xunliang Cai , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Large language models (LLMs) deployed in user-facing applications require long-horizon consistency: the ability to remember prior interactions, respect user preferences, and ground reasoning in past events. However, contemporary memory…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Daivik Patel , Shrenik Patel
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