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Persistent AI memory is often reduced to a retrieval problem: store prior interactions as text, embed them, and ask the model to recover relevant context later. This design is useful for thematic recall, but it is mismatched to the kinds of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Alex Petrov , Alexander Gusak , Denis Mukha , Dima Korolev

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

Recent large language model (LLM)-driven chat assistant systems have integrated memory components to track user-assistant chat histories, enabling more accurate and personalized responses. However, their long-term memory capabilities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Di Wu , Hongwei Wang , Wenhao Yu , Yuwei Zhang , Kai-Wei Chang , Dong Yu

Agent memory systems accumulate experience but currently lack a principled operational metric for memory quality governance -- deciding which memories to trust, suppress, or deprecate as the agent's task distribution shifts. Write-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Baris Simsek

Large language models face challenges in long-context question answering, where key evidence of a query may be dispersed across millions of tokens. Existing works equip large language models with a memory buffer that is dynamically updated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yaorui Shi , Yuxin Chen , Siyuan Wang , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Qi Gu , Xiang Wang , An Zhang

We investigate how agents built on pretrained large language models (LLMs) can learn target classification functions from labeled examples without parameter updates. While conventional approaches like fine-tuning are often costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jackson Hassell , Dan Zhang , Hannah Kim , Tom Mitchell , Estevam Hruschka

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate in settings where a single context window is far too small to capture what has happened, what was learned, and what should not be repeated. Memory -- the ability to persist, organize,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pengfei Du

Background: Large language models are typically evaluated as models, benchmarks, or short conversational episodes. Less is known about what happens when an agent is embedded persistently in a real academic research environment with durable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anas H. Alzahrani

Temporal reasoning over long, multi-session dialogues is a critical capability for conversational agents. However, existing works and our pilot study have shown that as dialogue histories grow in length and accumulate noise, current…

End-to-end agent-memory benchmarks report a single hit@k per retriever, confounding lexical leakage (uncontrolled query/gold/distractor entity overlap) with tag-mixing (preferences, services, tools averaged together). We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Youwang Deng

Memory-augmented LLM agents offer an appealing shortcut to continual learning: rather than updating model parameters, they accumulate experience in external memory, seemingly sidestepping the stability-plasticity dilemma of parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qisheng Hu , Quanyu Long , Wenya Wang

Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with persistent memory enhances interaction continuity and personalization but introduces new safety risks. Specifically, contaminated or biased memory accumulation can trigger abnormal agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Weiwei Xie , Shaoxiong Guo , Fan Zhang , Tian Xia , Xue Yang , Lizhuang Ma , Junchi Yan , Qibing Ren

Memory is increasingly central to Large Language Model (LLM) agents operating beyond a single context window, yet most existing systems rely on offline, query-agnostic memory construction that can be inefficient and may discard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haozhen Zhang , Haodong Yue , Tao Feng , Quanyu Long , Jianzhu Bao , Bowen Jin , Weizhi Zhang , Xiao Li , Jiaxuan You , Chengwei Qin , Wenya Wang

Continual memory augmentation lets computer-using agents (CUAs) learn from prior interactions, but unvetted memories can encode domain-inappropriate or unsafe heuristics--spurious rules that drift from user intent and safety constraints. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Thong Q. Nguyen , Shubhang Desai , Raja Hasnain Anwar , Firoz Shaik , Vishwas Suryanarayanan , Vishal Chowdhary

Long-context memory systems often fail under fixed budgets, but end-to-end evaluation does not reveal whether evidence was discarded during compression or preserved but never retrieved. We introduce a four-condition diagnostic protocol that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiangnan Yu , Kisson Songqi Lin , Jilong Wu

Long-term memory is becoming a central bottleneck for language agents. Exsting RAG and GraphRAG systems largely treat memory graphs as static retrieval middleware, which limits their ability to recover complete evidence chains from partial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Juntong Wang , Haoyue Zhao , guanghui Pan , Xiyuan Wang , Yanbo Wang , Qiyan Deng , Muhan Zhang

Modern LLM-based agents and chat assistants rely on long-term memory frameworks to store reusable knowledge, recall user preferences, and augment reasoning. As researchers create more complex memory architectures, it becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Alina Shutova , Alexandra Olenina , Ivan Vinogradov , Anton Sinitsin

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as autonomous reasoning agents in decision support, scientific problem-solving, and multi-agent coordination systems. However, deploying LLM agents in consequential applications requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 I. de Zarzà , J. de Curtò , Jordi Cabot , Pietro Manzoni , Carlos T. Calafate

Procedural memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to internalize "how-to" knowledge, theoretically reducing redundant trial-and-error. However, existing frameworks predominantly suffer from a "passive accumulation" paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zouying Cao , Jiaji Deng , Li Yu , Weikang Zhou , Zhaoyang Liu , Bolin Ding , Hai Zhao

Research on large language model (LLM) security is shifting from "will the model leak training data" to a more consequential question: can an agent with persistent, long-term memory be continuously shaped, cross-session poisoned, accessed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zehao Lin , Chunyu Li , Kai Chen