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LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation

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Despite their remarkable capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to effectively leverage historical interaction information in dynamic and complex environments. Memory systems enable LLMs to move beyond stateless interactions by introducing persistent information storage, retrieval, and utilization mechanisms. However, existing memory systems often introduce substantial time and computational overhead. To this end, we introduce a new memory system called LightMem, which strikes a balance between the performance and efficiency of memory systems. Inspired by the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of human memory, LightMem organizes memory into three complementary stages. First, cognition-inspired sensory memory rapidly filters irrelevant information through lightweight compression and groups information according to their topics. Next, topic-aware short-term memory consolidates these topic-based groups, organizing and summarizing content for more structured access. Finally, long-term memory with sleep-time update employs an offline procedure that decouples consolidation from online inference. On LongMemEval and LoCoMo, using GPT and Qwen backbones, LightMem consistently surpasses strong baselines, improving QA accuracy by up to 7.7% / 29.3%, reducing total token usage by up to 38x / 20.9x and API calls by up to 30x / 55.5x, while purely online test-time costs are even lower, achieving up to 106x / 117x token reduction and 159x / 310x fewer API calls. The code is available at https://github.com/zjunlp/LightMem.

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MedMemoryBench: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Personalized Healthcare

cs.AI · 2026-05-12 · conditional · novelty 8.0

MedMemoryBench supplies a 2,000-session synthetic medical trajectory dataset and an evaluate-while-constructing streaming protocol to expose memory saturation and reasoning failures in current agent architectures for personalized healthcare.

MemGym: a Long-Horizon Memory Environment for LLM Agents

cs.CL · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

MemGym unifies agent gyms into a memory benchmark with isolated scoring across tool-use, research, coding, and computer-use regimes plus a lightweight reward model for tractable coding evaluation.

EXG: Self-Evolving Agents with Experience Graphs

cs.AI · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

EXG is an experience graph framework for self-evolving LLM agents that supports online real-time growth and offline reuse to enhance solution quality and efficiency on code generation and reasoning benchmarks.

Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Decentralized Memory

cs.MA · 2026-05-21 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

DecentMem is a decentralized dual-pool memory framework for self-evolving multi-agent systems that provides O(log T) regret guarantees and yields up to 23.8% accuracy gains over centralized baselines.

Auto-Dreamer: Learning Offline Memory Consolidation for Language Agents

cs.CL · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Auto-Dreamer trains an offline memory consolidator via GRPO on agent performance to abstract cross-session patterns, outperforming baselines by 7 points on ScienceWorld with 12x smaller memory and generalizing to ALFWorld and WebArena.

From History to State: Constant-Context Skill Learning for LLM Agents

cs.AI · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Constant-context skill learning trains reusable task-family modules for LLM agents using a deterministic state block for progress tracking and subgoal rewards, achieving 89.6% unseen success on ALFWorld, 76.8% on WebShop, and 66.4% on SciWorld with Qwen3-8B while reducing prompt tokens 2-7x.

HyMem: Hybrid Memory Architecture with Dynamic Retrieval Scheduling

cs.AI · 2026-02-15 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

HyMem introduces dual-granular memory storage with a lightweight summary module for fast responses and selective activation of a deep LLM module for complex queries, outperforming full-context baselines by 92.6% lower computational cost on LOCOMO and LongMemEval benchmarks.

Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic Memory

cs.AI · 2025-11-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ViLoMem is a dual-stream grow-and-refine memory system that separates visual and logical error patterns in MLLMs to improve pass@1 accuracy and reduce repeated mistakes across six multimodal benchmarks.

HyperMem: Hypergraph Memory for Long-Term Conversations

cs.CL · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

HyperMem is a hypergraph memory architecture that groups related conversation episodes and facts via hyperedges and reports 92.73% LLM-as-a-judge accuracy on the LoCoMo benchmark.

Memory as Metabolism: A Design for Companion Knowledge Systems

cs.AI · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

This paper designs a companion knowledge system with TRIAGE, DECAY, CONTEXTUALIZE, CONSOLIDATE, and AUDIT operations plus memory gravity and minority-hypothesis retention to give contradictory evidence a path to update dominant interpretations in personal LLM wikis.

Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models

cs.AI · 2026-01-18 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

The survey structures agentic reasoning for LLMs into foundational, self-evolving, and collective multi-agent layers while distinguishing in-context orchestration from post-training optimization and reviewing applications across domains.

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