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.
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Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of NLP tasks, but they remain fundamentally stateless, constrained by limited context windows that hinder long-horizon reasoning. Recent efforts to address this limitation often augment LLMs with an external memory bank, yet most existing pipelines are static and heuristic-driven, lacking a learned mechanism for deciding what to store, update, or retrieve. We present Memory-R1, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that equips LLMs with the ability to actively manage and utilize external memory through two specialized agents: a Memory Manager that learns structured operations, including ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, and NOOP; and an Answer Agent that pre-selects and reasons over relevant entries. Both agents are fine-tuned with outcome-driven RL (PPO and GRPO), enabling adaptive memory management with minimal supervision. With only 152 training QA pairs, Memory-R1 outperforms strong baselines and generalizes across diverse question types, three benchmarks (LoCoMo, MSC, LongMemEval), and multiple model scales (3B-14B).
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EvolveMem enables autonomous self-evolution of LLM memory retrieval configurations via LLM diagnosis and safeguards, delivering 25.7% gains over strong baselines on LoCoMo and 18.9% on MemBench with positive cross-benchmark transfer.
R^2-Mem distills rubric-scored experiences from high- and low-quality search trajectories to guide LLM agents, raising F1 by up to 22.6% while cutting tokens 12.9% and iterations 20.2%.
LongMemEval-V2 is a new benchmark where AgentRunbook-C reaches 72.5% accuracy on long-term agent memory tasks, beating RAG baselines at 48.5% and basic coding agents at 69.3%.
DeepRefine refines agent-compiled knowledge bases via multi-turn abductive diagnosis and RL training with a GBD reward, yielding consistent downstream task gains.
MemCompiler reframes memory use as state-conditioned compilation, delivering relevant guidance via text and latent channels to improve embodied agent performance up to 129% and cut latency 60% versus static injection.
BeliefMem is a probabilistic memory architecture for LLM agents that retains multiple candidate conclusions with probabilities updated by Noisy-OR, achieving superior average performance over deterministic baselines on LoCoMo and ALFWorld.
MemCoE learns memory organization guidelines via contrastive feedback and then trains a guideline-aligned RL policy for memory updates, yielding consistent gains on personalization benchmarks.
OCR-Memory encodes agent trajectories as images with visual anchors and retrieves verbatim text via locate-and-transcribe, yielding gains on long-horizon benchmarks under strict context limits.
SAGER equips LLM recommendation agents with per-user evolving policy skills via two-representation architecture, contrastive CoT diagnosis, and skill-augmented listwise reasoning, yielding SOTA gains orthogonal to memory accumulation.
PERMA is a new benchmark using temporally ordered events, text variability, and linguistic alignment to evaluate LLM memory agents on persona consistency beyond simple retrieval.
MM-Mem distills video input through a hierarchical memory of sensory buffer, episodic stream, and symbolic schema, optimized by a semantic information bottleneck and SIB-GRPO, to achieve SOTA on long-horizon video benchmarks.
Controlled study shows mixed training curricula improve aggregate F1 on memory QA benchmarks while out-of-domain data transfers targeted skills like temporal reasoning, with per-question-type effects exceeding aggregate differences.
DeferMem decouples memory QA into high-recall retrieval and RL-based query-conditioned evidence distillation, outperforming baselines on LoCoMo and LongMemEval-S with highest accuracy, fastest runtime, and zero API token cost.
Mem-π is a framework using a dedicated model and decision-content decoupled RL to generate context-specific guidance on demand for LLM agents, outperforming retrieval baselines by over 30% on web navigation.
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.
Empirical evaluation of eight memory condensation strategies on 480 DiscoveryBench tasks finds no significant impact on hypothesis quality but domain-dependent differences in token efficiency.
SAGE is a self-evolving agentic graph-memory engine that dynamically constructs and refines structured memory graphs via writer-reader feedback, yielding performance gains on multi-hop QA, open-domain retrieval, and long-term agent benchmarks.
TreeMem assigns credit to agents in multi-agent memory systems by expanding outputs into a tree and using Monte Carlo averaging of final rewards to optimize each agent's policy.
In LLM agents, memory routing circuits emerge at 0.6B scale while content circuits appear only at 4B, and write/read operations recruit a pre-existing late-layer context hub instead of creating a new one, enabling a 76% accurate unsupervised failure diagnostic.
A lightweight supervised router using frozen-LLM embeddings for memory admission decisions outperforms LLM-based memory managers in both F1 score and latency on the LoCoMo benchmark.
RSCB-MC is a risk-sensitive contextual bandit memory controller for LLM coding agents that chooses safe actions including abstention, achieving 60.5% proxy success with 0% false positives and low latency in 200-case validation.
MemSearch-o1 mitigates memory dilution in agentic LLM search through reasoning-aligned token-level memory growth, retracing with a contribution function, and path reorganization, improving reasoning activation on benchmarks.
The Experience Compression Spectrum unifies memory, skills, and rules in LLM agents along increasing compression levels and identifies the absence of adaptive cross-level compression as the missing diagonal.
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MedMemoryBench: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Personalized Healthcare
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.
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EvolveMem:Self-Evolving Memory Architecture via AutoResearch for LLM Agents
EvolveMem enables autonomous self-evolution of LLM memory retrieval configurations via LLM diagnosis and safeguards, delivering 25.7% gains over strong baselines on LoCoMo and 18.9% on MemBench with positive cross-benchmark transfer.
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R^2-Mem: Reflective Experience for Memory Search
R^2-Mem distills rubric-scored experiences from high- and low-quality search trajectories to guide LLM agents, raising F1 by up to 22.6% while cutting tokens 12.9% and iterations 20.2%.
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LongMemEval-V2: Evaluating Long-Term Agent Memory Toward Experienced Colleagues
LongMemEval-V2 is a new benchmark where AgentRunbook-C reaches 72.5% accuracy on long-term agent memory tasks, beating RAG baselines at 48.5% and basic coding agents at 69.3%.
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DeepRefine: Agent-Compiled Knowledge Refinement via Reinforcement Learning
DeepRefine refines agent-compiled knowledge bases via multi-turn abductive diagnosis and RL training with a GBD reward, yielding consistent downstream task gains.
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MemCompiler: Compile, Don't Inject -- State-Conditioned Memory for Embodied Agents
MemCompiler reframes memory use as state-conditioned compilation, delivering relevant guidance via text and latent channels to improve embodied agent performance up to 129% and cut latency 60% versus static injection.
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Belief Memory: Agent Memory Under Partial Observability
BeliefMem is a probabilistic memory architecture for LLM agents that retains multiple candidate conclusions with probabilities updated by Noisy-OR, achieving superior average performance over deterministic baselines on LoCoMo and ALFWorld.
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Learning How and What to Memorize: Cognition-Inspired Two-Stage Optimization for Evolving Memory
MemCoE learns memory organization guidelines via contrastive feedback and then trains a guideline-aligned RL policy for memory updates, yielding consistent gains on personalization benchmarks.
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OCR-Memory: Optical Context Retrieval for Long-Horizon Agent Memory
OCR-Memory encodes agent trajectories as images with visual anchors and retrieves verbatim text via locate-and-transcribe, yielding gains on long-horizon benchmarks under strict context limits.
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SAGER: Self-Evolving User Policy Skills for Recommendation Agent
SAGER equips LLM recommendation agents with per-user evolving policy skills via two-representation architecture, contrastive CoT diagnosis, and skill-augmented listwise reasoning, yielding SOTA gains orthogonal to memory accumulation.
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PERMA: Benchmarking Personalized Memory Agents via Event-Driven Preference and Realistic Task Environments
PERMA is a new benchmark using temporally ordered events, text variability, and linguistic alignment to evaluate LLM memory agents on persona consistency beyond simple retrieval.
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From Verbatim to Gist: Distilling Pyramidal Multimodal Memory via Semantic Information Bottleneck for Long-Horizon Video Agents
MM-Mem distills video input through a hierarchical memory of sensory buffer, episodic stream, and symbolic schema, optimized by a semantic information bottleneck and SIB-GRPO, to achieve SOTA on long-horizon video benchmarks.
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What Training Data Teaches RL Memory Agents: An Empirical Study of Curriculum Effects in Memory-Augmented QA
Controlled study shows mixed training curricula improve aggregate F1 on memory QA benchmarks while out-of-domain data transfers targeted skills like temporal reasoning, with per-question-type effects exceeding aggregate differences.
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DeferMem: Query-Time Evidence Distillation via Reinforcement Learning for Long-Term Memory QA
DeferMem decouples memory QA into high-recall retrieval and RL-based query-conditioned evidence distillation, outperforming baselines on LoCoMo and LongMemEval-S with highest accuracy, fastest runtime, and zero API token cost.
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Mem-$\pi$: Adaptive Memory through Learning When and What to Generate
Mem-π is a framework using a dedicated model and decision-content decoupled RL to generate context-specific guidance on demand for LLM agents, outperforming retrieval baselines by over 30% on web navigation.
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Auto-Dreamer: Learning Offline Memory Consolidation for Language Agents
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.
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Evaluating Memory Condensation Strategies for Coding Agents in Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
Empirical evaluation of eight memory condensation strategies on 480 DiscoveryBench tasks finds no significant impact on hypothesis quality but domain-dependent differences in token efficiency.
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SAGE: A Self-Evolving Agentic Graph-Memory Engine for Structure-Aware Associative Memory
SAGE is a self-evolving agentic graph-memory engine that dynamically constructs and refines structured memory graphs via writer-reader feedback, yielding performance gains on multi-hop QA, open-domain retrieval, and long-term agent benchmarks.
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Tree-based Credit Assignment for Multi-Agent Memory System
TreeMem assigns credit to agents in multi-agent memory systems by expanding outputs into a tree and using Monte Carlo averaging of final rewards to optimize each agent's policy.
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What Happens Inside Agent Memory? Circuit Analysis from Emergence to Diagnosis
In LLM agents, memory routing circuits emerge at 0.6B scale while content circuits appear only at 4B, and write/read operations recruit a pre-existing late-layer context hub instead of creating a new one, enabling a 76% accurate unsupervised failure diagnostic.
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MemRouter: Memory-as-Embedding Routing for Long-Term Conversational Agents
A lightweight supervised router using frozen-LLM embeddings for memory admission decisions outperforms LLM-based memory managers in both F1 score and latency on the LoCoMo benchmark.
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Learning When to Remember: Risk-Sensitive Contextual Bandits for Abstention-Aware Memory Retrieval in LLM-Based Coding Agents
RSCB-MC is a risk-sensitive contextual bandit memory controller for LLM coding agents that chooses safe actions including abstention, achieving 60.5% proxy success with 0% false positives and low latency in 200-case validation.
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MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search
MemSearch-o1 mitigates memory dilution in agentic LLM search through reasoning-aligned token-level memory growth, retracing with a contribution function, and path reorganization, improving reasoning activation on benchmarks.
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Experience Compression Spectrum: Unifying Memory, Skills, and Rules in LLM Agents
The Experience Compression Spectrum unifies memory, skills, and rules in LLM agents along increasing compression levels and identifies the absence of adaptive cross-level compression as the missing diagonal.
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POINTS-Seeker: Towards Training a Multimodal Agentic Search Model from Scratch
POINTS-Seeker-8B is an 8B multimodal model trained from scratch for agentic search that uses seeding and visual-space history folding to outperform prior models on six visual reasoning benchmarks.
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Trust Your Memory: Verifiable Control of Smart Homes through Reinforcement Learning with Multi-dimensional Rewards
Introduces MemHome benchmark and RL with multi-dimensional rewards for memory-driven smart home device control.
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AnomalyAgent: Agentic Industrial Anomaly Synthesis via Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning
AnomalyAgent uses tool-augmented reinforcement learning with self-reflection to generate realistic industrial anomalies, achieving better metrics than zero-shot methods on MVTec-AD.
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TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation
TSUBASA improves long-horizon personalization in LLMs via dynamic memory evolution for writing and context-distillation self-learning for reading, outperforming Mem0 and Memory-R1 on Qwen-3 benchmarks while reducing token use.
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Decocted Experience Improves Test-Time Inference in LLM Agents
Decocted experience—extracting and organizing the essence from accumulated interactions—enables more effective context construction that improves test-time inference in LLM agents on math, web, and software tasks.
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MemFactory: Unified Inference & Training Framework for Agent Memory
MemFactory is a new unified modular framework for memory-augmented LLM agent inference and training that integrates GRPO and reports up to 14.8% relative gains on MemAgent evaluations.
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Joint Optimization of Multi-agent Memory System
CoMAM jointly optimizes agents in multi-agent LLM memory systems via end-to-end RL and adaptive credit assignment to improve collaboration and performance.
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Evo-Memory: Benchmarking LLM Agent Test-time Learning with Self-Evolving Memory
Evo-Memory is a new streaming benchmark and evaluation framework for self-evolving memory in LLM agents, unifying over ten memory modules and introducing the ReMem pipeline for continual improvement on multi-turn and reasoning datasets.
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EvolveR: Self-Evolving LLM Agents through an Experience-Driven Lifecycle
EvolveR enables LLM agents to self-evolve via a closed loop of distilling interaction trajectories into strategic principles offline and retrieving them to guide online decisions with policy reinforcement, yielding better results on multi-hop QA benchmarks.
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Dynamic Mixture of Latent Memories for Self-Evolving Agents
MoLEM achieves a 10.40% average accuracy improvement in continual learning tasks across math, science, and code by using dynamic latent memory experts with a frozen base model and stage-specific autoencoders for routing.
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Memory-R2: Fair Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon Memory-Augmented LLM Agents
Memory-R2 proposes LoGo-GRPO to fix unfair trajectory comparisons in RL training of memory-augmented LLM agents by combining global end-to-end rewards with local rerollouts from identical memory states.
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PyraVid: Hierarchical Multimodal Memory for Long-Horizon Video Reasoning
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Reinforced Collaboration in Multi-Agent Flow Networks
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Intermediate Artifacts as First-Class Citizens: A Data Model for Durable Intermediate Artifacts in Agentic Systems
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From Agent Loops to Deterministic Graphs: Execution Lineage for Reproducible AI-Native Work
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Web2BigTable: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent LLM System for Internet-Scale Information Search and Extraction
Web2BigTable introduces a bi-level multi-agent system that achieves new state-of-the-art results on wide-coverage and deep web-to-table search benchmarks through orchestration, coordination, and closed-loop reflection.
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Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering
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A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems
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Improving Sparse Memory Finetuning
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Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models
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Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models
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