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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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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.

R^2-Mem: Reflective Experience for Memory Search

cs.CL · 2026-05-13 · conditional · novelty 7.0

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%.

Belief Memory: Agent Memory Under Partial Observability

cs.AI · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

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.

SAGER: Self-Evolving User Policy Skills for Recommendation Agent

cs.IR · 2026-04-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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.

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.

What Happens Inside Agent Memory? Circuit Analysis from Emergence to Diagnosis

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

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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