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TiMem: Temporal-Hierarchical Memory Consolidation for Long-Horizon Conversational Agents

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Long-horizon conversational agents have to manage ever-growing interaction histories that quickly exceed the finite context windows of large language models (LLMs). Existing memory frameworks provide limited support for temporally structured information across hierarchical levels, often leading to fragmented memories and unstable long-horizon personalization. We present TiMem, a temporal--hierarchical memory framework that organizes conversations through a Temporal Memory Tree (TMT), enabling systematic memory consolidation from raw conversational observations to progressively abstracted persona representations. TiMem is characterized by three core properties: (1) temporal--hierarchical organization through TMT; (2) semantic-guided consolidation that enables memory integration across hierarchical levels without fine-tuning; and (3) complexity-aware memory recall that balances precision and efficiency across queries of varying complexity. Under a consistent evaluation setup, TiMem achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on both benchmarks, reaching 75.30% on LoCoMo and 76.88% on LongMemEval-S. It outperforms all evaluated baselines while reducing the recalled memory length by 52.20% on LoCoMo. Manifold analysis indicates clear persona separation on LoCoMo and reduced dispersion on LongMemEval-S. Overall, TiMem treats temporal continuity as a first-class organizing principle for long-horizon memory in conversational agents. The code is available at https://github.com/TiMEM-AI/timem.

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MemSyco-Bench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Agent Memory

cs.IR · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

MemSyco-Bench is a benchmark covering five tasks to evaluate memory-induced sycophancy in LLM agents, testing rejection of invalid memory, scope respect, conflict resolution, update tracking, and valid personalization.

Four-Axis Decision Alignment for Long-Horizon Enterprise AI Agents

cs.AI · 2026-04-21 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Long-horizon enterprise AI agents' decisions decompose into four measurable axes, with benchmark experiments on six memory architectures revealing distinct weaknesses and reversing a pre-registered prediction on summarization.

Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents

cs.AI · 2026-04-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Deterministic Projection Memory (DPM) delivers stateless, deterministic decision memory for enterprise AI agents that matches or exceeds summarization-based approaches at tight memory budgets while improving speed, determinism, and auditability.

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  • Self-GC: Self-Governing Context for Long-Horizon LLM Agents cs.AI · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 46 · internal anchor

    Self-GC governs agent context as indexed objects with planner-proposed actions, achieving 84.85% no-impact on future continuations on a hard set versus 54-70% for baselines.

  • Recall Isn't Enough: Bounding Commitments in Personalized Language Systems cs.AI · 2026-05-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 6 · internal anchor

    CBEA with LCV bounds evidence sets and validates commitments before response generation, achieving zero failures in scoped tests at 0.49-0.60 availability versus near-zero for baselines.

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    Long-horizon enterprise AI agents' decisions decompose into four measurable axes, with benchmark experiments on six memory architectures revealing distinct weaknesses and reversing a pre-registered prediction on summarization.

  • SAGE: A Self-Evolving Agentic Graph-Memory Engine for Structure-Aware Associative Memory cs.AI · 2026-05-12 · unverdicted · none · ref 237 · internal anchor

    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.

  • Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents cs.AI · 2026-04-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 7 · internal anchor

    Deterministic Projection Memory (DPM) delivers stateless, deterministic decision memory for enterprise AI agents that matches or exceeds summarization-based approaches at tight memory budgets while improving speed, determinism, and auditability.

  • Exploring Cross-Scenario Generality of Agentic Memory Systems: Diagnostics and a Strong Baseline cs.AI · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 19 · internal anchor

    An agentic harness letting the LLM self-manage flat text-file storage via tool calls outperforms eight prior memory systems on cross-scenario generality across QA, chat, trajectory, stress-test, and long-horizon tasks.