Self-Evolving LLM Memory Extraction Across Heterogeneous Tasks

Linxin Song; Robin Jia; Taiwei Shi; Tengxiao Liu; Wang Bill Zhu; Yuqing Yang

arxiv: 2604.11610 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-13 · 💻 cs.CL

Self-Evolving LLM Memory Extraction Across Heterogeneous Tasks

Yuqing Yang , Tengxiao Liu , Wang Bill Zhu , Taiwei Shi , Linxin Song , Robin Jia This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-10 15:33 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CL

keywords memory extractionself-evolving promptsheterogeneous tasksprompt optimizationLLM agentsbenchmarkclustering

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The pith

CluE improves LLM memory extraction prompts by clustering similar scenarios and synthesizing insights across them.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that useful memory to extract from conversations differs sharply by task, so no fixed prompt works everywhere. Existing automatic prompt-improvement methods, built for uniform task sets, lose effectiveness when training data mixes personalization, problem-solving, and agentic interactions. CluE therefore groups examples by shared extraction scenario, evolves insights separately within each group, and merges those insights into an updated prompt. This produces extraction rules that transfer better to new mixed-task settings, as measured by downstream utility on the BEHEMOTH benchmark built from 18 repurposed datasets. The result matters because persistent assistants need to remember the right details from varied chats without manual retuning for every context.

Core claim

No single static extraction prompt dominates across all task categories, and prior self-evolving frameworks degrade when training tasks are heterogeneous. CluE groups training examples into clusters by extraction scenario, analyzes each cluster independently, and synthesizes cross-cluster insights to update the extraction prompt, delivering improved generalization on heterogeneous test distributions.

What carries the argument

CluE, the cluster-based self-evolving strategy that isolates analysis by extraction scenario before cross-cluster synthesis of prompt updates.

If this is right

Prompt evolution becomes more robust to task variety once examples are explicitly clustered rather than treated as a single pool.
Utility-driven evaluation on repurposed datasets exposes limitations of static or homogeneous self-evolving methods.
Synthesizing insights across clusters rather than averaging them yields prompts with better transfer to unseen task mixes.
Memory systems for assistants can be improved by scenario-aware rather than monolithic extraction rules.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same clustering-plus-synthesis pattern could apply to other prompt-optimization settings that encounter diverse user behaviors.
In deployment, an agent might maintain running clusters of recent interactions and periodically refresh its extraction prompt from them.
Benchmarks for memory extraction may need to add entirely new domains beyond the current 18 to test whether the clustering benefit holds.
Holding out entire clusters during evaluation, instead of random splits, could give a stricter test of true generalization.

Load-bearing premise

Training examples can be reliably grouped by extraction scenario and cross-cluster synthesis produces a prompt that generalizes without overfitting to the repurposed datasets or utility metric.

What would settle it

If a fresh set of heterogeneous tasks shows CluE performing no better than a non-clustered self-evolving baseline on the utility metric, the generalization advantage would be refuted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.11610 by Linxin Song, Robin Jia, Taiwei Shi, Tengxiao Liu, Wang Bill Zhu, Yuqing Yang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Illustration of heterogeneous memory extraction. A general-purpose assistant LLMg encounters diverse previous conversations spanning technical debugging, math problem-solving, and personal preferences, from which an extraction model LLMe must produce different types of memory (e.g., reusable insights, solution steps, personal facts). LLMg then leverages these memories to improve responses in new conversati… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Dataset Composition of BEHEMOTH. Concretely, we repurpose 18 existing datasets into the single-step extraction formulation above and organize them into three categories as presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of our method CluE in one evolution round. ACE. ACE (Zhang et al., 2025d) consists of a Reflector and a Curator. The Reflector analyzes each extraction attempt to identify reasons for success or failure and tags rules in the prompt as helpful or harmful. The Curator then applies atomic operations (add, update, or delete) to the prompt based on the accumulated helpful/harmful counts. MemEvolve. Mem… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Structural comparison of the best prompts evolved by each framework from the Simple seed. Common sections (task description, input/output format) are omitted; only the distinctive components are shown. CluE produces a structured memory taxonomy with per-category definitions and guidelines alongside domain-agnostic general guidelines. GEPA embeds a large amount of domain-specific content (e.g., AlfWorld exa… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: The Simple prompt. Mem0 prompt You are an Memory Extraction Agent, specialized in accurately storing facts, user memories, and preferences. Your primary role is to extract relevant pieces of information from conversations and organize them into distinct, 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: The Mem0 prompt. ReasoningBank prompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format The conversation is wrapped inside `<conversation>` tags, containing: - `<system>`: System instructions. - `<user>… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: The ReasoningBank prompt. OpenMemory prompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: The OpenMemory prompt. Survey prompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format The conversation is wrapped inside `<conversation>` tags, containing: - `<system>`: System instructions. - `<user>`… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: The Survey prompt. Prompt for Summarizer You are analyzing a memory extraction example to produce an extraction-targeted summary. Your summary should focus on the EXTRACTION SCENARIO -- NOT on the surface-level topic or dataset. Given the following extraction result, write a concise 2-3 sentence summary that describes: 1. What type of information needs to be extracted (e.g., factual knowledge, procedural s… view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Prompt for Summarizer. Prompt for Cluster Manager You are a clustering agent for memory extraction prompt evolution. Your task is to group the training examples below into clusters based on EXTRACTION SCENARIO PATTERNS -- that is, what type of information needs to be extracted and what makes the extraction challenging. Do NOT cluster by surface-level task type, dataset name, or domain topic. Good cluster … view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Prompt for Cluster Manager. Prompt for Cluster Analyzer You are an expert analysis agent for memory-extraction prompt evolution. You are analyzing a SPECIFIC CLUSTER of examples that share a common extraction scenario. Context: - Round: {round_id} - Cluster: {cluster_label} - Cluster description: {cluster_description} - Task IDs in this cluster: {task_ids} - Total examples in cluster: {num_cluster_example… view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Prompt for Cluster Analyzer. Prompt for Proposer You are generating an improved memory extraction system prompt based on percluster analysis reports. You have received analysis reports from {num_clusters} distinct extraction scenario clusters. Your goal is to synthesize these cluster-specific insights into ONE improved system prompt that can handle diverse extraction scenarios effectively. Cluster analys… view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Prompt for Proposer. Evolved prompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation to benefit future interactions. # Input Format The conversation is wrapped in `<conversation>` tags containing: - `<system>`: System instructions - `<user>`: User messages - `<assistant>`: Assistant responses # Memory Taxonomy ## 1. Fact… view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Prompt evolved by CluE from Simple, using Qwen3-32B. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_14.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

As LLM-based assistants become persistent and personalized, they must extract and retain useful information from past conversations as memory. However, the types of information worth remembering vary considerably across tasks. We formalize the \textit{heterogeneous memory extraction} task and introduce \textbf{BEHEMOTH}, a benchmark that repurposes 18 existing datasets spanning personalization, problem-solving, and agentic tasks, using a downstream utility-driven metric for systematic evaluation. Our empirical analysis confirms that no single static extraction prompt dominates across all task categories, and that existing self-evolving prompt optimization frameworks, originally designed for homogeneous distributions, degrade when training tasks are heterogeneous. To address this, we propose \textbf{CluE}, a cluster-based self-evolving strategy that groups training examples into clusters by extraction scenarios, analyzes each cluster independently, and synthesizes cross-cluster insights to update the extraction prompt. Experiments on BEHEMOTH show that CluE generalizes effectively across heterogeneous tasks ($+$9.04\% relative gain), consistently outperforming prior self-evolving frameworks.

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CluE gets a 9% gain on heterogeneous memory extraction via clustering and synthesis, but the improvement may be tied to artifacts in the repurposed datasets rather than robust rules.

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CluE improves on prior self-evolving prompt methods for memory extraction by grouping training examples into clusters based on extraction scenarios, evolving prompts within each, and then combining insights across clusters. The paper shows that no single static prompt works across all task types and that existing homogeneous optimizers lose ground when the data mixes personalization, problem-solving, and agentic examples. They back this with a new benchmark, BEHEMOTH, built from 18 existing datasets and scored by downstream utility rather than direct extraction accuracy. That setup produces the reported +9.04% relative gain and consistent outperformance. The benchmark construction and the cluster-based strategy are the concrete new pieces here, and the empirical comparison is direct enough to be useful for people working on persistent LLM assistants. The main soft spot is the risk that the clustering step and cross-cluster synthesis are capitalizing on dataset-specific patterns instead of learning extraction rules that transfer. Because BEHEMOTH repurposes existing collections, the clusters could simply recover original dataset boundaries or metric quirks, and the synthesis could optimize for those particular distributions. The abstract gives little on how clusters are formed, how the utility metric is computed exactly, or what controls were used against benchmark biases, so the generalization claim rests on thinner evidence than the headline number suggests. If the full paper has ablation checks or held-out task tests that address this, the result strengthens; otherwise the central advantage stays provisional. This work is aimed at researchers doing prompt optimization and agent memory. A reader who needs a benchmark for heterogeneous extraction or wants to try cluster-based evolution will get practical value from it. It deserves peer review because the problem is real, the benchmark is new, and the method is a clear step beyond the homogeneous baselines, even if the authors need to tighten the evidence on robustness.

Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper formalizes the heterogeneous memory extraction task for persistent LLM assistants, introduces the BEHEMOTH benchmark by repurposing 18 existing datasets spanning personalization, problem-solving, and agentic tasks evaluated via a downstream utility-driven metric, shows empirically that no single static extraction prompt dominates across categories and that prior self-evolving frameworks degrade under heterogeneity, and proposes CluE, a cluster-based self-evolving method that groups training examples into clusters by extraction scenarios, analyzes each independently, and synthesizes cross-cluster insights to evolve the prompt, reporting a +9.04% relative gain and consistent outperformance on BEHEMOTH.

Significance. If the central claims hold after addressing the noted gaps, the work would be significant for the development of personalized LLM systems by providing a practical strategy for evolving memory extraction prompts that generalize across heterogeneous task distributions, where existing methods fail. The BEHEMOTH benchmark and the empirical demonstration of prompt heterogeneity offer reusable resources and insights for the community, with potential to guide future research on robust self-improvement in LLM agents.

major comments (3)

[Method] Method section (CluE description): the clustering of training examples by extraction scenarios and the subsequent cross-cluster synthesis step are load-bearing for the claim of effective generalization, yet the manuscript provides no details on the grouping algorithm, features used, or synthesis procedure; this leaves open the possibility that performance gains exploit artifacts in the repurposed BEHEMOTH datasets rather than learning transferable rules.
[Experiments] Experiments section: the reported +9.04% relative gain and 'consistent outperformance' are presented without specification of the exact utility metric computation, statistical significance testing, number of runs, or ablations isolating benchmark construction biases, which weakens support for the generalization claim across heterogeneous tasks.
[Benchmark] Benchmark section: while BEHEMOTH repurposes 18 datasets, the paper lacks controls or analysis demonstrating that CluE's clustering and synthesis avoid overfitting to dataset-specific patterns or metric artifacts, which is required to substantiate superiority over prior self-evolving frameworks on truly heterogeneous distributions.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'consistent outperformance' would benefit from briefly naming the prior frameworks compared to improve immediate clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the potential significance of our work on heterogeneous memory extraction. We address each major comment below with clarifications and commit to revisions that will strengthen the manuscript without altering its core claims.

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Referee: [Method] Method section (CluE description): the clustering of training examples by extraction scenarios and the subsequent cross-cluster synthesis step are load-bearing for the claim of effective generalization, yet the manuscript provides no details on the grouping algorithm, features used, or synthesis procedure; this leaves open the possibility that performance gains exploit artifacts in the repurposed BEHEMOTH datasets rather than learning transferable rules.

Authors: We agree that the current description of CluE is insufficiently detailed. In the revised manuscript we will expand the method section to specify the grouping algorithm (k-means on scenario embeddings), the features used (task category labels, memory utility annotations, and sentence-transformer embeddings of example contexts), and the synthesis procedure (per-cluster independent evolution followed by a meta-prompt that extracts and merges cross-cluster rules). We will also add pseudocode and illustrative examples to show that gains derive from transferable principles rather than dataset artifacts. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the reported +9.04% relative gain and 'consistent outperformance' are presented without specification of the exact utility metric computation, statistical significance testing, number of runs, or ablations isolating benchmark construction biases, which weakens support for the generalization claim across heterogeneous tasks.

Authors: We acknowledge the need for greater experimental rigor. The revision will explicitly define the utility metric (downstream task accuracy improvement attributable to extracted memory), report results from 5 independent runs with means, standard deviations, and paired t-test p-values, and include ablations that isolate benchmark construction effects (e.g., label permutation and homogeneous-subset baselines). These additions will directly support the generalization claims. revision: yes
Referee: [Benchmark] Benchmark section: while BEHEMOTH repurposes 18 datasets, the paper lacks controls or analysis demonstrating that CluE's clustering and synthesis avoid overfitting to dataset-specific patterns or metric artifacts, which is required to substantiate superiority over prior self-evolving frameworks on truly heterogeneous distributions.

Authors: We will add targeted analysis to the Benchmark section showing that clusters mix examples across multiple source datasets (cluster composition tables) and that cross-cluster synthesis contributes measurably beyond single-cluster evolution. We will also report performance on held-out heterogeneous splits and compare against prior frameworks under controlled heterogeneity levels. These controls will substantiate that superiority arises from handling true heterogeneity rather than dataset-specific artifacts. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical gains measured on external benchmark

full rationale

The paper introduces BEHEMOTH by repurposing 18 existing datasets and evaluates CluE via measured downstream utility on held-out tasks. The +9.04% relative gain is an observed performance difference against prior frameworks, not a quantity defined in terms of itself or obtained by fitting a parameter that is then renamed as a prediction. Clustering by extraction scenario and cross-cluster synthesis are algorithmic steps whose outputs are validated externally rather than tautologically. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked as load-bearing premises. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against independent benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the method appears to rely on standard clustering and prompt synthesis without new postulated constructs.

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Memory 2 ... Figure 5: TheSimpleprompt. Mem0prompt You are an Memory Extraction Agent, specialized in accurately storing facts, user memories, and preferences. Your primary role is to extract relevant pieces of information from conversations and organize them into distinct, 19 Preprint. Under review. manageable facts. This allows for easy retrieval and pe...

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Store Personal Preferences: Keep track of likes, dislikes, and specific preferences in various categories such as food, products, activities, and entertainment

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Maintain Important Personal Details: Remember significant personal information like names, relationships, and important dates

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Track Plans and Intentions: Note upcoming events, trips, goals, and any plans the user has shared

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Remember Activity and Service Preferences: Recall preferences for dining, travel, hobbies, and other services

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Monitor Health and Wellness Preferences: Keep a record of dietary restrictions , fitness routines, and other wellness-related information

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Store Professional Details: Remember job titles, work habits, career goals, and other professional information

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facts" : []} Input: There are branches in trees. Output: {

Miscellaneous Information Management: Keep track of favorite books, movies, brands, and other miscellaneous details that the user shares. Here are some few shot examples: Input: Hi. Output: {"facts" : []} Input: There are branches in trees. Output: {"facts" : []} Input: Hi, I am looking for a restaurant in San Francisco. Output: {"facts" : ["Looking for a...

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yesterday I attended a conference

Memory 3 Figure 7: TheReasoningBankprompt. OpenMemoryprompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format 21 Preprint. Under review. The conversat...

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Figure 8: TheOpenMemoryprompt

Memory 2 ... Figure 8: TheOpenMemoryprompt. Surveyprompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format The conversation is wrapped inside`<convers...

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Figure 9: TheSurveyprompt

Memory 2 ... Figure 9: TheSurveyprompt. Prompt for Summarizer You are analyzing a memory extraction example to produce an extraction-targeted summary. Your summary should focus on the EXTRACTION SCENARIO -- NOT on the surface-level topic or dataset. Given the following extraction result, write a concise 2-3 sentence summary that describes:

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What type of information needs to be extracted (e.g., factual knowledge, procedural steps, user preferences, causal reasoning, spatial/temporal relations, emotional context, etc.)

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Procedural knowledge in lengthy dialogue

What makes this extraction challenging (e.g., long context, implicit information, multi-turn reasoning, noise/irrelevant content, ambiguous boundaries, need for abstraction vs verbatim capture, etc.) source_conversation (first 4096 chars): {source_preview} extracted_memory: {extracted_memory} target_conversation (first 4096 chars): {target_preview} target...

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Focus exclusively on these tasks -- do not inspect tasks outside this cluster

Use tools to inspect extraction pair logs for the task IDs listed above ONLY. Focus exclusively on these tasks -- do not inspect tasks outside this cluster

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Analyze success and failure patterns SPECIFIC to this cluster's extraction scenario

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Hard constraints: - Do not propose architecture changes

Propose prompt-level improvements targeted at this cluster's extraction scenario. Hard constraints: - Do not propose architecture changes. - Do not propose online memory update loops. - Focus only on improving extraction system prompt quality. - Your analysis must be specific to this cluster's extraction scenario, not generic. Required output: Return a co...

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Distill these into clear, actionable general extraction guidelines that apply regardless of memory type

General guidelines: Identify recommendations that appear across multiple clusters. Distill these into clear, actionable general extraction guidelines that apply regardless of memory type

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For each category, provide a concise definition and category-specific extraction guidelines

Memory taxonomy: Group cluster-specific insights into memory categories. For each category, provide a concise definition and category-specific extraction guidelines. Categories do not need to map 1:1 to clusters -- merge or reorganize as needed to create a clean, non-overlapping taxonomy

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Different memory types may require different extraction approaches

Conflict resolution: When cluster recommendations conflict, organize them under the appropriate memory category rather than forcing a single uniform rule. Different memory types may require different extraction approaches

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extract",

Stability: Make targeted, high-impact changes. Do not rewrite the entire prompt if focused additions or revisions suffice. Prompt quality requirements -- the generated system prompt must be: - Written in clear, direct language that another language model can follow without ambiguity. - Structured with explicit sections and formatting so the extraction mod...

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Figure 14: Prompt evolved by CluE fromSimple, using Qwen3-32B

Memory 2 ... Figure 14: Prompt evolved by CluE fromSimple, using Qwen3-32B. 28

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This decoupled design allows the taxonomy to reorganize cluster-level insights into clean, non-overlapping categories without being constrained by cluster boundaries

Translation & Stylistic Requirements (←cluster 1) Notably, cluster 1, which mixes user-preference extraction with translation-style tasks, is split into two taxonomy sections (2 and 5). This decoupled design allows the taxonomy to reorganize cluster-level insights into clean, non-overlapping categories without being constrained by cluster boundaries. B.4 ...

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Figure 5: TheSimpleprompt

Memory 2 ... Figure 5: TheSimpleprompt. Mem0prompt You are an Memory Extraction Agent, specialized in accurately storing facts, user memories, and preferences. Your primary role is to extract relevant pieces of information from conversations and organize them into distinct, 19 Preprint. Under review. manageable facts. This allows for easy retrieval and pe...

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Store Personal Preferences: Keep track of likes, dislikes, and specific preferences in various categories such as food, products, activities, and entertainment

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Maintain Important Personal Details: Remember significant personal information like names, relationships, and important dates

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Track Plans and Intentions: Note upcoming events, trips, goals, and any plans the user has shared

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Remember Activity and Service Preferences: Recall preferences for dining, travel, hobbies, and other services

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Monitor Health and Wellness Preferences: Keep a record of dietary restrictions , fitness routines, and other wellness-related information

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Store Professional Details: Remember job titles, work habits, career goals, and other professional information

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facts" : []} Input: There are branches in trees. Output: {

Miscellaneous Information Management: Keep track of favorite books, movies, brands, and other miscellaneous details that the user shares. Here are some few shot examples: Input: Hi. Output: {"facts" : []} Input: There are branches in trees. Output: {"facts" : []} Input: Hi, I am looking for a restaurant in San Francisco. Output: {"facts" : ["Looking for a...

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yesterday I attended a conference

Memory 3 Figure 7: TheReasoningBankprompt. OpenMemoryprompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format 21 Preprint. Under review. The conversat...

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Figure 8: TheOpenMemoryprompt

Memory 2 ... Figure 8: TheOpenMemoryprompt. Surveyprompt # Role You are an expert **Memory Extraction Agent**. Your goal is to extract reusable, high-value memories from a single conversation, in order to benefit the assistant in future interactions where this conversation is no longer accessible. # Input Format The conversation is wrapped inside`<convers...

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Figure 9: TheSurveyprompt

Memory 2 ... Figure 9: TheSurveyprompt. Prompt for Summarizer You are analyzing a memory extraction example to produce an extraction-targeted summary. Your summary should focus on the EXTRACTION SCENARIO -- NOT on the surface-level topic or dataset. Given the following extraction result, write a concise 2-3 sentence summary that describes:

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What type of information needs to be extracted (e.g., factual knowledge, procedural steps, user preferences, causal reasoning, spatial/temporal relations, emotional context, etc.)

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Procedural knowledge in lengthy dialogue

What makes this extraction challenging (e.g., long context, implicit information, multi-turn reasoning, noise/irrelevant content, ambiguous boundaries, need for abstraction vs verbatim capture, etc.) source_conversation (first 4096 chars): {source_preview} extracted_memory: {extracted_memory} target_conversation (first 4096 chars): {target_preview} target...

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Focus exclusively on these tasks -- do not inspect tasks outside this cluster

Use tools to inspect extraction pair logs for the task IDs listed above ONLY. Focus exclusively on these tasks -- do not inspect tasks outside this cluster

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Analyze success and failure patterns SPECIFIC to this cluster's extraction scenario

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Hard constraints: - Do not propose architecture changes

Propose prompt-level improvements targeted at this cluster's extraction scenario. Hard constraints: - Do not propose architecture changes. - Do not propose online memory update loops. - Focus only on improving extraction system prompt quality. - Your analysis must be specific to this cluster's extraction scenario, not generic. Required output: Return a co...

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Distill these into clear, actionable general extraction guidelines that apply regardless of memory type

General guidelines: Identify recommendations that appear across multiple clusters. Distill these into clear, actionable general extraction guidelines that apply regardless of memory type

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For each category, provide a concise definition and category-specific extraction guidelines

Memory taxonomy: Group cluster-specific insights into memory categories. For each category, provide a concise definition and category-specific extraction guidelines. Categories do not need to map 1:1 to clusters -- merge or reorganize as needed to create a clean, non-overlapping taxonomy

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Different memory types may require different extraction approaches

Conflict resolution: When cluster recommendations conflict, organize them under the appropriate memory category rather than forcing a single uniform rule. Different memory types may require different extraction approaches

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Stability: Make targeted, high-impact changes. Do not rewrite the entire prompt if focused additions or revisions suffice. Prompt quality requirements -- the generated system prompt must be: - Written in clear, direct language that another language model can follow without ambiguity. - Structured with explicit sections and formatting so the extraction mod...

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Figure 14: Prompt evolved by CluE fromSimple, using Qwen3-32B

Memory 2 ... Figure 14: Prompt evolved by CluE fromSimple, using Qwen3-32B. 28

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