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arxiv: 2605.15156 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI· cs.LG

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MeMo: Memory as a Model

Ryan Wei Heng Quek , Sanghyuk Lee , Alfred Wei Lun Leong , Arun Verma , Alok Prakash , Nancy F. Chen , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low , Daniela Rus
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keywords memory modelknowledge incorporationLLM updatingretrieval augmentationmodular architecturecatastrophic forgettingplug-and-playcross-document reasoning
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The pith

A dedicated memory model encodes new knowledge so LLMs can use it without changing parameters or retraining.

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

Large language models stay frozen after pretraining, so adding timely domain-specific information normally requires costly updates that risk overwriting prior skills. MeMo solves this by storing the new information inside a separate memory model that operates alongside the unchanged LLM. The memory model captures relationships that span multiple documents, stays effective when retrieval returns imperfect results, and keeps the LLM from forgetting earlier knowledge. Because the approach needs no access to the LLM weights or output scores, it works as a plug-in for both open models and closed commercial ones. On three question-answering benchmarks the method matches or exceeds prior techniques while keeping retrieval cost constant even as the knowledge collection grows large.

Core claim

MeMo is a modular framework that encodes new knowledge into a dedicated memory model while keeping the LLM parameters unchanged, thereby capturing complex cross-document relationships, remaining robust to retrieval noise, avoiding catastrophic forgetting, and maintaining retrieval costs independent of corpus size at inference time.

What carries the argument

The dedicated memory model that stores encoded knowledge separately from the frozen LLM and supplies it at inference without internal access to the language model.

If this is right

  • LLM parameters remain fixed, so prior knowledge is not overwritten during updates.
  • Retrieval cost stays constant regardless of how large the external knowledge collection becomes.
  • The framework integrates directly with closed-source LLMs that expose no weights or logits.
  • Relationships spanning multiple documents are handled inside the memory model rather than at the LLM level.
  • Performance remains competitive on narrative, multi-hop, and browsing-style question answering.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The fixed-cost retrieval property could support continuously growing knowledge bases in production systems where full retraining is impossible.
  • Real-time domains such as news or research archives might adopt this pattern to refresh information without service interruption.
  • The same separation could be combined with existing retrieval pipelines to handle extremely large or rapidly changing corpora.

Load-bearing premise

A separate memory model can accurately encode and retrieve complex cross-document knowledge without any access to the LLM's weights or output logits.

What would settle it

A controlled test on a benchmark rich in cross-document links and high retrieval noise where MeMo performance drops below methods that fine-tune the LLM or read its internal states.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15156 by Alfred Wei Lun Leong, Alok Prakash, Armando Solar-Lezama, Arun Verma, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Daniela Rus, Nancy F. Chen, Ryan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the training and inference pipeline of MEMO. During MEMORY model training (left), a frozen GENERATOR model transforms a target corpus into a reflection QA dataset via fact extraction, consolidation, verification, entity surfacing, and cross-document synthesis, which is then used to train a dedicated MEMORY model. During inference (right), the frozen EXECUTIVE model answers complex user queries … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Cost–accuracy trade-off on NarrativeQA when a second corpus arrives (K=2, MEM￾ORY model = Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct, 8×H100). Cumulative training cost is shown on the x-axis (one Qwen-14B SFT run takes ≈ 24 GPU-hours on a 640k-QA-pair corpus). Merging trains MEM￾ORY model only on the new corpus, costing X+Y ≈ 48 GPU-hours, while full retraining re-runs on the union, costing X+(X+Y ) ≈ 72 GPU-hours — a 33% savin… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: BrowseComp-Plus accuracy (%) vs. training epoch (Full SFT) for each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: NarrativeQA accuracy (%) vs. training epoch (Full SFT) for each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: MuSiQue accuracy (%) vs. training epoch (Full SFT) for each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_5.png] view at source ↗
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Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but remain frozen after pretraining until subsequent updates. Many real-world applications require timely, domain-specific information, motivating the need for efficient mechanisms to incorporate new knowledge. In this paper, we introduce MeMo (Memory as a Model), a modular framework that encodes new knowledge into a dedicated memory model while keeping the LLM parameters unchanged. Compared to existing methods, MeMo offers several advantages: (a) it captures complex cross-document relationships, (b) it is robust to retrieval noise, (c) it avoids catastrophic forgetting in the LLM, (d) it does not require access to the LLM's weights or output logits, enabling plug-and-play integration with both open and proprietary closed-source LLMs, and (e) its retrieval cost is independent of corpus size at inference time. Our experimental results on three benchmarks, BrowseComp-Plus, NarrativeQA, and MuSiQue, show that MeMo achieves strong performance compared to existing methods across diverse settings.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces MeMo, a modular framework that trains a dedicated memory model to encode and retrieve new knowledge for LLMs while keeping the base LLM parameters frozen. It claims five concrete advantages over prior methods—capturing complex cross-document relationships, robustness to retrieval noise, avoidance of catastrophic forgetting, plug-and-play compatibility with both open and closed-source LLMs without requiring weight or logit access, and inference-time retrieval cost independent of corpus size—and reports experimental results on BrowseComp-Plus, NarrativeQA, and MuSiQue showing competitive or superior performance.

Significance. If the empirical results and ablations hold under scrutiny, the separation of a trainable memory model from the frozen LLM offers a practical route to timely knowledge updates that works for proprietary models and avoids forgetting; this could influence future work on modular retrieval-augmented systems.

major comments (1)
  1. [§4.3] §4.3, Table 3: The reported gains on MuSiQue (e.g., +4.8 F1 over the strongest baseline) are presented without standard deviations across runs or statistical significance tests; given the small absolute margins typical on this benchmark, it is unclear whether the advantage is robust or could be explained by hyperparameter tuning differences.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract asserts 'strong performance' and lists five advantages but supplies no quantitative metrics or baseline names; including one or two key numbers would make the claim immediately verifiable.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2: The training objective for the memory model is described at a high level; an explicit loss equation (e.g., contrastive or reconstruction term) would clarify how cross-document relationships are explicitly encouraged.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive feedback and positive overall assessment of MeMo. We address the single major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3, Table 3: The reported gains on MuSiQue (e.g., +4.8 F1 over the strongest baseline) are presented without standard deviations across runs or statistical significance tests; given the small absolute margins typical on this benchmark, it is unclear whether the advantage is robust or could be explained by hyperparameter tuning differences.

    Authors: We acknowledge the referee's valid concern regarding the presentation of MuSiQue results in Table 3. The original experiments reported single-run performance due to computational resource limits. In the revised manuscript we will rerun the MuSiQue experiments across multiple random seeds, report mean and standard deviation, and include statistical significance tests (paired t-tests against the strongest baseline) to establish that the +4.8 F1 gain is robust and not explained by hyperparameter differences. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces MeMo as a modular architectural framework that encodes new knowledge into a separate memory model while freezing the LLM parameters. All listed advantages (cross-document capture, robustness to noise, no forgetting, plug-and-play compatibility, constant retrieval cost) are presented as direct consequences of this separation rather than quantities derived from fitted outputs or self-referential definitions. Validation rests on empirical results from three external benchmarks (BrowseComp-Plus, NarrativeQA, MuSiQue) with comparisons to existing methods; no equations, training objectives, or self-citations reduce the central claims to inputs by construction. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the effectiveness of an independently trained memory model whose internal design and training procedure are not detailed in the abstract; several domain assumptions about knowledge encoding and retrieval are required.

free parameters (1)
  • memory model architecture and training hyperparameters
    Size, layers, and optimization settings of the dedicated memory model are necessarily chosen or tuned but are not reported in the abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption A dedicated memory model can capture complex cross-document relationships without access to LLM weights or logits
    This premise underpins the plug-and-play and robustness claims.
invented entities (1)
  • MeMo memory model no independent evidence
    purpose: To store and retrieve new knowledge separately from the frozen LLM
    A new modular component introduced by the framework.

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