Memory benchmark

BEAM

A long-context conversational-memory benchmark with coherent conversations reaching 10M tokens and questions spanning multiple memory abilities.

Scale

  • 100 conversations, up to 10M tokens each, with 2,000 human-validated questions.

Tasks

  • Long-context conversational QA
  • Memory-ability probing
  • Memory-system evaluation

What it measures

  • Recall across dialogue length
  • Multi-hop reasoning
  • Summarization
  • Instruction following

Original research

Beyond a Million Tokens: Benchmarking and Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLMs

This is the paper that introduced BEAM alongside the LIGHT method.

arXiv:2510.27246

Used in the field

Papers evaluated on BEAM

BenchmarkAgent Memory

ATANT v1.1: Positioning Continuity Evaluation Against Memory, Long-Context, and Agentic-Memory Benchmarks

Samuel Sameer Tanguturi

· 2026

ATANT v1.1 structurally analyzes seven benchmarks using the 7 v1.0 continuity properties, the 10 checkpoints, a property-coverage matrix, and the Kenotic v1.0 reference implementation. ATANT v1.1 reports 96% ATANT cumulative-scale versus 8.8% LOCOMO substring accuracy, showing that LOCOMO, LongMemEval, BEAM, MemoryBench, Zep eval, MemGPT/Letta, and RULER measure different properties from continuity.

Benchmark

Breaking the KV Cache Bottleneck: Fan Duality Model Achieves O(1) Decode Memory with Superior Associative Recall

Yasong Fan

· 2026

Fan Duality Model (FDM) uses the Fan Operator, Local-Global Cache, Freeze-Scan Training, and Holographic Reference Beam Decoding to separate wave-like compression from particle-like associative recall. On WikiText-103, Fan Duality Model (FDM) reaches 64.9 perplexity with Freeze-Scan and 62.79 with holographic decoding, while achieving 0.966 MQAR accuracy compared to Transformer at 0.606.