CreaMem: A Scene-Aware Memory Architecture for Personalized Agents

AuthorsQixuan Sun, Yue Que, Bowei He et al.

arXiv 20262026

TL;DR

CreaMem uses scene-aware Life Scene Memories plus dual episodic–trait encoding to reach 66.40% 4o-Judge accuracy on LongMemEval-S, +6.20 points over MemGAS.

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THE PROBLEM

Cross scene interference and single perspective memories hurt long term agents

Existing long term memory systems lack scene awareness, so unrelated life scenes share one retrieval space, causing inflated search and cross scene interference.

They also encode each experience from a single perspective, making it hard to retrieve complementary episodic and trait based views needed for multi hop reasoning.

HOW IT WORKS

CreaMem — scene aware dual coded memory

CreaMem’s core mechanism combines a Meta Memory Manager, Episodic Memory, three Life Scene Memories, a Core Memory, and a Planner LLM with per memory balanced retrieval.

You can think of CreaMem like a card catalog split into Life, Work, and Interest drawers, plus a chronological diary, all coordinated by a librarian Planner LLM.

This design lets CreaMem route experiences by scene, store dual episodic and trait codes, and retrieve balanced views that a plain context window or flat vector store cannot.

DIAGRAM

Query time retrieval and fusion in CreaMem

This diagram shows how CreaMem processes a user question through memory selection, per memory balanced retrieval, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion.

DIAGRAM

Evaluation and ablation design for CreaMem

This diagram shows how CreaMem is evaluated on LoCoMo and LongMemEval-S and how ablations modify memory components.

PROCESS

How CreaMem Handles a Long Term Question

  1. 01

    Meta Memory Manager

    The Meta Memory Manager routes each incoming message into relevant Life, Work, Interest, Episodic, and Core Memory components, following a wide entry strict filtering policy.

  2. 02

    Memory Storage

    Memory Storage uses component specific LLM extractors to create episodic tuples and scene traits, merging or inserting entries into SQLite backed Episodic Memory and Life Scene Memories.

  3. 03

    Memory Retrieval

    Memory Retrieval lets the Planner LLM select Core, Episodic, Life, Work, and Interest, then performs per memory hybrid BM25 plus embedding retrieval with balanced sampling.

  4. 04

    Reciprocal Rank Fusion

    Reciprocal Rank Fusion globally re ranks candidates from all memories, and CreaMem inserts the top N entries into the prompt for response generation.

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

Key Contributions

  • 01

    Scene aware memory partitioning

    CreaMem partitions memory into Episodic Memory, three Life Scene Memories for Life, Work, Interest, and a Core Memory, reducing cross scene interference during retrieval.

  • 02

    Dual episodic and trait encoding

    CreaMem stores each experience as a structured episodic tuple and a scene specific trait, enabling cross memory synergy via per memory balanced sampling at retrieval time.

  • 03

    Improved multi hop reasoning

    On LoCoMo and LongMemEval S, CreaMem improves 4o Judge accuracy to 54.61% and 66.40%, with ablations showing that cross memory synergy accounts for most of the gain.

RESULTS

By the Numbers

4o-J

66.40%

+6.20 over MemGAS on LongMemEval-S

F1

20.71%

vs 20.38% for MemGAS on LongMemEval-S

4o-J

54.61%

+8.99 over HippoRAG 2 on LoCoMo

Avg. Tokens

7,250

uses far fewer tokens than Full History at 103,137 on LongMemEval-S

On LoCoMo and LongMemEval S, which test long term conversational memory and multi session retention, CreaMem consistently achieves the highest 4o Judge accuracy among all baselines. These results show that scene aware dual coded memory organization yields better retrieval than flat or purely structural systems at similar or lower token budgets.

BENCHMARK

By the Numbers

On LoCoMo and LongMemEval S, which test long term conversational memory and multi session retention, CreaMem consistently achieves the highest 4o Judge accuracy among all baselines. These results show that scene aware dual coded memory organization yields better retrieval than flat or purely structural systems at similar or lower token budgets.

BENCHMARK

Main results on LongMemEval-S

4o-Judge Acc (%) on LongMemEval-S for CreaMem and strong baselines.

BENCHMARK

Main results on LoCoMo

4o-Judge Acc (%) on LoCoMo for CreaMem and strong baselines.

KEY INSIGHT

The Counterintuitive Finding

CreaMem’s Full System beats Episodic only by 9.2 points on overall Gemini 3 Judge accuracy, while actually using fewer tokens per query.

This is surprising because many assume that more raw episodic context always helps, but CreaMem shows that structured dual encoding and balanced sampling can be both shorter and more accurate.

WHY IT MATTERS

What this unlocks for the field

CreaMem unlocks long term agents that can reason over months of interactions using scene aware, dual coded memories instead of monolithic history dumps.

Builders can now design agents that keep separate Life, Work, and Interest personas, answer temporal and trait questions jointly, and scale memory without exploding context windows.

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