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Browse 453 explainers on agent memory, RAG, long-term context, personalization, benchmarks, and memory architectures.

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RAG

Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution

Dianxing Zhang, Wendong Li et al.

arXiv 2025 · 2025

Memory in Large Language Models defines LLM memory via a memory quadruple, a three-regime evaluation protocol, and four memory types: parametric, contextual, external, and procedural/episodic. Memory in Large Language Models’ main result is a deployment-oriented framework that connects mechanisms, layered evaluation, and DMM-Gov dynamic governance into a reproducible, comparable baseline for RAG systems.

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Memory in the Age of AI Agents

Yuyang Hu, Shichun Liu et al.

· 2025

Memory in the Age of AI Agents formalizes agent memory with Memory Formation, Memory Evolution, and Memory Retrieval operators, and classifies memories into token-level, parametric, and latent forms plus factual, experiential, and working functions. Memory in the Age of AI Agents’ main result is a unified Forms–Functions–Dynamics framework that consolidates fragmented LLM agent memory work, benchmarks, and open-source frameworks into a coherent taxonomy.

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Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning

Sikuan Yan, Xiufeng Yang et al.

· 2025

Memory-R1 equips LLM agents with a Memory Manager, Answer Agent, Memory Distillation policy, and PPO/GRPO-based RL training to manage ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, and NOOP operations over an external memory bank. On LoCoMo with LLaMA-3.1-8B-Instruct, Memory-R1-GRPO reaches 45.02 F1, 37.51 BLEU-1, and 62.74 LLM-as-a-Judge versus MemoryOS at 35.04 F1, 27.99 BLEU-1, and 48.20.

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MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System

Zhiyu Li, Chenyang Xi et al.

arXiv 2025 · 2025

MemOS introduces MemCube, MemScheduler, MemOperator, and MemLifecycle to treat plaintext, activation, and parameter memories as first-class resources with unified APIs and governance. MemOS achieves state-of-the-art performance across PreFEval, PersonaMem, LongMemEval, and LoCoMo compared to MIRIX, Mem0, Zep, Memobase, MemU, and Supermemory, though exact benchmark scores are only summarized qualitatively in Figure 1.

Benchmark

MemOS: An Operating System for Memory-Augmented Generation (MAG) in Large Language Models

Zhiyu Li, Shichao Song et al.

· 2025

MemOS standardizes memory as MemCube units orchestrated by MemReader, MemScheduler, MemLifecycle, MemOperator, MemVault, and MemGovernance to manage parametric, activation, and plaintext memory as one system. MemOS does not report benchmark numbers but instead contributes a unified architecture and Memory Interchange Protocol for cross-LLM memory sharing and lifecycle governance.

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Mem-PAL: Towards Memory-based Personalized Dialogue Assistants for Long-term User-Agent Interaction

Zhaopei Huang, Qifeng Dai et al.

· 2025

Mem-PAL uses Log Graph, Background, Topic Outline, and Principle memories to encode long-term user logs and dialogues into structured, retrievable personas. On PAL-Bench’s Requirement Restatement task, H2Memory in Mem-PAL achieves a GPT-4 G-Score of 32.54, +3.21 over Session-level RAG, and boosts BLEU-1 to 26.67 vs 23.81.

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Memp : Exploring Agent Procedural Memory

Runnan Fang, Yuan Liang et al.

· 2025

Memp constructs agent skills via Build, Retrieve, and Update modules that turn past trajectories into scripts, trajectories, and combined proceduralizations stored in a procedural memory library. On ALFWorld, Memp’s proceduralization with GPT-4o reaches 77.86% test success versus 42.14% with no memory, while reducing steps from 23.76 to 15.01.

Agent Memory

MEMTRACK: Evaluating Long-Term Memory and State Tracking in Multi-Platform Dynamic Agent Environments

Darshan Deshpande, Varun Gangal et al.

· 2025

MEMTRACK evaluates long term memory by combining a Containerized Environment, Timeline Generator, Event Parser, and Execution Monitoring with multi platform tools like Slack, Linear, and Git. On the MEMTRACK benchmark, the best performing GPT 5 configuration achieves only a 60% Correctness score, revealing substantial room for improvement over existing memory backends.

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MEPIC: Memory Efficient Position Independent Caching for LLM Serving

Qian Wang, Zahra Yousefijamarani et al.

· 2025

MEPIC extends vLLM with a Chunk Cache Coordinator, Chunk Matcher, Hybrid KV Manager, Chunk LRU Manager, and Chunk Processor to manage canonical, page-aligned, position-independent KV chunks in HBM. On long-context workloads, MEPIC reduces HBM usage by up to 5.21× and lowers latency by up to 11.48% compared to CacheBlend on Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3.

RAG

MeVe: A Modular System for Memory Verification and Effective Context Control in Language Models

Andreas Ottem

· 2025

MeVe decomposes retrieval into Initial Retrieval, Relevance Verification, Fallback Retrieval, Context Prioritization, and Token Budgeting to tightly control what enters the LLM context. On a Wikipedia subset and HotpotQA, MeVe reduces average context from 188.8 to 79.8 tokens and from 308.6 to 78.5 tokens respectively compared to Standard RAG while keeping retrieval time comparable.

Long-Term Memory

M+: Extending MemoryLLM with Scalable Long-Term Memory

Yu Wang, Dmitry Krotov et al.

· 2025

M+ augments short-term memory θ, long-term memory Θ, a co-trained retriever, and a Multi-LoRA design on top of MemoryLLM’s layer-wise memory pools. On SQuAD-style knowledge retention, M+ maintains accuracy beyond 160k tokens while MemoryLLM-7B collapses before 20k and Llama-3.1-8B-SnapKV fails beyond 30k tokens.

Benchmark

MIRIX: Multi-Agent Memory System for LLM-Based Agents

Yu Wang, Xi Chen

· 2025

MIRIX organizes Core Memory, Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, Procedural Memory, Resource Memory, and Knowledge Vault under multi-agent control with Active Retrieval for topic-driven access. On ScreenshotVQA, MIRIX reaches 0.5950 accuracy vs 0.4410 for SigLIP@50 while shrinking storage from 15.07GB to 15.89MB, and on LOCOMO MIRIX scores 85.38% vs 79.09% for Zep.

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MMAG: Mixed Memory-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models Applications

Stefano Zeppieri

· 2025

MMAG organizes conversational memory, long-term user memory, episodic and event-linked memories, sensory and context-aware memory, and short-term working memory under a modular memory controller integrated with Heero’s encrypted Firestore and S3 stores. MMAG delivers a 20% increase in user retention and a 30% increase in average conversation duration on the Heero language learning platform compared to its pre-memory deployment.

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Mnemosyne: An Unsupervised, Human-Inspired Long-Term Memory Architecture for Edge-Based LLMs

Aneesh Jonelagadda, Christina Hahn et al.

· 2025

Mnemosyne combines a Commitment pipeline with substance and redundancy filters, a probabilistic Recall traversal over a graph-structured store, asynchronous Core Summary updates, and a Pruning module to manage long-term memory on edge devices. On the LoCoMo benchmark, Mnemosyne reaches 60.42% temporal reasoning J-score and a 54.55% overall J-score, compared to 51.55% temporal reasoning and 62.74% overall for Memory-R1, and achieves a 65.8% win rate over a 31.07% naive RAG baseline in human evaluations.

Benchmark

MR.Rec: Synergizing Memory and Reasoning for Personalized Recommendation Assistant with LLMs

Jiani Huang, Xingchen Zou et al.

· 2025

MR.Rec unifies User-specific Local Memory, Cross-user Global Memory, Reasoning-enhanced Memory Retrieval, and Reinforcement Learning for Memory-synergized Reasoning into a single recommendation assistant pipeline. On the Amazon-C4–based benchmark, MR.Rec achieves NDCG@100 = 0.113 and Recall@100 = 0.270, improving over the best baseline Rec-R1 (NDCG@100 = 0.104, Recall@100 = 0.260).

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Muon Outperforms Adam in Tail-End Associative Memory Learning

Shuche Wang, Fengzhuo Zhang et al.

· 2025

Muon Outperforms Adam in Tail-End Associative Memory Learning analyzes how VO attention weights, FFN matrices, normalized SVD entropy, and effective rank behave under Muon versus Adam in transformer associative memories. Muon Outperforms Adam in Tail-End Associative Memory Learning finds that applying Muon to VO and FFN nearly recovers full-Muon validation loss (3.5654 vs 3.9242 for All Adam at 10k steps on FineWeb) while improving tail-class accuracy on a heavy-tailed QA task compared to Adam and SGD+Momentum.

BenchmarkAgent Memory

PersonaMem-v2: Towards Personalized Intelligence via Learning Implicit User Personas and Agentic Memory

Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan et al.

· 2025

PersonaMem-v2 combines PERSONAMEM-V2: IMPLICIT PERSONAS, RL with Long-Context Reasoning, RL with Agentic Memory, and a User Privacy-Aware Design to train Qwen3-4B with GRPO on implicit user preferences from long, noisy histories. PersonaMem-v2 achieves 55.2% MCQ and 60.7% open-ended accuracy on PERSONAMEM-V2, surpassing GPT-5-Chat’s 45.6% and 46.2% while using a 2k-token agentic memory instead of full 32k–128k contexts.

Benchmark

Position: Episodic Memory is the Missing Piece for Long-Term LLM Agents

Mathis Pink, Qinyuan Wu et al.

· 2025

Episodic Memory is the Missing Piece for Long-Term LLM Agents proposes an architecture where in-context memory, external memory, and parametric memory are coordinated via consolidation, encoding, and retrieval to realize long-term, instance-specific, contextual episodic traces. Episodic Memory is the Missing Piece for Long-Term LLM Agents contributes a five-property taxonomy, a three-way memory categorization (in-context, external, parametric), and a roadmap of six research questions instead of benchmark gains.

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Pre-Storage Reasoning for Episodic Memory: Shifting Inference Burden to Memory for Personalized Dialogue

Sangyeop Kim, Yohan Lee et al.

· 2025

PREMem builds long term dialogue memory by combining Episodic Memory Extraction, Pre Storage Memory Reasoning, semantic clustering, a persistent memory pool, and an inference phase over enriched memory fragments. PREMem reaches 71.4 LLM as a judge on LongMemEval with gpt 4.1 base, a +15.5 gain over HippoRAG 2 and +9.6 over A Mem.

Benchmark

Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution

Zouying Cao, Jiaji Deng et al.

· 2025

ReMe manages procedural memory through experience acquisition, experience reuse, and experience refinement, combining multi-faceted distillation, context-adaptive reuse, and utility-based deletion into a single lifecycle. On BFCL-V3 and AppWorld, Qwen3-8B with ReMe (dynamic) achieves 34.94% Avg@4 vs 27.65% for the No Memory baseline, and 55.03% Pass@4 vs 46.20%, showing that self-evolving memory can substitute for model scale.

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Semantic Anchoring in Agentic Memory: Leveraging Linguistic Structures for Persistent Conversational Context

Maitreyi Chatterjee, Devansh Agarwal

· 2025

Semantic Anchoring enriches conversational memory by combining a hybrid memory store with dense and symbolic indexes, structured memory representation tuples, hybrid storage and indexing, and a retrieval scoring method. On MultiWOZ-Long, Semantic Anchoring reaches 83.5% Factual Recall and 80.8% Discourse Coherence, beating Entity-RAG by 7.6 and 8.6 points respectively.