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Browse 314 explainers on agent memory, RAG, long-term context, personalization, benchmarks, and memory architectures.

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Benchmark

ARKV: Adaptive and Resource-Efficient KV Cache Management under Limited Memory Budget for Long-Context Inference in LLMs

Jianlong Lei, Shashikant Ilager

· 2026

ARKV dynamically combines Per-layer OQ ratio estimation, Token importance scoring, and Tri-state cache assignment to manage KV cache precision under a global memory budget. On LongBench, ARKV reaches 0.972 relative performance versus 0.979 for Origin while achieving 4× KV memory reduction and maintaining ~86% Tokens Per Second.

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Ask Only When Needed: Proactive Retrieval from Memory and Skills for Experience-Driven Lifelong Agents

Yuxuan Cai, Jie Zhou et al.

· 2026

PROACTAGENT combines Experience-Enhanced Online Evolution (EXPONEVO), a structured EXPERIENCE BASE, and Proactive Reinforcement Learning-based Retrieval (PROACTRL) to jointly evolve memory and policy with retrieval as an explicit action. On SciWorld, PROACTAGENT reaches 73.50% SR versus 55.50% for GRPO+Reflexion, while cutting interaction rounds from 27.52 to 18.38.

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A Survey on the Security of Long-Term Memory in LLM Agents: Toward Mnemonic Sovereignty

Zehao Lin, Chunyu Li, Kai Chen

· 2026

Mnemonic Sovereignty analyzes long term Write, Store, Retrieve, Execute, Share, and Forget Rollback phases against integrity, confidentiality, availability, and governance objectives for agent memory. Mnemonic Sovereignty’s lifecycle matrix shows most of the ~70 works cluster on write and retrieve integrity, leaving store, availability, and governance primitives like write gate validation and post deletion verification almost entirely unexplored.

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

AutoSkill: Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning via Skill Self-Evolution

Yutao Yang, Junsong Li et al.

arXiv 2026 · 2026

AutoSkill composes prompt-driven modules Query Rewriting, Hybrid Skill Retrieval, Skill Extraction, Skill Management Decision, and Versioned Skill Merging to externalize user preferences and workflows into SKILL.md artifacts stored in a SkillBank. AutoSkill builds a multilingual SkillBank with 1,858 skills across four WildChat-1M subsets, showing that explicit skill artifacts can be continuously refined (e.g., professional_text_rewrite at version 0.1.34) without any parameter updates.

Memory Architecture

Auxiliary-predicted Compress Memory Model(ApCM Model): A Neural Memory Storage Model Based on Invertible Compression and Learnable Prediction

Weinuo Ou

· 2026

Auxiliary-predicted Compress Memory Model (ApCM Model) combines an Invertible Dimensionality Reduction and Predictor (IDRP) module with a Memory Read-Write Controller, including a global Memory Bank, cosine-similarity read, and access-frequency write policy. ApCM Model achieves lower MSE (0.987171 vs 1.001440) than a Key-Value Memory Network while compressing memory from 1024 to 128 dimensions on random data.

Agent Memory

Belief Memory: Agent Memory Under Partial Observability

Junfeng Liao, Qizhou Wang et al.

arXiv 2026 · 2026

BeliefMem maintains an external belief-based memory bank with Add, Merge, and Belief-aware Retrieval over attribute-level hypotheses. On LoCoMo, BeliefMem reaches 42.38 F1 with GPT-4o-mini, beating Mem0’s 40.99 F1, and on ALFWorld it attains 59.88% success rate vs ReadAgent’s 54.03% (+5.85).

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Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

Zexue He, Yu Wang et al.

· 2026

MEMORYARENA orchestrates Memory-Agent-Environment Loops, Multi-Session Working Flow, Bundled Web Shopping, Group Travel Planning, and Progressive Web Search to stress-test how agents store and reuse information across sessions. MEMORYARENA’s main result is that agents with near-saturated scores on long-context benchmarks like LoCoMo still obtain Task Success Rates as low as 0.00–0.12 across its four environments.

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BenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Preference Selectivity of Persistent-Memory LLMs

Sangyeon Yoon, Sunkyoung Kim et al.

· 2026

BenchPreS combines Contexts, User Profiles, Preference Attributes, Gold Labeling, and an LLM-as-Judge framework to test context-aware preference selectivity in persistent-memory LLMs. BenchPreS shows GPT-5.2 reaches 87.33% Appropriate Application Rate on BenchPreS while still having a 40.95% Misapplication Rate compared to Gemini 3 Pro’s 86.48% Misapplication Rate.

Agent Memory

Beyond Memory Majority: Latent-Source Reasoning for Multi-Agent Memory Arbitration

Chenchen Lin, Wenhao Yuan et al.

arXiv 2026 · 2026

CAMA combines Neuro-Symbolic Evidence Assignment, Effective Independent Evidence Estimation, Factor-Level Conflict Arbitration, and Active Independent-Evidence Recovery to decouple correlated memories into latent evidence slots and recover missing sources. On LongMemEval with DeepSeek V4 Flash, CAMA reaches 87.9 EM compared to MADAM RAG’s 86.8 EM while also cutting Replication Sensitivity from 15.3 to 7.8.

Memory Architecture

Beyond the Context Window: A Cost-Performance Analysis of Fact-Based Memory vs. Long-Context LLMs for Persistent Agents

Natchanon Pollertlam, Witchayut Kornsuwannawit

· 2026

Beyond the Context Window compares Conversation Segmentation, Fact Extraction, Embedding and Storage, and Retrieval Mechanism in a Mem0-based memory system against long-context GPT-5-mini. On LongMemEval, Beyond the Context Window finds LC GPT-5-mini reaches 82.40% accuracy, 33.4 percentage points above the memory system baseline.

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.

RAG

Can Agent Memory Systems Track Evolving State?

Xinyi Fan, Miri Liu et al.

arXiv 2026 · 2026

StateMem represents conversations as structured StateStore entries built by a TurnEncoder, updated via deterministic Rechecker passes, and queried through a guided test-time recomputation prompt. On StateMemBench, StateMem reaches 0.363 gold rate on DeepSeek-V4-Flash, a +0.158 gain over the best retrieval baseline (Dense at 0.205) and +0.164 over long-context (0.149).

Agent Memory

CAST: Character-and-Scene Episodic Memory for Agents

Kexin Ma, Bojun Li et al.

· 2026

CAST builds views, scenes, character profiles, a semantic index, and an episodic index to organize dialogue into person-conditioned event structures. CAST reaches 62.02 F1 and 81.21 J on LOCOMO open questions, beating Zep by +13.24 F1 and +8.32 J and vanilla RAG by +25.15 F1 and +24.61 J.

Agent Memory

ChronoMem: Version Control and Semantic Rollback for Large Language Model Agent Memory

Yongye Su, Wujiang Xu et al.

arXiv 2026 · 2026

ChronoMem wraps ADK’s LocalMemoryService, SQLite memory store, Version Index, and Reranker module into a semantic version-control layer that snapshots agent memory on every write and rolls back via natural-language queries. ChronoMem reaches 55.1% rollback-consistent QA accuracy on MemoryAgentBench with Qwen2.5-7B, compared to 35.5% for the RAG-only baseline.

Long-Term Memory

Chronos: Temporal-Aware Conversational Agents with Structured Event Retrieval for Long-Term Memory

Sahil Sen, Elias Lumer et al.

· 2026

Chronos decomposes dialogue into structured events via the Event Extraction pipeline, stores them in dual event calendar and turn calendar indexes, and uses Dynamic Prompting, Initial Retrieval, and the Chronos Agent for temporal-aware tool-calling. On LongMemEvalS, Chronos Low reaches 92.60% overall accuracy and Chronos High 95.60%, beating EmergenceMem Internal by 7.67 percentage points and Mastra’s OM by 3.02 points.

BenchmarkAgent Memory

ClawVM: Harness-Managed Virtual Memory for Stateful Tool-Using LLM Agents

Mofasshara Rafique, Laurent Bindschaedler

· 2026

ClawVM manages agent state as typed pages via the SessionPageTable, RepresentationSelector, FaultObserver, WritebackJournal, and ClawVMEngine inside the agent harness. Across four OpenClaw-derived workloads and six token budgets, ClawVM cuts explicit faults from 67.8 (retrieval baseline) and 1.5 (Compaction-Hybrid) to 0.0 while adding median <50 μs policy-engine overhead per turn.

Benchmark

Codebase-Memory: Tree-Sitter-Based Knowledge Graphs for LLM Code Exploration via MCP

Martin Vogel, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach et al.

· 2026

Codebase-Memory parses repositories with a multi-pass pipeline using the Parse stage, Build stage, Serve stage, FunctionRegistry, Louvain communities, and MCP tool interface to build a persistent SQLite knowledge graph. On a 31-language benchmark, Codebase-Memory reaches 0.83 quality versus 0.92 for an Explorer Agent while using ten times fewer tokens and 2.1 times fewer tool calls.

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D-Mem: A Dual-Process Memory System for LLM Agents

Zhixing You, Jiachen Yuan, Jason Cai

· 2026

D-Mem combines Mem0∗, Quality Gating, and Full Deliberation into a dual-process memory system that incrementally stores vector memories and selectively scans raw history. On LoCoMo with GPT-4o-mini, D-Mem’s Quality Gating reaches 53.5 F1 versus the Mem0∗ baseline’s 51.2 F1, recovering 96.7% of the 55.3 F1 Full Deliberation performance with far fewer tokens.