Agent Memory

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Agent memory studies how AI systems preserve and use information beyond the current context, from personal facts and changing state to task procedures and spatial experience. Common approaches include retrieval over raw histories, summaries and vector or knowledge graphs, alongside methods that organize episodic, semantic, and procedural memory or learn when to update, compress, and forget. Evaluation spans conversational benchmarks such as LoCoMo and LongMemEval as well as multi-session web, coding, and embodied tasks, with growing attention to interference, stale information, provenance, privacy, and whether retrieved evidence actually improves later actions. A central tension is balancing reliable, generalizable memory with limited context, latency, and maintenance cost; strong recall on question-answering tests does not yet guarantee robust use in evolving environments.

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  1. BehaviorMem: Building and Evaluating User Memory from Real-World E-Commerce Behavior Streams

    Oct 26, 2026Sizhe Wang, Xinghao Fang, Rui Qiu +4Agent MemoryMemory Agent Benchmarks

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Taobao & Tmall Group, Alibaba, Beijing, China

  2. Subgoal-aware Memory Graph for GUI Agent

    Oct 22, 2026Dezhao Luo, Daniel Beechey, Derek Yuen +1Agent MemoryGUI Agents

    Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  3. The Value of Memory in Language Agents

    Oct 22, 2026Zehao Lin, Erenkai Zhu, Helan Hu +3Agent MemoryMemory Management for LLM Agents

    MemTensor · Shanghai Jiaotong University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  4. ProactEgoMem: Benchmarking Proactive Memory in Streaming Egocentric Video

    Oct 21, 2026Ruotong Liao, Meikel Kokowski, Xiaoxiao Sun +6Agent MemoryMemory Agent Benchmarks

    LMU Munich · Technical University of Munich · Stanford University +1

  5. Remembering Through Change: Provenance-Preserving Hypergraph Memory for Multimodal Agents

    Oct 21, 2026Jielong Tang, Ling-An Zeng, Xujie Yuan +7Agent MemoryMultimodal Memory

    Sun Yat-sen University · Huawei Technologies, Noah Arks’ Lab · Shandong Normal University +1

  6. ProMemAgent: Long-Horizon Proactive Assistance with Context-Aware Prospective Memory from Sensory Perceptions

    Oct 19, 2026Lilin Xu, Linyang He, Kaiyuan Hou +4Proactive AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Columbia University

  7. REM: What to Store, When to Recall, What to Forget in Experience Memory for Coding Agents

    Oct 19, 2026Xinyi Lisa Chen, Pedro Herrero-Vidal, Xiaohan Chen +6Memory Management for LLM AgentsAgent Memory

    Yale University · Amazon

  8. Procedural Memory for Language Agents: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Explicit Goal Structure

    Oct 19, 2026Jonathan Leung, Zhiqi Shen, Deheng YeProcedural Memory for LLM AgentsAgent Memory

    Tencent-NTU Joint Research Laboratory (CENTURY), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  9. MemDerive: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Agent Memory over Evolving Data

    Oct 18, 2026Sen Gao, Yongan Li, Han Chen +5Agent MemoryMemory Agent Benchmarks

    National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Zero Gravity Labs, Singapore, Singapore

  10. Pre-Query Retention with Bounded Bit and Word Retrieval

    Oct 18, 2026Pranav Singh, Prashant SinghAgent MemoryQuery Complexity

    Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Department of Mathematics, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

  11. Spatial Memory by Agents, for Agents

    Oct 15, 2026Qianwei Wang, Ce Zhang, Zhanpeng Luo +3Robotic Spatial MemoryAgent Memory

    Qianwei Wang is with Princeton University · Ce Zhang is with Carnegie Mellon University · Zhanpeng Luo is with Johns Hopkins University +2

  12. Multimodal Filesystem Memory For Long-Horizon Embodied Agents

    Oct 15, 2026Chloe Su, Jiahan Li, Zhenting Qi +5Agent MemoryLong-Term Memory for Embodied Agents

  13. MemoProAgent: Toward Memory-Driven Proactive Assistance

    Oct 15, 2026Shenglai Zeng, Xiao Yang, Tiffany Ma +15Proactive AgentsProactive Assistance

    Michigan State University · Meta Reality Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs +3

  14. Beyond Downstream QA: Rethinking How We Evaluate Agent Memory

    Oct 15, 2026Sebastian-Antonio Toma, Jean de Kernier, Mike Ply +1Agent MemoryLLM Agent Memory

    Amazon Web Services · Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  15. Rethinking the Role of Tool Graph Memory in Multi-Turn Tool Use

    Oct 15, 2026Uiji Hwang, Richeng Xuan, Taeuk KimLLM Tool UseAgent Memory

    Hanyang University · Hunyuan, Tencent

  16. An Agentic Framework for Proactive Robots with Procedural Assistance Memory

    Oct 15, 2026Dohyun Lee, Minho Park, Jeonghoon Park +5Proactive AssistanceAssistive Robotics

    KAIST AI

  17. Memorizing Who, Knowing How: Benchmarking Personal and Procedural Memory for Persistent Assistants

    Oct 14, 2026Maosheng Qin, Qi Zhang, Mingxuan Xia +5Agent MemoryPersistent Memory for Language Models

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  18. When Agent Memory Needs to Compute: Evidence Access and Executable Aggregation

    Oct 14, 2026Zerui Yang, Quan Xue, Chaorui Zhang +8Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    Huawei Technologies Ltd.

  19. EvoWeave: Composing Reusable Agent Experience through Operation Level Graphs

    Oct 14, 2026Guanhua Zhu, Bo Shen, Lei Zhang +4Agent MemoryLLM Agent Memory

    Department of Informatics, New Jersey Institute of Technology · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology +1

  20. Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents

    Oct 13, 2026Yuchen Lu, Julian McAuley, Lei ZhangLLM Context ManagementLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    University of California San Diego

  21. SEPM: Self-Evolving Procedural Memory Grounded in Task Graphs for Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Oct 10, 2026Yi Liu, Junwei Zhao, Li Sun +2Agent MemoryMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · China Telecom

  22. What Should Embodied Agents Remember? Benchmarking and Evaluating Memory Modality for Embodied Agents

    Oct 8, 2026Junxiang Wang, Yuchen Liu, Yi Wu +6Long-Term Memory for Embodied AgentsAgent Memory

    Dexmate · Carnegie Mellon University · Purdue University

  23. Tracing the Thoughts of a Coding Agent Playing ARC-AGI-3: Lessons for Continual Learning

    Oct 8, 2026Chen Wu, Josh Passenger, Yin SongContinual Learning for LLM AgentsAI Coding Agents

    AWS

  24. Stale, Misattributed, or Late: Where Personal Memory Fails Before Generation

    Oct 7, 2026Haonan Deng, Park SinchaisriAgent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    University of California, Berkeley · Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

  25. HGP:An on-device personalized agent memory via hybrid graph storage

    Oct 7, 2026Ran Zhou, Xueming Han, Jiaheng Liu +4Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University · Jiutian Research

  26. Understanding and Mitigating Inference-Time Overreliance Using Agentic Memory

    Oct 5, 2026Luoxi Tang, Yuqiao Meng, Nilesh Auradkar +3Agent MemoryLLM Memory

    Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA · University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA · Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  27. Capability-Driven Self-Evolution of Agent Memory

    Oct 5, 2026Yaoqi Chen, Yuru Feng, Qianxi Zhang +8Agent MemorySelf-Evolving Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · Microsoft · University of California, San Diego

  28. MemTrace: State-Consistent Memory for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

    Oct 4, 2026Hongming Xu, Le Zhou, ZhongHe Jin +5Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · MemTensor (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. · Theseus Lab

  29. DyadMem: A Long-Term Memory Benchmark of How Agents Work with Users

    Oct 2, 2026Yifei Tao, Xinyu Zhong, Henry Hengyuan Zhao +5Agent MemoryMemory Agent Benchmarks

    Nanyang Technological University · Stepfun · National University of Singapore +1

  30. Beyond the Shadows of Plato's Cave: Evaluating False Memory in Autonomous Agents via Counterfactual Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Quan M. Tran, Zhuo Huang, Zhen Fang +3Agent Memory

    Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney · Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney +2