Agent Memory Management

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It gives language and embodied agents persistent state beyond a context window, supporting personalization, multi-step work, and adaptation as facts change. Systems range from raw-log and vector-search stores to episodic-semantic hierarchies, temporal or provenance-aware graphs, and learned controllers that decide what to write, retrieve, consolidate, or discard. Evaluations use long-dialogue question answering benchmarks such as LoCoMo and LongMemEval, alongside tool-use, coding, and GUI tasks, measuring accuracy as well as token cost, latency, retention, and stale or unsafe recall. The central challenge is balancing useful evidence and traceability against bounded storage and computation: retention cannot help if retrieval fails, while compression, updates, and sharing can lose, stale, or expose information, and no design works best across all workloads.

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  1. MemMachine: A Ground-Truth-Preserving Memory System for Personalized AI Agents

    Apr 6, 2026Shu Wang, Edwin Yu, Oscar Love +4LLM Agent MemoryMemory Management for LLM Agents

    MemVerge, Inc.

  2. Memory Intelligence Agent

    Apr 6, 2026Jingyang Qiao, Weicheng Meng, Yu Cheng +6Memory-Augmented Language Model AgentsAutonomous Research Agents

  3. LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management

    Apr 4, 2026Yuqi Zhu, Jintian Zhang, Zhenjie Wan +7Memory Management for LLM AgentsEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  4. Novel Memory Forgetting Techniques for Autonomous AI Agents: Balancing Relevance and Efficiency

    Apr 2, 2026Payal Fofadiya, Sunil TiwariAgent Memory ManagementLong-Term Conversational Memory

    Fulloop

  5. Memory in the LLM Era: Modular Architectures and Strategies in a Unified Framework

    Apr 2, 2026Yanchen Wu, Tenghui Lin, Yingli Zhou +7LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    CUHK-Shenzhen · CUHK · HITSZ +2

  6. Hierarchical Memory Orchestration for Personalized Persistent Agents

    Apr 2, 2026Junming Liu, Yifei Sun, Weihua Cheng +4LLM Agent MemoryPersistent Memory for Language Models

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · The City University of New York, New York, USA

  7. ByteRover: Agent-Native Memory Through LLM-Curated Hierarchical Context

    Apr 2, 2026Andy Nguyen, Danh Doan, Hoang Pham +8LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    ByteRover

  8. DeltaMem: Towards Agentic Memory Management via Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 2, 2026Qi Zhang, Shen Huang, Chu Liu +4Agent Memory ManagementAgent Memory

    Alibaba Tongyi Lab, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  9. Oblivion: Self-Adaptive Agentic Memory Control through Decay-Driven Activation

    Mar 31, 2026Ashish Rana, Chia-Chien Hung, Qumeng Sun +2Long-Horizon LLM AgentsAgent Memory Management

    NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany · GWDG, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  10. MemFactory: Unified Inference & Training Framework for Agent Memory

    Mar 31, 2026Ziliang Guo, Ziheng Li, Bo Tang +2LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    MemTensor

  11. Multi-Layered Memory Architectures for LLM Agents: An Experimental Evaluation of Long-Term Context Retention

    Mar 31, 2026Sunil Tiwari, Payal FofadiyaPersistent Memory for Language ModelsLong-Term Conversational Memory

    Fulloop

  12. APEX-EM: Non-Parametric Online Learning for Autonomous Agents via Structured Procedural-Episodic Experience Replay

    Mar 31, 2026Pratyay Banerjee, Masud Moshtaghi, Ankit ChadhaReplay-Based Continual LearningPersistent Memory for Language Models

    Amazon, AGI / Sunnyvale, USA

  13. GAAMA: Graph Augmented Associative Memory for Agents

    Mar 29, 2026Swarna Kamal Paul, Shubhendu Sharma, Nitin SareenGraph-Based Agent MemoryLong-Term Conversational Memory

    Nagarro

  14. Cognis: Context-Aware Memory for Conversational AI Agents

    Mar 27, 2026Parshva Daftari, Khush Patel, Shreyas Kapale +2Agent Memory ManagementMemory-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Lyzr Research

  15. Mind Your HEARTBEAT! Claw Background Execution Inherently Enables Silent Memory Pollution

    Mar 24, 2026Yechao Zhang, Shiqian Zhao, Jie Zhang +5AI Agent SecurityAgent Memory Poisoning

    Nanyang Technological University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) · Johns Hopkins University

  16. Toward a Theory of Hierarchical Memory for Language Agents

    Mar 23, 2026Yashar Talebirad, Ali Parsaee, Csongor Y. Szepesvari +2LLM Agent MemoryHierarchical Memory

    University of Alberta · York University

  17. All-Mem: Agentic Lifelong Memory via Dynamic Topology Evolution

    Mar 20, 2026Can Lv, Heng Chang, Shengyu Tao +5Agent Memory ManagementLong-Term Conversational Memory

    Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing · Beihang University · Tsinghua University +1

  18. MemMA: Coordinating the Memory Cycle through Multi-Agent Reasoning and In-Situ Self-Evolution

    Mar 19, 2026Minhua Lin, Zhiwei Zhang, Hanqing Lu +5Agent Memory ManagementMemory-Augmented Language Model Agents

    The Pennsylvania State University · Amazon · Microsoft

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

    Mar 19, 2026Zhixing You, Jiachen Yuan, Jason CaiAgent Memory ManagementMemory-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Einstein Institute of Mathematics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel · Independent Researcher · AWS AI

  20. AndroTMem: From Interaction Trajectories to Anchored Memory in Long-Horizon GUI Agents

    Mar 19, 2026Yibo Shi, Jungang Li, Linghao Zhang +25Agent MemoryMemory-Augmented Agents

    XJTU · HKUST(GZ) · HKUST +8

  21. MemArchitect: A Policy Driven Memory Governance Layer

    Mar 18, 2026Lingavasan Suresh Kumar, Yang Ba, Rong PanAgent Memory GovernanceAgent Memory Management

    Arizona State University

  22. Governed Memory: A Production Architecture for Multi-Agent Workflows

    Mar 18, 2026Hamed TaheriAgent Memory GovernanceAgent Memory Management

  23. Graph-Native Cognitive Memory for AI Agents: Formal Belief Revision Semantics for Versioned Memory Architectures

    Mar 18, 2026Young Bin ParkGraph-Based Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

  24. CLAG: Adaptive Memory Organization via Agent-Driven Clustering for Small Language Model Agents

    Mar 16, 2026Taeyun Roh, Wonjune Jang, Junha Jung +1Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    Korea University · Myongji University · AIGEN Sciences

  25. D-MEM: Dopamine-Gated Agentic Memory via Reward Prediction Error Routing

    Mar 15, 2026Yuru Song, Qi XinAgent Memory ManagementMemory-Augmented Language Model Agents

    UC San Diego · Carnegie Mellon University

  26. SuperLocalMemory V3: Information-Geometric Foundations for Zero-LLM Enterprise Agent Memory

    Mar 15, 2026Varun Pratap BhardwajAgent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    Independent Researcher, Solution Architect India

  27. Memory as Asset: From Agent-centric to Human-centric Memory Management

    Mar 15, 2026Yanqi Pan, Qinghao Huang, Weihao YangAgent Memory ManagementPersistent Memory for Language Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Brachisto Ltd., Hong Kong

  28. Structured Distillation for Personalized Agent Memory: 11x Token Reduction with Retrieval Preservation

    Mar 13, 2026Sydney LewisLLM Agent MemoryContext Distillation

  29. Governing Evolving Memory in LLM Agents: Risks, Mechanisms, and the Stability and Safety Governed Memory (SSGM) Framework

    Mar 12, 2026Chingkwun Lam, Jiaxin Li, Lingfei Zhang +1LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    College of Intelligent Science and Engineering, Jinan University

  30. Hybrid Self-evolving Structured Memory for GUI Agents

    Mar 11, 2026Sibo Zhu, Wenyi Wu, Kun Zhou +2GUI AgentsAgent Memory Management

    University of California, San Diego