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MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents

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Modern language agents must operate over long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where they retrieve external information, adapt to observations, and answer interdependent queries. Yet, most LLM systems rely on full-context prompting, appending all past turns regardless of their relevance. This leads to unbounded memory growth, increased computational costs, and degraded reasoning performance on out-of-distribution input lengths. We introduce MEM1, an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework that enables agents to operate with constant memory across long multi-turn tasks. At each turn, MEM1 updates a compact shared internal state that jointly supports memory consolidation and reasoning. This state integrates prior memory with new observations from the environment while strategically discarding irrelevant or redundant information. To support training in more realistic and compositional settings, we propose a simple yet effective and scalable approach to constructing multi-turn environments by composing existing datasets into arbitrarily complex task sequences. Experiments across three domains, including internal retrieval QA, open-domain web QA, and multi-turn web shopping, show that MEM1-7B improves performance by 3.5x while reducing memory usage by 3.7x compared to Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct on a 16-objective multi-hop QA task, and generalizes beyond the training horizon. Our results demonstrate the promise of reasoning-driven memory consolidation as a scalable alternative to existing solutions for training long-horizon interactive agents, where both efficiency and performance are optimized.

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MedMemoryBench: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Personalized Healthcare

cs.AI · 2026-05-12 · conditional · novelty 8.0

MedMemoryBench supplies a 2,000-session synthetic medical trajectory dataset and an evaluate-while-constructing streaming protocol to expose memory saturation and reasoning failures in current agent architectures for personalized healthcare.

MemTrain: Self-Supervised Context Memory Training

cs.CL · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

MemTrain introduces two coupled self-supervised proxy tasks on Wikipedia corpora to train general context-memory capabilities in LLMs, reporting gains of up to 17.67 points on long-text and search-based QA benchmarks over direct post-training.

Belief Memory: Agent Memory Under Partial Observability

cs.AI · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

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cs.AI · 2026-04-21 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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LMEB: Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark

cs.CL · 2026-03-13 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

LMEB benchmark shows that embedding models' performance on traditional retrieval does not transfer to long-horizon memory tasks, larger models do not always perform better, and LMEB measures capabilities orthogonal to MTEB.

ECHO: Prune to act, trace to learn with selective turn memory in agentic RL

cs.LG · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ECHO is a selective turn-memory framework for agentic RL that compresses turns into indexed records, selects them for bounded contexts, and uses source indices to assign outcome credit to supporting evidence, reaching 43.4% accuracy on BrowseComp-Plus versus 28.9% for GRPO and 36.1% for SUPO.

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cs.CL · 2026-06-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A four-module framework is used to benchmark 12 agent memory systems, showing no architecture dominates and that workload alignment plus localized maintenance drive performance and cost.

Organize then Retrieve: Hierarchical Memory Navigation for Efficient Agents

cs.AI · 2026-06-10 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

HORMA builds a hierarchical memory structure from agent experiences and trains a lightweight RL navigator to retrieve minimal sufficient context, yielding better task performance with at most 22.17% of baseline token usage on ALFWorld, LoCoMo, and LongMemEval.

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cs.AI · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

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SAM: State-Adaptive Memory for Long-Horizon Reasoning Agent

cs.AI · 2026-05-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

SAM is a standalone memory framework for long-horizon LLM agents that creates state-adaptive cues from interactions, preserves raw trajectories for intent-driven recall, and optimizes the module via expert supervision and RL, outperforming baselines on BrowseComp and related benchmarks.

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