# FIRME: Registry-Anchored Memory Graphs for Evolving, Heterogeneous Investor Knowledge

**Authors:** Yunbai Zhang, Yunyi Gao, Han-Tai Shiao  
**Lab:** Vanguard · **Published:** 29 Oct 2026  
**Links:** [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40482) · [PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.40482) · [This page](https://omen-bit.github.io/ai-paper-daily/paper/2610.40482.html)

## Abstract

Financial AI workflows that reuse investor knowledge need persistent memory that integrates observations across sources and periods without losing identity or provenance. In a knowledge graph, recurring observations may use different surface forms, fragmenting relationship histories and preventing evidence from accumulating. We introduce Fusion and Identity Registry for Memory Evolution (FIRME), a registry-anchored memory graph that reconciles incoming observations to persistent canonical relationships and retains their source, time, and context. Within periods, rule-based fusion links investor-call discussions to portfolio cash-flow signals, directly or through a fixed product-topic ontology. Across periods, canonical identities and persistent aliases direct recurring observations to the same relationship history; deterministic updates summarize reinforcement, inactivity, and reactivation. We evaluate FIRME on proprietary investor-call and cash-flow records and on S&P 500 earnings-call transcripts. Compared with a historical registry that retains canonical identities and semantic fallback but omits alias memory, FIRME increases final-period Correct Match Rate by 7.8-12.1 percentage points across four dataset-backend settings under a fixed-judge and fallback-review protocol. A blinded human audit of 200 incoming observations per setting finds Correct Match Rate gains of 9.0-16.5 points and reattachment-recall gains of 22.5-29.0 points, with higher observed merge precision in all four samples. A separate audit finds valid evidence paths for 293 of 300 outputs from full within-period fusion in the investor-call setting. Extraction-faithfulness and round-trip diagnostics assess source grounding and preservation of extractor-derived graph content.

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