/ Paper arXiv 2611.03743
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EvoMemState adds relational and reasoning states to LLM memory, improving retrieval and response accuracy.
The paper adds extra memory layers so AI assistants remember how facts relate and decide which ones to use, making them more accurate.EvoMemState adds relational and reasoning states to LLM memory, improving retrieval and response accuracy.EvoMemState augments LLM agents with ontology‑guided Relational StatesRelational StatesMemory structures that encode validity, scope, and evolving relationships among stored facts. and RL‑based request‑specific Reasoning StateReasoning StateA request‑specific representation that determines how relevant facts should be applied., improving long‑term dialogue retrieval and grounding.Curator's notesWritten by AI from the paperReport a mistake
What's new
Introduces a state-centric memory framework with relational and request-specific reasoning states, unlike prior fact-only approaches.
Key result
Shows consistent improvements in retrieval completeness and memory‑grounded response accuracy on long‑term dialogue benchmarks.
Why it matters
Better memory handling lets personal agents give more accurate, context‑aware assistance over time.
Abstract
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Long-term memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to provide continuous personalized assistance by retaining user information across interactions. Existing systems support this process through fact extraction, organization, updating, and retrieval, but largely maintain memories as independent facts. This fact-centric paradigm may overlook how new facts update, constrain, or conflict with earlier ones, while leaving their applicability, role, and priority for the current request implicit. In this paper, we introduce EvoMemState, a state-centric framework that augments persistent facts with two complementary states: Relational StatesRelational StatesMemory structures that encode validity, scope, and evolving relationships among stored facts. that capture how facts remain valid and relate to one another as memory evolves, and a Reasoning StateReasoning StateA request‑specific representation that determines how relevant facts should be applied. that determines how these facts should be applied to the current request. Specifically, EvoMemState consists of three key components: (i) Ontology-Guided Memory State Induction extracts Persistent Facts and constructs Relational StatesRelational StatesMemory structures that encode validity, scope, and evolving relationships among stored facts. that maintain their validity, scope, and evolving relations. (ii) RL-Based State EvolutionRL-Based State EvolutionA reinforcement‑learning process that learns a policy to generate the Reasoning State from past memory use. internalizes memory-use experience into a policy through reinforcement learning to generate a request-specific Reasoning StateReasoning StateA request‑specific representation that determines how relevant facts should be applied.. (iii) State-Aware Reasoning then combines the relevant facts with their Relational StatesRelational StatesMemory structures that encode validity, scope, and evolving relationships among stored facts. and the generated Reasoning StateReasoning StateA request‑specific representation that determines how relevant facts should be applied. to guide the personal agent. Extensive experiments on long-term dialogue and memory-use benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over existing memory systems in retrieval completeness and memory-grounded response accuracy. Our code and implementation details are available at https://github.com/XMUDeepLIT/EvoMemState.git.
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What two new types of memory states does EvoMemState introduce beyond persistent facts?
EvoMemState adds Relational States, which capture validity and relations among facts, and a Reasoning State, which guides fact application for each request.
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