Reconstructing the Right Episode: Evaluating Interleaved Conversational Memory Beyond Long Context

arXiv:2608.25655 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/LordTARN1SHED/SCALE-QA

Terminology

• RAG — 72× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 39× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abstention — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Memory — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ontology — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cluster expansion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Semantic Drift — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• MemoryBench: A Benchmark for Memory and Continual Learning in LLM Systems
• MEMTRACK: Evaluating Long-Term Memory and State Tracking in Multi-Platform Dynamic Agent Environments
• Enhancing Chat Language Models by Scaling High-quality Instructional Conversations
• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
• Haystack Engineering: Context Engineering for Heterogeneous and Agentic Long-Context Evaluation
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

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