Beyond Memory Construction: Rethinking Memory Access for LLM-based Conversational Agents

arXiv:2609.33226 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/Donghua-Cai/Threader

Terminology

• Accuracy — 40× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• RAG — 30× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 27× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Memory — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Personalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Continual Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Retrieval — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Boundary Over-segmentation Ratio — 1× in this paper
• Catastrophic Forgetting — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Self-Evolving Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• State of AI: An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter
• Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory
• LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models
• EverMemOS: A Self-Organizing Memory Operating System for Structured Long-Horizon Reasoning
• Memory in the Age of AI Agents
• Unsupervised Dense Information Retrieval with Contrastive Learning
• Know Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale
• MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• Fast Model Editing at Scale
• ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents
• Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory
• Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey on Agentic RAG
• Scaling Long-Horizon LLM Agent via Context-Folding
• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
• MEMORYLLM: Towards Self-Updatable Large Language Models

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