Remember by Asking: Retrieval-Induced Memory Evolution for LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.34438 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• RAG — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• D-Mem: A Dual-Process Memory System for LLM Agents
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents
• SAGE: A Novelty Gate for Efficient Memory Evolution in Agentic LLMs
• Retrieval-Driven Memory Reconsolidation for Long-Term LLM Agents

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