Madeleine: Learning Involuntary Recall for Conversational Memory from Simulated Lives

arXiv:2610.01118 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Memory — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hypergraph — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Language Modeling — 3× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Associative Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• KV cache — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Thinking mode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• When Users Don't Ask: Benchmarking Context-Driven Memory Retrieval in Conversational Agents
• JustMem: Just-Enough Memory Access for Long-Term Conversations
• Thinking Ahead: Prospection-Guided Retrieval of Memory with Language Models
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• EdgeMem: LLM-Free Agent Memory Construction and Retrieval via Evidence-Preserving Multi-Anchor Hypergraph
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
• Towards Root Memories: Benchmarking and Enhancing Implicit Logical Memory Retrieval for Personalized LLMs
• T-Mem: Memory That Anticipates, Not Archives
• RippleMem: From Isolated Retrieval to Associative Recollection for Long-Term Agent Memory
• Gemini Embedding: Generalizable Embeddings from Gemini
• Gecko: Versatile Text Embeddings Distilled from Large Language Models
• MemReranker: Reasoning-Aware Reranking for Agent Memory Retrieval
• Keep It InMind: Benchmarking the Implicit-Association Blind Spot in Agent Memory
• MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System
• Document Expansion by Query Prediction
• GPT-4o System Card
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory
• Exploratory and Assimilating Reflection: Reflective Recall Cycle for Long-term Memory

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