From Retrieval to Reconstruction: Constructing Evolvable Cognitive Memory for Long-Term Dialogue

arXiv:2610.11314 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/Silent-Rain02/CogMem

Terminology

• RAG — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Drift — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 4× in this paper
• Theory of Mind — 4× in this paper
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 3× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstention — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Loop — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Retrieval — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Theory of Mind (ToM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Granularity Mismatch — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Inspired by the Complementary Learning Systems — 1× in this paper
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
• Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory
• LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
• From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models
• Memory OS of AI Agent
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
• General Agentic Memory Via Deep Research
• CogMem: A Cognitive Memory Architecture for Sustained Multi-Turn Reasoning in Large Language Models

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