AgentMemBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Management Strategies in Conversational AI Agents
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Title:AgentMemBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Management Strategies in Conversational AI Agents
Authors:Ahmed Cherif
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Abstract:Long-term memory remains a critical bottleneck for conversational AI agents, whose finite context windows cannot support coherent recall across thousands of turns. We present AgentMemBench, a unified, reproducible benchmark evaluating five memory management strategies under identical conditions: in-context windowing (ICW), external key-value store (EKV), graph-based episodic memory (GEM), compression-based summarisation (CBS), and web-augmented memory (WAM). All are assessed across three public datasets covering long-term multi-session dialogue (LoCoMo), task-oriented document grounding (MultiDoc2Dial), and persona-grounded multi-session chat (MSC), using Recall@k, MRR, nDCG@k, Answer F1, an LLM-judge Faithfulness score, Memory Footprint, and Latency over 491 annotated question turns. Generation and judging both use Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (4-bit), with greedy decoding for determinism. Our results show that (1) EKV dominates on every quality axis (macro Recall@5 0.792, MRR 0.677, F1 0.156, Faithfulness 0.354); (2) long-range recall is decisive: on LoCoMo, where the gold turn lies many sessions back, ICW, WAM, GEM, and CBS retrieve almost nothing (Recall@5 <= 0.005) while EKV alone reaches 0.573, showing that recency windows, summaries, and entity graphs collapse at long horizons and only dense retrieval scales; (3) CBS is the runner-up on retrieval (0.556); (4) WAM equals ICW on in-corpus recall by construction, since external results carry no in-corpus provenance; and (5) EKV's recall advantage carries a footprint cost (~5,100 vs ~300 tokens for ICW/WAM), an explicit accuracy-efficiency trade-off. We additionally evaluate two published memory systems (MemGPT/Letta, HippoRAG) against the same harness, and release all code, environment, and result artefacts for full reproducibility.
| Comments: | 22 pages, 3 figures submitted on Neural Computing and Applications |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| ACM classes: | I.2.7; H.3.3 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.00009 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2608.00009v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.00009
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