LLM agents fail to forget user information on demand, benchmark shows

Bemula, a benchmark with 50 dialogues and 1,742 test questions, found that no memory system passes more than 1.5% of forget requests.

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Bofan Xie · Chaokun Wang · Guanchen Ge · Songyao Wang · Fang Niu · Hang Zhang · +1 more

Tsinghua University · Sina Weibo

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The authors constructed 50 multi-session dialogue instances with 746 sessions, containing 135 natural-language forget requests of six types and 1,742 test questions.

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LLM agent memory systems fail to honor deletion requests: none pass more than 1.5% of forget requests end to end in Bemula.

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