Self-configured memory views improve retrieval across long conversations

AutoViewMem separates different kinds of conversational information before indexing, enabling standard similarity search to retrieve more focused evidence.

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Zijie Cao · Xijun Qu · Zhicheng Gu · Xiaoshu Chen · Duanyang Yuan · Yanning Hou · +4 more

National University of Defense Technology

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AutoViewMem improves conversational memory retrieval by discovering and using low-overlap semantic views to structure memories at write time.

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AutoViewMem is a framework that organizes long-term conversational memory into self-configuring, low-overlap semantic views before indexing. It discovers candidate views from interaction traces, selects a compact complementary set, and uses them to guide write-time structured extraction of provenance-grounded memories.

Experiments on the LoCoMo and PersonaMem benchmarks with Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-14B backbones show that AutoViewMem improves long-horizon question answering and personalization over existing memory systems like Mem0, MemGAS, MemoryBank, and A-mem. The method preserves a simple inference pipeline without explicit routing or iterative retrieval.

By moving semantic disentanglement from retrieval time to write time, AutoViewMem reduces semantic interference in mixed-content memories, allowing standard top-K similarity search to retrieve focused evidence. This representation-first design addresses a core limitation of current memory systems that often struggle with heterogeneous information embedded in single representations.

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