Speaker-indexed memory cuts token costs while preserving answer accuracy

Stashbird links conversational evidence to structured memory, enabling efficient retrieval plus provenance-aware updates and deletion.

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Chidera Biringa · Lucas Yannul · Xiaowen Wang · Marco Ayala · Nicholas Yi · Alex Moyse · +2 more

Microsoft

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The authors built a conversational memory system that stores episodes alongside derived relations, preferences, summaries, and graph state, with explicit links back to the source evidence.

The authors designed Stashbird to consolidate conversations into episode records, semantic relations, preference traces, entity communities, and persistent graph state.

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Stashbird reduces memory token usage by up to 76x while achieving competitive question answering accuracy across long-term conversation benchmarks.

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