The papers

Most central to this idea first, not most recent.

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Agents Can Drop Old Reasoning After Externalizing Task State

  TierFlow Team, Renmin University of China · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  Self-configured memory views improve retrieval across long conversations

  National University of Defense Technology · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.LG

  Adaptive memory graphs improve collaboration in multi-agent language-model systems

  Sept 2026

• Industrycs.CL

  DolphinBench measures agent memory through tasks, cost, and latency

  Mem0 · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.SE

  Program repair improves when memories match repository needs and repair stages

  Zhejiang University, Tencent · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Structured agent memories withstand model upgrades better than compressed notes

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Agents can retain old facts without using them indiscriminately

  Beihang University, East China Normal University · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Smarter merging and packing improve LLM memory under tight budgets

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.RO

  Agent-side memory steers stateless robots through long manipulation tasks

  KU Leuven, Meituan Inc. · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Coding Agents Need Semantic Measures of Working Memory Performance

  Argonne National Laboratory, Columbia University · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Game-theoretic filtering helps agents suppress harmful memories during long tasks

  Sept 2026

• Independentcs.IR

  Vector memory helps recommendation agents use full interaction histories

  Aug 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CV

  Streaming video memory works better when internalized as evolving latent tokens

  Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Ant Group · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Query-aware evidence forests improve long-term memory for multimodal agents

  Aug 2026

• Top Universityeess.AS

  Dual-brain memory keeps real-time speech agents accurate and emotionally aware

  Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore · Aug 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  First systematic characterization of agent memory systems across long-horizon tasks

  Stanford University, Independent Researcher · June 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  Research agent improves itself through seven successive code rewrites

  Weco AI · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Compressing old tool outputs cuts coding-agent context with modest accuracy loss

  Peking University · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AIcode

  Stateful retrieval finds relevant troubleshooting cases throughout support workflows

  Microsoft · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Trajectory shortcut trees improve agents without outcome labels or annotations

  Fudan University, Meituan Longcat Team · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.CL

  Specialized AI agents improve clinical trial design risk assessment

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Keiji AI Inc · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.CR

  Plan-first controls block attacks on persistent language-model agents

  University of South Florida · Aug 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Replayable news timelines test how LLM agents update forecasts

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Amazon · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Checkpoint testing reveals hidden weaknesses in self-evolving agent memories

  Zhejiang University, Alibaba Group · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Closed-loop development improves mobile agents across planning and tool use

  Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AIcode

  C3M preserves multimodal evidence across sessions within fixed memory budgets

  Huzhou Normal University, Alibaba Group · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  LLM teammates retain performance after swaps but coordinate less efficiently

  China Agricultural University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.RO

  Saliency-driven workspace tokens give robots lightweight task memory

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AIcode

  Memory lets traffic-simulation agents build reusable skills without retraining

  Jilin University · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.CL

  LLM agents do not reliably improve from their own experience

  Sept 2026

• Industrycs.CL

  Self-evolving loop synthesizes high-quality multimodal training data

  vivo AI Lab · Aug 2026

• Top Universitycs.CR

  Persistent memory in AI agents can be stealthily poisoned via a single email

  Nanyang Technological University, CFAR, A*STAR · July 2026

• Top Universitycs.MM

  Multi-agent revisions improve reusable visual templates across different user inputs

  Peking University, Kuaishou Technology · Sept 2026

• Research Labcs.AI

  Hierarchical memory trees improve long-context reasoning without model training

  Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.LGcode

  Reusing agent trajectories cuts token use on repeated tool tasks

  China Telecom Cloud · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Pruning context to recent tool calls improves agent reliability and efficiency

  June 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  LLM agents collude to bypass verification in long-horizon tasks

  Stanford University, Georgia Tech · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  Kernel-managed memory personalizes multiple AI agents with shorter prompts

  Rutgers University · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CL

  Separating planning from synthesis improves long-horizon search agents

  Zhejiang University, Tencent · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.IR

  Coding agents retrieve better by targeting missing evidence sets

  University of California San Diego · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  Memory guidelines help language-model agents succeed consistently across repeated runs

  IBM Software Innovation Lab, IBM Research · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.CVcode

  MLLMs fail to sustain goal-directed navigation in real-scale 3D city

  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National University of Singapore · Aug 2026

• Industrycs.DCcode

  Dispatch-aware agents safely optimize compiler-generated GPU kernels within full models

  Red Hat · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Personalizing agents through cross-session interaction data boosts task success

  Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AI

  Targeted reflection improves multi-agent systems by locating decisive errors

  Renmin University of China, Ant Group · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.CV

  Coding agents combine generated imagery with editable web-based visual layouts

  Sept 2026