Agent Zero Memory: Provenance-Aware Long-Term Memory for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.29606 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Code: https://github.com/memodb-io/memobase

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 37× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 22× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Knowledge Graph — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Embeddings — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hierarchical Documentary Memory — 5× in this paper
• RAG — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent Memory — 4× in this paper
• Agentic Search — 4× in this paper
• Abstention — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Loop — 1× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory
• Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory
• Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory
• HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models
• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
• Hindsight is 20/20: Building Agent Memory that Retains, Recalls, and Reflects
• ByteRover: Agent-Native Memory Through LLM-Curated Hierarchical Context

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