arXiv cs.AI
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When Retrieval Is Not Enough: Obsolete Facts in Agent Memory

arXiv:2610.36308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-agent benchmarks often collapse retrieval and answer generation into one score, making it hard to tell whether a failure comes from missing an update or from not using an update that was already retrieved. We examine this distinction on the single-hop FactConsolidation task of MemoryAgentBench. With Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on 6K-history BM25 accur

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  • BuilderIf you build memory agents, dedupe or version-filter retrieved evidence before generation, since stale statements can hurt more than unrelated context.
  • ResearcherThis paper separates retrieval failure from update-use failure on MemoryAgentBench FactConsolidation, showing stale-evidence harm grows with larger retrieval bu

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82
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55
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70
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97
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60