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Research paperLarge Language Models1 source · Oct 6, 2026

MINDSET: Energy-based Schema Evolution for Long Conversational Agent Memory

We introduce MINDSET, a memory controller that stores a conversation as immutable episodes and organizes them into versioned schemas through minimum-energy state transitions.

Key points

  • Long conversational agents have become essential in our daily lives.
  • A useful memory system should preserve both current and historical states, distinguish stale information from active knowledge, retrieve evidence appropriate to the query and avoid repeatedly invoking a large language model to rewrite prior interactions.
  • We evaluate MINDSET against 5 memory systems on a reproducible sample of 850 questions (700 LoCoMo + 150 MemoryAgentBench).
  • These results show that long-term memory can be better handled as constrained state management rather than continual summarization.

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  • [1]MINDSET: Energy-based Schema Evolution for Long Conversational Agent Memory
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 03:55 PM
    We introduce MINDSET, a memory controller that stores a conversation as immutable episodes and organizes them into versioned schemas through minimum-energy state transitions.
    Long conversational agents have become essential in our daily lives.

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