Whose Memory Is It? Scope-Aware Commit Rules for Long-Term LLM Memory

Key points

• If memory retains only the resulting sentences, those once-useful possibilities can later return as facts.1
• We identify this missing context as discourse ownership: the world, branch, or speaker that licenses a proposition.1
• We introduce CASK (Causally Anchored Scoping Keys), a commit rule that preserves this signal so that shared-world facts enter durable memory while provisional content remains available only within its original scope.1
• Controlled long-conversation conflicts and tool-agent traces show that this design improves memory admission and prevents provisional content from contaminating later answers while complementing runtime provenance.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Whose Memory Is It? Scope-Aware Commit Rules for Long-Term LLM Memory
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 07:05 PM

  Persistent memory allows an LLM agent to carry experience across conversations, but it also turns a local reasoning mistake into a durable one.

  If memory retains only the resulting sentences, those once-useful possibilities can later return as facts.

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