What Deserves Memory: Adaptive Memory Distillation for LLM Agents

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Auteurs principaux: Ma, Wenquan, Nan, Jiayan, Wu, Wenlong, Chen, Yize
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author Ma, Wenquan
Nan, Jiayan
Wu, Wenlong
Chen, Yize
author_facet Ma, Wenquan
Nan, Jiayan
Wu, Wenlong
Chen, Yize
contents Memory systems for LLM agents struggle to determine what information deserves retention. Existing approaches rely on predefined heuristics such as importance scores, emotional tags, or factual templates, encoding designer intuition rather than learning from the data itself. Inspired by cognitive ideas, we propose NEMORI, an adaptive memory distillation framework that casts the assessment of experience's future utility as a matter of predictability. Specifically, NEMORI comprises two cascading modules: Episodic Memory Integration transforms raw interactions into coherent narratives, and Semantic Knowledge Distillation extracts insights via prediction error. Centering on distillation, the framework remains agnostic to downstream management. Extensive experiments confirm that NEMORI achieves strong performance, efficiency, and storage reduction. Our work suggests that observing the intrinsic properties of interaction sequences offers a viable, data-driven alternative to heuristic-based memory design. Code: https://github.com/nemori-ai/nemori.
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spellingShingle What Deserves Memory: Adaptive Memory Distillation for LLM Agents
Ma, Wenquan
Nan, Jiayan
Wu, Wenlong
Chen, Yize
Artificial Intelligence
Memory systems for LLM agents struggle to determine what information deserves retention. Existing approaches rely on predefined heuristics such as importance scores, emotional tags, or factual templates, encoding designer intuition rather than learning from the data itself. Inspired by cognitive ideas, we propose NEMORI, an adaptive memory distillation framework that casts the assessment of experience's future utility as a matter of predictability. Specifically, NEMORI comprises two cascading modules: Episodic Memory Integration transforms raw interactions into coherent narratives, and Semantic Knowledge Distillation extracts insights via prediction error. Centering on distillation, the framework remains agnostic to downstream management. Extensive experiments confirm that NEMORI achieves strong performance, efficiency, and storage reduction. Our work suggests that observing the intrinsic properties of interaction sequences offers a viable, data-driven alternative to heuristic-based memory design. Code: https://github.com/nemori-ai/nemori.
title What Deserves Memory: Adaptive Memory Distillation for LLM Agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03341