arXiv:2602.06052cs.CLcs.AI2026-02中稿 · Transactions on Ma…综述被引 36

探索智能体记忆机制,助力长期自主演化。

A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents

  • 从存储到自进化,构建长短时记忆协同框架
  • 2025年超百篇论文聚焦记忆,支持持续学习与决策
  • 适合研究长期智能体、多智能体系统与自我优化的学者

人工智能研究正从模型创新和基准分数转向问题定义与真实世界评估。在进入‘第二阶段’后,核心挑战在于长时程、动态且依赖用户的场景中实现真实可用性,如代理编程、深度研究和计算机使用等。基于大模型的智能体面临上下文爆炸问题,超出固定上下文窗口,需在长时间交互中持续积累、管理并选择性复用信息。因此,记忆成为填补这一实用鸿沟的关键方案。记忆不仅是被动存储,更逐渐成为智能体自我演化的基础:短期记忆控制感知与抽象,长期记忆将经验固化为可复用的知识与技能,形成自我改进的闭环。本文从三个维度统一梳理基础智能体记忆体系:记忆底座(内部参数状态与外部检索增强存储)、认知机制(感官、工作、情景、语义、程序记忆)以及记忆主体(用户中心个性化与代理中心经验)。进一步分析单/多智能体拓扑下的记忆运作,揭示记忆管理本身正成为可训练能力,涵盖强化学习驱动的上下文筛选、决策时刻的经验整合,以及可移植、可共享的智能体技能生态。最后,综述记忆效用的评估基准与指标,指出开放挑战与未来方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Research in artificial intelligence is shifting from model innovations and benchmark scores towards problem definition and rigorous real-world evaluation. As the field enters the "second half," the central challenge becomes real utility in long-horizon, dynamic, and user-dependent settings such as agentic coding, deep research, and computer use, where LLM-based agents face context explosion beyond fixed context windows and must continuously accumulate, manage, and selectively reuse information across extended interactions. Memory, with hundreds of papers released in 2025, therefore emerges as the critical solution to fill this utility gap. Beyond passive storage, memory is increasingly the substrate through which agents self-evolve: short-term memory gates which experiences are perceived and abstracted during execution, while long-term memory consolidates them into reusable knowledge and skills, forming the loop through which agents improve from their own experience. In this survey, we provide a unified view of foundation agent memory along three dimensions: memory substrate (internal parametric state and external retrieval-augmented stores), cognitive mechanism (sensory, working, episodic, semantic, and procedural), and memory subject (user-centric personalization and agent-centric experience). We then analyze how memory is operated under single- and multi-agent topologies and highlight learning policies over memory operations, showing how memory management itself is becoming a trainable capability spanning reinforcement-learned context curation, experience consolidation at decision time, and the emerging ecosystem of portable, shareable agent skills. Finally, we review evaluation benchmarks and metrics for memory utility, and outline open challenges and future directions.

智能体记忆自进化长期任务多智能体

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