让大模型更会找旧记忆,补上语义远但重要的关联信息。
CABLE: Extending the Reach of Memory Retrieval via Complementary Antecedent-Based Linking and Expansion

- 用反向提问挖掘早期关键记忆,构建互补链接图
- 在多轮对话中显著提升跨会话证据召回率,尤其在开放域问题上
- 适合需要长期推理的智能体,如个性化助手或复杂任务规划
随着大模型智能体在结构化流程和多会话中运行,仅保存长期历史并不保证后续上下文能通过有限接口恢复相关证据。本文研究长时对话记忆中的证据可及性问题,发现现有检索仍依赖语义相似度,虽利于主题回忆,却常遗漏与后期事件语义相距较远但具有解释力的早期经历、计划或动机。现有记忆图谱虽提供跨记忆结构,但主要基于语义重叠的连接常重复检索器已能获取的内容。我们提出CABLE(互补前因链接与扩展),一种即插即用的增强模块,通过生成前因导向查询,检索早期记忆,剔除直接语义邻近项,并验证后将保留的互补关联加入稀疏有向图。检索时,系统沿这些链接扩展种子,揭示隐含支持证据。在LoCoMo和MA-LongMemEval数据集上评估,集成至SimpleMem和Mem0g系统,使用Qwen3.5-27B、DeepSeek-chat和GPT-4o-mini,CABLE在所有设置下均获得更高均值LLM评分,尤其在证据分散于多记忆或多会话的开放域、多会话及偏好型问题中提升最显著。结果表明,优先构建稀疏且与推理相关的互补关联,优于重复已有检索结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As LLM agents operate across structured workflows and sessions, preserving long-term history does not ensure that later contexts can recover relevant evidence through a bounded memory interface. We study this evidence-reachability problem in long-term conversational memory, where retrieval still relies heavily on semantic similarity. This works well for topical recall, but it often misses earlier experiences, plans, or motivations that are semantically distant from the later events they help explain. Existing memory graphs provide cross-memory structure, yet links driven mainly by semantic overlap can duplicate what the host retriever already recovers. We argue that link construction should instead prioritize a sparse set of retriever-complementary associations. We present CABLE (Complementary Antecedent-Based Linking and Expansion), a plug-in augmentation that constructs links designed to extend the host retriever's direct semantic reach. For each new memory, CABLE generates antecedent-oriented queries, retrieves prior memories, subtracts candidates in the direct semantic neighborhood, and verifies the remainder before adding the accepted complementary associations into a sparse directed graph. At retrieval time, CABLE expands the host system's retrieved seeds along these links to surface implicit supporting evidence. We evaluate CABLE with A-MEM on LoCoMo and MA-LongMemEval, and further integrate it into SimpleMem and Mem0g on LoCoMo, using Qwen3.5-27B, DeepSeek-chat, and GPT-4o-mini. CABLE yields higher mean LLM-judge scores in every evaluated system-level setting, with the largest gains in categories where useful evidence is distributed across memories or sessions, including open-domain, multi-session, and preference-oriented questions. These results support prioritizing sparse, reasoning-relevant associations that complement rather than duplicate the host retriever.
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