# Commonsense-augmented Memory Construction and Management in Long-term Conversations via Context-aware Persona Refinement

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14215 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.14215/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 29 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Jan 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02155/) (2022)
- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.03172/) (2023)
- [A Broad-Coverage Challenge Corpus for Sentence Understanding through Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.05426/) (2017)
- [Unsupervised Dense Information Retrieval with Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.09118/) (2021)
- [Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.07243/) (2018)
- [Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.09977/) (2020)
- [Beyond Goldfish Memory: Long-Term Open-Domain Conversation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.07567/) (2021)
- [COMET-ATOMIC 2020: On Symbolic and Neural Commonsense Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.05953/) (2020)
- [Dialogue Natural Language Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00671/) (2018)
- [Keep Me Updated! Memory Management in Long-term Conversations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08750/) (2022)
- [Like hiking? You probably enjoy nature: Persona-grounded Dialog with Commonsense Expansions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03205/) (2020)
- [Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.09343/) (2023)
- [CICERO: A Dataset for Contextualized Commonsense Inference in Dialogues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.13926/) (2022)
- [Think Before You Speak: Explicitly Generating Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08501/) (2021)
- [Reflect, Not Reflex: Inference-Based Common Ground Improves Dialogue Response Quality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09267/) (2022)
- [Dual Task Framework for Improving Persona-grounded Dialogue Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05435/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [Memory in the Age of AI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.13564/) (2025)
- [From Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.18231/) (2024)
- [Two Tales of Persona in LLMs: A Survey of Role-Playing and Personalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.01171/) (2024)
- [Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.10996/) (2024)
- [Cognitive Memory in Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02441/) (2025)
- [Recent Trends in Personalized Dialogue Generation: A Review of Datasets, Methodologies, and Evaluations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.17974/) (2024)
- [Whose Personae? Synthetic Persona Experiments in LLM Research and Pathways to Transparency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.00461/) (2025)
- [SHARE: Shared Memory-Aware Open-Domain Long-Term Dialogue Dataset Constructed from Movie Script](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.20682/) (2024)
- [Collaborate, Deliberate, Evaluate: How LLM Alignment Affects Coordinated Multi-Agent Outcomes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.05882/) (2025)
- [Persona-SQ: A Personalized Suggested Question Generation Framework For Real-world Documents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.12445/) (2024)
- [Post Persona Alignment for Multi-Session Dialogue Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.11857/) (2025)
- [Learning "Partner-Aware" Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaboration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22462/) (2025)
- [Adaptive Multi-Agent Response Refinement in Conversational Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.08319/) (2025)
- [Ekova: A Personality-Support Agent for Self-Discovery Dialogue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.00478/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Memorizing and utilizing speakers' personas is a common practice for response generation in long-term conversations. Yet, human-authored datasets often provide uninformative persona sentences that hinder response quality. This paper presents a novel framework that leverages commonsense-based persona expansion to address such issues in long-term conversation. While prior work focuses on not producing personas that contradict others, we focus on transforming contradictory personas into sentences that contain rich speaker information, by refining them based on their contextual backgrounds with designed strategies. As the pioneer of persona expansion in multi-session settings, our framework facilitates better response generation via human-like persona refinement. The supplementary video of our work is available at https://caffeine-15bbf.web.app/.