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Dynamic Affective Memory Management for Personalized LLM Agents

arXiv 2510.27418 ↗First posted 31 Oct 2025cs.CLcited by 7

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Abstract (arXiv)

Advances in large language models are making personalized AI agents a new research focus. While current agent systems primarily rely on personalized external memory databases to deliver customized experiences, they face challenges such as memory redundancy, memory staleness, and poor memory-context integration, largely due to the lack of effective memory updates during interaction. To tackle these issues, we propose a new memory management system designed for affective scenarios. Our approach employs a Bayesian-inspired memory update algorithm with the concept of memory entropy, enabling the agent to autonomously maintain a dynamically updated memory vector database by minimizing global entropy to provide more personalized services. To better evaluate the system's effectiveness in this context, we propose DABench, a benchmark focusing on emotional expression and emotional change toward objects. Experimental results demonstrate that, our system achieves superior performance in personalization, logical coherence, and accuracy. Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of the Bayesian-inspired update mechanism in alleviating memory bloat. Our work offers new insights into the design of long-term memory systems.

Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent memory systems, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 11 of its 20 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Oct 2025.

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  1. 2025A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents17 Feb
  2. 2024Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue9 Jun
  3. 2024A Survey on the Memory Mechanism of Large Language Model based Agents21 Apr
  4. 2024Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents27 Feb

Other references · 7

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  5. 2017End-to-End Neural Ad-hoc Ranking with Kernel Poolingcited by 85
  6. 2024An Iterative Associative Memory Model for Empathetic Response Generationcited by 8
  7. 2024RAM: Towards an Ever-Improving Memory System by Learning from Communicationscited by 6

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  1. 2026Graph-Based Personalized Memory for LLM Agents: Representation, Evolution, Retrieval, and Evaluation
  2. 2025Rethinking Memory in LLM based Agents: Representations, Operations, and Emerging Topics
  3. 2025Preference-Aware Memory Update for Long-Term LLM Agents
  4. 2026Emotion-Attended Stateful Memory (EASM):The Architecture for Hyper-Personalization at Scale
  5. 2026From Recall to Forgetting: Benchmarking Long-Term Memory for Personalized Agents
  6. 2026PsychoAgent: An Affect-Sensitive Cognitive Architecture for Conflict-Aware Memory in LLM Agents
  7. 2025Enabling Personalized Long-term Interactions in LLM-based Agents through Persistent Memory and User Profiles
  8. 2026Personalize-then-Store: Benchmarking and Learning Personalized Memory for Long-horizon Agents