General Agentic Memory Via Deep Research
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent memory systems
Abstract (arXiv)
Memory is critical for AI agents, yet the widely-adopted static memory, aiming to create readily available memory in advance, is inevitably subject to severe information loss. To address this limitation, we propose a novel framework called general agentic memory (GAM). GAM follows the principle of "just-in time (JIT) compilation" where it focuses on creating optimized contexts for its client at runtime while keeping only simple but useful memory during the offline stage. To this end, GAM employs a duo-design with the following components. 1) Memorizer, which highlights key historical information using a lightweight memory, while maintaining complete historical information within a universal page-store. 2) Researcher, which retrieves and integrates useful information from the page-store for its online request guided by the pre-constructed memory. This design allows GAM to effectively leverage the agentic capabilities and test-time scalability of frontier large language models (LLMs), while also facilitating end-to-end performance optimization through reinforcement learning. In our experimental study, we demonstrate that GAM achieves substantial improvement on various memory-grounded task completion scenarios against existing memory systems.
Key facts. Cited by 42 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 17 of its 19 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Nov 2025.
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- 2024A Survey on the Memory Mechanism of Large Language Model based Agents21 Apr
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- 2025Memory in the Age of AI Agentscited by 285
- 2026SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agentscited by 140
- 2026Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineeringcited by 68
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- 2026Retrieval-Driven Memory Reconsolidation for Long-Term LLM Agentscited by 2
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- 2026DISCO: Distributed Long Context Scaling with Grounding-Reasoning Disaggregationcited by 0
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- 2026RefCon: Iterative Refinement and Contrastive Memory Extraction for Context-Evolving Agentcited by 0
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