# TeleMem: Building Long-Term and Multimodal Memory for Agentic AI

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06037 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.06037/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Agent memory systems, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 41 of its 47 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Dec 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Agent memory systems](https://mlsanity.com/agents/agent-memory-systems/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 41)

- [Qwen3 Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.09388/) (2025)
- [ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.03629/) (2022)
- [GPT-4o System Card](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.21276/) (2024)
- [Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.03172/) (2023)
- [Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05262/) (2022)
- [A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.12110/) (2025)
- [Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17753/) (2024)
- [Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.19413/) (2025)
- [MemoryBank: Enhancing Large Language Models with Long-Term Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.10250/) (2023)
- [Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.13956/) (2025)
- [VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10517/) (2024)
- [Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.06991/) (2022)
- [Augmenting Language Models with Long-Term Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07174/) (2023)
- [LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.18866/) (2025)
- [MIRIX: Multi-Agent Memory System for LLM-Based Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.07957/) (2025)
- [MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.03724/) (2025)
- [G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.07398/) (2025)
- [Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.16833/) (2024)
- [A Comprehensive Survey on Long Context Language Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.17407/) (2025)
- [On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.05589/) (2025)
- [Deep Video Discovery: Agentic Search with Tool Use for Long-form Video Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.18079/) (2025)
- [Seeing, Listening, Remembering, and Reasoning: A Multimodal Agent with Long-Term Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.09736/) (2025)
- [Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.15022/) (2023)
- [LongRAG: A Dual-Perspective Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigm for Long-Context Question Answering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.18050/) (2024)
- [What Deserves Memory: Adaptive Memory Distillation for LLM Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.03341/) (2025)
- [LiCoMemory: Lightweight and Cognitive Agentic Memory for Efficient Long-Term Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.01448/) (2025)
- [VisMem: Latent Vision Memory Unlocks Potential of Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.11007/) (2025)
- [MemVerse: Multimodal Memory for Lifelong Learning Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.03627/) (2025)
- [Personalized LLM Response Generation with Parameterized Memory Injection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.03565/) (2024)
- [SGMem: Sentence Graph Memory for Long-Term Conversational Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.21212/) (2025)

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

- [From Storage to Experience: A Survey on the Evolution of LLM Agent Memory Mechanisms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.06716/) (2026)
- [Governing Evolving Memory in LLM Agents: Risks, Mechanisms, and the Stability and Safety Governed Memory (SSGM) Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.11768/) (2026)
- [MementoGUI: Learning Agentic Multimodal Memory Control for Long-Horizon GUI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.18652/) (2026)
- [GenericAgent: A Token-Efficient Self-Evolving LLM Agent via Contextual Information Density Maximization (V1.0)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.17091/) (2026)
- [Towards Multimodal Lifelong Understanding: A Dataset and Agentic Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.05484/) (2026)
- [Mitigating Provenance-Role Collapse in Long-Term Agents via Typed Memory Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.25869/) (2026)
- [Visual Agentic Memory: Enabling Online Long Video Understanding via Online Indexing, Hierarchical Memory, and Agentic Retrieval](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.16481/) (2026)
- [Neuromem: A Granular Decomposition of the Streaming Lifecycle in External Memory for LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.13967/) (2026)
- [Do Agents Dream of False Memories? Black-box Visual Attacks on Long-term Memory in Multimodal AI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.15657/) (2026)
- [HippoCamp: Benchmarking Contextual Agents on Personal Computers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.01221/) (2026)
- [Task-Focused Memorization for Multimodal Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.31075/) (2026)
- [MemPose: Category-level Object Pose Estimation with Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.04930/) (2026)
- [EmbodiedMemory-Bench: Benchmarking Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.28236/) (2026)
- [Qwen-Planner-Agent: A Closed-Loop AI-for-AI Framework for Real-World Mobile Planner Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.29892/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Large language models (LLMs) excel at many NLP tasks but struggle to sustain long-term interactions due to limited attention over extended dialogue histories. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates this issue but lacks reliable mechanisms for updating or refining stored memories, leading to schema-driven hallucinations, inefficient write operations, and minimal support for multimodal reasoning.To address these challenges, we propose TeleMem, a unified long-term and multimodal memory system that maintains coherent user profiles through narrative dynamic extraction, ensuring that only dialogue-grounded information is preserved. TeleMem further introduces a structured writing pipeline that batches, retrieves, clusters, and consolidates memory entries, substantially improving storage efficiency, reducing token usage, and accelerating memory operations. Additionally, a multimodal memory module combined with ReAct-style reasoning equips the system with a closed-loop observe, think, and act process that enables accurate understanding of complex video content in long-term contexts. Experimental results show that TeleMem surpasses the state-of-the-art Mem0 baseline with 19% higher accuracy, 43% fewer tokens, and a 2.1x speedup on the ZH-4O long-term role-play gaming benchmark.