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Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Multi-Party Collaborative Dialogues

arXiv 2602.01313 ↗First posted 1 Feb 2026cs.CL cs.AIcited by 16

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Abstract (arXiv)

Long-term conversational memory in practical LLM applications is inherently collaborative: information is produced by multiple participants, scattered across groups and channels, revised over time, and implicitly grounded in roles and social context. Yet there is currently no established benchmark that evaluates memory under interaction patterns resembling real-world deployment, as existing benchmarks largely focus on dyadic or single-topic dialogues. In this paper, we introduce EverMemBench, the first benchmark designed for long-horizon collaborative memory, built from multi-party, multi-group conversations spanning over one million tokens with dense cross-topic interleaving, temporally evolving decisions, and role-conditioned personas. EverMemBench evaluates memory systems using 2400 QA pairs across three dimensions essential for real applications: fine-grained recall, memory awareness, and user profile understanding. Our evaluation reveals fundamental limitations of current systems: multi-hop reasoning collapses under multi-party attribution even with oracle evidence (26% accuracy), temporal reasoning fails without explicit version semantics beyond timestamps, and memory awareness is bottlenecked by retrieval, as similarity-based methods miss implicitly relevant information. EverMemBench thus represents a concrete step toward realistic evaluation of LLM memory and a cornerstone benchmark for developing next-generation LLMs that reason over time, roles, and collaborative interaction structure. Our benchmark and code are publicly available at https://github.com/EverMind-AI/EverMemBench.

Key facts. Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 27 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Feb 2026.

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  1. 2026GateMem: Benchmarking Memory Governance in Multi-Principal Shared-Memory Agentscited by 8
  2. 2026MultiHaystack: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval and Reasoning over 40K Images, Videos, and Documentscited by 3
  3. 2026H2HMem: A Multimodal Memory Benchmark for Agents in Human-Human Interactionscited by 3
  4. 2026MemOps: Benchmarking Lifecycle Memory Operations in Long-Horizon Conversationscited by 3
  5. 2026AdaMem: Learning What to Remember with Adaptive Memory Policies for Personalized Agentscited by 2
  6. 2026RippleMem: From Isolated Retrieval to Associative Recollection for Long-Term Agent Memorycited by 2
  7. 2026SocialMemBench: Are AI Memory Systems Ready for Social Group Settings?cited by 1
  8. 2026FinPersona-Bench: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Psychometric Stability of Autonomous Financial Agentscited by 1
  9. 2026MemArena: An Ego-Centric Benchmark for On-Device Agentic Personal Memory Assistants at Scalecited by 0
  10. 2026ArborMem: Navigating Interaction States with Memory Forestscited by 0
  11. 2026MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observationscited by 0
  12. 2026AutoViewMem: Self-Configuring Orthogonal Views for Conversational Long-Term Memorycited by 0
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  2. 2026Probing Stability-Plasticity Tradeoffs in Agent Memory through Cognitive Experimental Paradigmscited by 0
  3. 2026Beyond Dyadic Memory: Interaction-Aware Multimodal Memory with Adaptive Agentic Retrieval for Multi-Party Spoken Conversationscited by 0
  4. 2026Audience-Bound Persistent Memory: Authorization Across the Memory Lifecyclecited by 0

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