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TAME: A Trustworthy Test-Time Evolution of Agent Memory with Systematic Benchmarking

arXiv 2602.03224 ↗First posted 3 Feb 2026cs.AI cs.LGcited by 10

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent memory systems

Abstract (arXiv)

Test-time evolution of agent memory represents a pivotal paradigm for advancing AGI, as it strengthens complex reasoning through experience accumulation without requiring parameter updates. However, even during benign task evolution, agent safety alignment remains vulnerable, a phenomenon known as Agent Memory Misevolution. To evaluate this phenomenon, we construct the Trust-Memevo benchmark and find that agents exhibit an overall decline in trustworthiness across multiple tasks during benign task evolution. To address this issue, we propose TAME, a trust-aware memory evolution framework in which a shared memory bank is jointly governed by an Executor and an Evaluator. The Executor retrieves and applies transferable experiences to support task solving, while the Evaluator assesses the contribution of each utilized experience to the outcome and produces trust-aware feedback to guide subsequent memory use. This executor-evaluator loop enables memory to be selectively reinforced, cautiously reused, and continuously expanded over time. Experiments show that TAME mitigates memory misevolution while achieving strong task performance. In particular, on the GPT-5.2 AIME benchmark, TAME improves accuracy by 14.6 percentage points over the strongest existing method and maintains competitive trustworthiness.

Key facts. Cited by 10 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 26 of its 74 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 Feb 2026.

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26 of 74 references.

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  2. 2025Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution11 Dec
  3. 2025Evo-Memory: Benchmarking LLM Agent Test-time Learning with Self-Evolving Memory25 Nov
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  5. 2025MemGen: Weaving Generative Latent Memory for Self-Evolving Agents29 Sep
  6. 2025Memento: Fine-tuning LLM Agents without Fine-tuning LLMs22 Aug
  7. 2025Agent KB: Leveraging Cross-Domain Experience for Agentic Problem Solving8 Jul

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  1. 2026EvoMemBench: Benchmarking Agent Memory from a Self-Evolving Perspective
  2. 2026MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks
  3. 2026RefCon: Iterative Refinement and Contrastive Memory Extraction for Context-Evolving Agent
  4. 2026OPD-Evolver: Cultivating Holistic Agent Evolver via On-Policy Distillation
  5. 2025MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems
  6. 2026CHIME: Credit-Aware Hierarchical Memory Evolution for Long-Horizon Agentic Planning
  7. 2026TRUSTMEM: Learning Trustworthy Memory Consolidation for LLM Agents with Long-Term Memory
  8. 2026MACE: Memory-Agent Co-Evolution with Adaptive Memory Graphs for Multi-Agent Systems