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AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications

arXiv 2602.22769 ↗First posted 26 Feb 2026cs.AI cs.LGcited by 46

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as autonomous agents in complex, long-horizon applications, where effective memory is critical for sustained performance. Yet existing memory benchmarks are largely dialogue-centric, while real agent memory consists of continuous agent-environment interaction trajectories composed of states, actions, observations, and tool outputs. To address this gap, we introduce **AMA-Bench** (**A**gent **M**emory with **A**ny length), a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon memory in realistic agentic settings. AMA-Bench combines real-world agent trajectories from representative applications with expert-curated QA, as well as synthetic trajectories that scale to arbitrary horizons with rule-based QA. Our study shows that existing memory systems underperform because they fail to capture causal and objective information and rely heavily on lossy similarity-based retrieval. We further propose **AMA-Agent**, a memory system based on causality-graph construction and tool-augmented retrieval. AMA-Agent achieves **57.22%** accuracy on AMA-Bench, outperforming the strongest baseline by **11.16%**. Resources are available at: [https://ama-bench.github.io/](https://ama-bench.github.io/).

Key facts. Cited by 46 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 35 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Feb 2026.

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