Method Drift

Living systematic review

Agent / long-term memory

Giving LLM agents persistent, retrievable memory across turns and sessions.

69 papers · 99 critique receipts · 540 benchmark results · updated Jun 18, 2026

Most-superseded baselines

Ranked by how many distinct papers critique or beat each method. These are the standard baselines newer work routinely measures against.

  1. 1
    Mem0· Mem0
    Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory

    3 papers critique it · 15 beat it on benchmarks

  2. 2
    A-MEM· Mem0
    A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents

    5 papers critique it · 12 beat it on benchmarks

  3. 3
    Zep· Mem0
    Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory

    1 papers critique it · 9 beat it on benchmarks

  4. 4
    Nemori· Nemori
    Nemori: Self-Organizing Agent Memory Inspired by Cognitive Science

    2 papers critique it · 5 beat it on benchmarks

  5. 5
    RAPTOR· RAPTOR
    RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval

    3 papers critique it · 4 beat it on benchmarks

  6. 6
    MemGPT· RAPTOR
    MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

    4 papers critique it · 3 beat it on benchmarks

  7. 8
    MemoryOS· Mem0
    Memory OS of AI Agent

    2 papers critique it · 4 beat it on benchmarks

  8. 10
    LightMem· Mem0
    LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation

    1 papers critique it · 4 beat it on benchmarks

  9. 11
    Reflexion· Reflexion
    Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning

    3 papers critique it · 2 beat it on benchmarks

Sub-problems

Methods that compete on the same benchmarks cluster into distinct sub-problems.

Mem0 · 31 methods

Mem0 · A-MEM · Zep · MemoryOS · LightMem · Memory-R1

RAPTOR · 25 methods

RAPTOR · MemGPT · HippoRAG 2 · HippoRAG · MemoryBank · GraphRAG

Nemori · 13 methods

Nemori · MemSkill · MemOS · EverMemOS · MAGMA · Memora

Chameleon · 9 methods

Chameleon · MemoryVLA · Long Term Memory · DP-PTP · SAM2Act+ · ReMem-VLA

Reflexion · 5 methods

Reflexion · Retrospex · AriGraph · EMPO^2 · Simulacra

MIRIX · 3 methods

MIRIX · EviMem · MemBuilder

ReMem · 3 methods

ReMem · Live-Evo · MiroFlow

Memento · 3 methods

Memento · Learning to Retrieve · MemRL

Generative Agents · 3 methods

Generative Agents · Mem-Gallery · MemLens

The frontier

Recent methods not yet superseded in the knowledge base.