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MemoryBank
MemoryBank: Enhancing Large Language Models with Long-Term MemoryAgent / long-term memory · first seen May 17, 2023
superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods
3 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks
What papers say
Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites MemoryBank as a baseline.
“Existing memory systems~memgpt,memorybank,smolagents,agentlite for LLM agents provide basic memory storage functionality. These systems require agent developers to predefine memory storage structures, specify storage points within the workflow, and establish retrieval timing.”
— A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents“Early memory mechanisms in LLM-based agents typically relied on heuristic-based static workflows.”
— AtomMem : Learnable Dynamic Agentic Memory with Atomic Memory Operation“existing benchmarks~MemoryBank,locomo abstract away the memory formation process during interaction and do not align with this view.”
— EMemBench: Interactive Benchmarking of Episodic Memory for VLM Agents
Beaten on benchmarks
Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating MemoryBank. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.
- HingeMem: Boundary Guided Long-Term Memory with Query Adaptive Retrieval for Scalable Dialogues
HingeMem beats MemoryBank · F1 [Overall]
63.9 vs 5.2
- HingeMem: Boundary Guided Long-Term Memory with Query Adaptive Retrieval for Scalable Dialogues
HingeMem beats MemoryBank · F1 [Multi-Hop]
53.6 vs 9.1
Newer alternatives
Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.
- HingeMemHingeMem: Boundary Guided Long-Term Memory with Query Adaptive Retrieval for Scalable DialoguesApr 8, 2026
- Jan 13, 2026
- Nov 25, 2025
- Generative Semantic Workspace (GSW)Beyond Fact Retrieval: Episodic Memory for RAG with Generative Semantic WorkspacesNov 10, 2025
- Oct 7, 2025
- PREMemPre-Storage Reasoning for Episodic Memory: Shifting Inference Burden to Memory for Personalized DialogueSep 13, 2025