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Discovering Effective Agent Memory Designs through Program Evolution

Xinheng Ding, Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Ziyang Zhang, Tairan Chen +4 more

Published

Nov 12, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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Nov 12, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness. We introduce MAPE, a framework that evolves whole memory programs from minimal seeds through a standardized lifecycle interface and an iterative diagnosis-proposal loop. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval yield an absolute accuracy gain of up to 12% over manually designed baselines at 35% of the serving cost, with further evaluations supporting transfer across serving backbones and benchmarks. Empirical analyses and ablations identify and validate two recurring design patterns: retaining raw conversations as retrievable evidence preserves details omitted from extracted memories, while composing retrieved evidence according to query intent helps the answering model use it effectively. Transplanting the composition module into five existing memory systems improves accuracy across all five. Beyond these patterns, the search objective shapes where computation goes: optimizing serving cost alongside accuracy shifts computation from LLM-based memory construction to selective processing at query time while retaining competitive accuracy. Together, these findings offer empirical lessons for agent memory design. Code is available at https://github.com/ash-ding/MAPE.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval yield an absolute accuracy gain of up to 12% over manually designed baselines at 35% of the serving cost, with further evaluations supporting transfer across serving backbones and benchmarks."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Medicine, Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness.
  • We introduce MAPE, a framework that evolves whole memory programs from minimal seeds through a standardized lifecycle interface and an iterative diagnosis-proposal loop.
  • Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval yield an absolute accuracy gain of up to 12% over manually designed baselines at 35% of the serving cost, with further evaluations supporting transfer across serving backbones and benchmarks.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Accuracy

Contribution summary

  • Program evolution provides a promising approach to discover agent memory designs and study the choices underlying their effectiveness.
  • We introduce MAPE, a framework that evolves whole memory programs from minimal seeds through a standardized lifecycle interface and an iterative diagnosis-proposal loop.

Why it matters for eval

  • Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval yield an absolute accuracy gain of up to 12% over manually designed baselines at 35% of the serving cost, with further evaluations supporting transfer across serving backbones and benchmarks.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy