Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory

Sen Hu; Yuxiang Wei; Jiaxin Ran; Xueran Han; Zhiyuan Yao; Huacan Wang; Ronghao Chen; Lei Zou

Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory

Sen Hu, Yuxiang Wei, Jiaxin Ran, Xueran Han, Zhiyuan Yao, Huacan Wang, Ronghao Chen, Lei Zou

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[Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1232/) (Hu et al., ACL 2026)

Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory (Hu et al., ACL 2026)

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Sen Hu, Yuxiang Wei, Jiaxin Ran, Xueran Han, Zhiyuan Yao, Huacan Wang, Ronghao Chen, and Lei Zou. 2026. Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 26758–26782, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.