@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-validity,
    title = "Validity Is Not Visibility: A Lifecycle {FSM} for Agent Memory",
    author = "Zhou, Shuo  and
      Xu, Pengcheng  and
      qi, Shaotong  and
      Que, Li  and
      Sun, Ming  and
      Li, Han",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.260/",
    pages = "5895--5913",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}