@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-beyond-semantic, title = "Beyond Semantic Organization: Memory as Execution State Management for Long-Horizon Agents", author = "Chen, Yaoqi and Lai, Haibin and Feng, Yuru and Han, Chuyu and Zhang, Qianxi and Lu, Baotong and Li, Menghao and Wang, Xinjiang and Jin, Zewen and Wu, Hao and Li, Cheng and Chen, Qi", 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.828/", pages = "19255--19272", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }