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2026
SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents
Wenxuan Wang | Haoyu Sun | Fukuan Hou | Mingyang Song | Weinan Zhang | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Wenxuan Wang | Haoyu Sun | Fukuan Hou | Mingyang Song | Weinan Zhang | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Persistent AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, accumulate large collections of related memories over long-term interactions. As these memories grow, they may reinforce one another, diverge across contexts, or directly conflict, making correct assistance depend on memory relations rather than isolated recall. Existing long-term memory benchmarks do not systematically probe how agents preserve and utilize such relations during downstream tasks. To address this gap, we introduce SubtleMemory, a benchmark for fine-grained relational memory discrimination in long-running AI agents. SubtleMemory constructs relation-controlled latent semantic artifacts whose variants instantiate complementary, nuanced, or contradictory relations, and embeds them into realistic user-agent histories, requiring agents to recover distributed relational structures during later queries and instructions.The benchmark contains 1,522 evaluation instances over 10 long histories, grounded in 1,090 relation-controlled memory-variant sets and spanning user-related and non-user-related queries. Evaluating six standalone memory systems, two Claw-style agents with native memory modules, and three Claw-style agents with plugin memory modules, we find that current systems remain weak on fine-grained relational memory discrimination. We further introduce diagnostic protocols that reveal distinct capability profiles across memory preservation, retrieval, and downstream reasoning stages.
Agent Planning Benchmark: A Diagnostic Framework for Planning Capabilities in LLM Agents
Haoyu Sun | Wenxuan Wang | Mingyang Song | Jujie He | Weinan Zhang | Yang Liu | Yang Yang | Yu Cheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Haoyu Sun | Wenxuan Wang | Mingyang Song | Jujie He | Weinan Zhang | Yang Liu | Yang Yang | Yu Cheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Planning is central to LLM agents: before acting, an agent must decompose goals, select tools, reason over constraints, and decide when a task is infeasible. Yet existing agent evaluations often report only end-to-end success, making it difficult to determine whether failures stem from planning or execution. We introduce Agent Planning Benchmark (APB), a planning-specific diagnostic benchmark with 4,209 multimodal cases across 22 domains and five settings, covering holistic planning, feedback-conditioned step-wise planning, and robustness under extraneous tools, broken tools, and unsolvable tasks. Across 12 MLLMs, APB reveals systematic weaknesses in long-horizon planning, tool-noise robustness, calibrated refusal, and inference-time refinement. We further validate APB on 200 ToolSandbox tasks and 200 𝜏2-bench tasks, where APB-guided refinement consistently improves plan correctness, plan grade, and downstream execution metrics across three representative models. APB thus serves as an upstream diagnostic complement to execution benchmarks. The APB benchmark and code are available in this URL.
LatentMem: Customizing Latent Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
Muxin Fu | Xiangyuan Xue | Yafu Li | Zefeng He | Siyuan Huang | Xiaoye Qu | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Muxin Fu | Xiangyuan Xue | Yafu Li | Zefeng He | Siyuan Huang | Xiaoye Qu | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence, with multi-agent memory serving as a pivotal mechanism for continual adaptation. However, existing multi-agent memory designs remain constrained by two fundamental bottlenecks: (i) memory homogenization caused by limited role-aware customization, and (ii) information overload induced by exposing agents to excessively fine-grained textual memories. To address these limitations, we propose LatentMem, a learnable multi-agent memory framework that customizes agent-specific experiential memories while reducing textual context. Specifically, LatentMem comprises an experience bank for lightweight storage of raw interaction trajectories and a memory composer that synthesizes compact latent memories conditioned on retrieved experience and agent-specific contexts. Further, we introduce Latent Memory Policy Optimization (LMPO), which propagates task-level optimization signals through latent memories to learn compact, high-utility latent representations. Extensive experiments across six benchmarks and four mainstream MAS frameworks show that LatentMem improves vanilla settings by up to 19.36% and consistently outperforms existing memory architectures, without requiring modifications to the agent-layer workflows.