Human-Inspired Memory Architecture for LLM Agents

Doga Kerestecioglu, Alexei Robsky, Clemens Vasters, Anshul Sharma, Yitzhak Kesselman
5/8/2026
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Abstract

Current LLM agents lack principled mechanisms for managing persistent memory across long interaction horizons. We present a biologically-grounded memory architecture comprising six cognitive mechanisms: (1) sleep-phase consolidation, (2) interference-based forgetting, (3) engram maturation, (4) reconsolidation upon retrieval, (5) entity knowledge graphs, and (6) hybrid multi-cue retrieval. Each mechanism addresses a specific failure mode of naive memory accumulation. We introduce a synthetic calibration methodology that derives all pipeline thresholds without benchmark data exposure, eliminating a common source of evaluation leakage. We evaluate on two benchmarks. First, a VSCode issue-tracking dataset (13K issues, 120K events) where deduplication-based consolidation achieves 97.2% retention precision with 58% store reduction (+21.8 pp over baseline). Second, the LongMemEval personal-chat benchmark where we conduct the first streaming M-tier evaluation (475 sessions, ~540K unique turns). At a 200K-token context budget, our pipeline matches raw retrieval accuracy (70.1% vs. 71.2%, overlapping 95% CI) while exposing a tunable accuracy/store-size operating curve. At S-tier scale (50 sessions), dedup-based consolidation yields a +13.3 pp improvement in preference recall.

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@article{kerestecioglu2026humaninspired,
  title  = {Human-Inspired Memory Architecture for LLM Agents},
  author = {Doga Kerestecioglu and Alexei Robsky and Clemens Vasters and Anshul Sharma and Yitzhak Kesselman},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.08538},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08538v1}
}

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