MemSteer: Turning User Histories into Supervision for Agent Memory Optimization
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabMemSteer turns unlabeled user histories into question-answer supervision with supporting evidence for optimizing agent memory design. It builds an evidence-grounded answer plan linking facts across related records, guides question generation, and checks annotations with source-grounded auditing and blind answer recovery. MemSteer-Opt uses this supervision to revise memory store, retrieval, and context construction without updating model parameters. The paper reports competitive results with official-QA-guided optimization on ATM-Bench and RHELM.
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MemSteer turns unlabeled user histories into question-answer supervision with supporting evidence for optimizing agent memory design. It builds an evidence-grounded answer plan linking facts across related records, guides question generation, and checks annotations with source-grounded auditing and blind answer recovery. MemSteer-Opt uses this supervision to revise memory store, retrieval, and context construction without updating model parameters. The paper reports competitive results with official-QA-guided optimization on ATM-Bench and RHELM.
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- MemSteer generates QA supervision with supporting evidence from unlabeled user histories, avoiding costly manual labeling.
- Blind answer recovery and source-grounded auditing are used to check the generated annotations.
- MemSteer-Opt improves ATM-Bench Question Score by 13.4 points over the Base-BM25 baseline.
- On RHELM, accuracy gains over Base-BM25 are 4.1 points with chats only and 6.6 points with emails and documents.
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Agent memory systems need feedback to adapt to individual users, but labels for new user histories are rarely available. Generating evidence-backed supervision automatically could make memory design optimization practical without fine-tuning models.
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