Papers by Zhenzhen Huang
Lightweight LLM Agent Memory with Small Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Jiaquan Zhang, Chaoning Zhang, Shuxu Chen, Zhenzhen Huang, Pengcheng Zheng, Zhicheng Wang, Ping Guo, Fan Mo, Sung-Ho Bae, Jie Zou, Jiwei Wei, Yang Yang
| Challenge: | Existing external memory systems for LLMs have low online overhead but are unstable in accumulating latency over long interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight memory system for better agent memory driven by Small Language Models . lightmem modularizes memory retrieval, writing, and long-term consolidation . they show consistent gains across model scales and high efficiency . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves agent memory but has low latency and low online overhead . it separates online processing from offline consolidation to enable efficient memory invocation . the proposed system achieves an average F1 improvement of 2.5 over A-MEM on LoCoMo . |