Shaoning Zeng
2026
H-MEM: Hierarchical Memory for High-Efficiency Long-Term Reasoning in LLM Agents
Haoran Sun | Shaoning Zeng | Bob Zhang
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Haoran Sun | Shaoning Zeng | Bob Zhang
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Long-term memory is one of the key factors influencing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model Agents (LLM Agents). Incorporating a memory mechanism that effectively integrates past interactions can significantly enhance decision-making and contextual coherence of LLM Agents. While recent works have made progress in memory storage and retrieval, such as encoding memory into dense vectors for similarity-based search or organizing knowledge in the form of graph, these approaches often fall short in structured memory organization and efficient retrieval. To address these limitations, we propose a Hierarchical Memory Architecture that organizes and updates memory in a multi-level fashion based on the degree of semantic abstraction. Each memory vector at a higher level is embedded with a positional index encoding pointing to its semantically related sub-memories in the next layer. During the reasoning phase, an index-based routing mechanism enables efficient, layer-by-layer retrieval without performing exhaustive similarity computations. We evaluate our method on five task settings from the LoCoMo dataset. Experimental results show that our approach consistently outperforms five baseline methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in long-term dialogue scenarios.
Think Parallax: Solving Multi-Hop Problems via Multi-View Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jinliang Liu | Jiale Bai | Shaoning Zeng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jinliang Liu | Jiale Bai | Shaoning Zeng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with multi-hop reasoning over knowledge-graphs (KGs), and we identify a previously overlooked structural reason for this difficulty: Transformer attention heads naturally specialize in distinct semantic relations across reasoning stages, forming a hop-aligned relay pattern. This key finding suggests that multi-hop reasoning is inherently multi-view, yet existing KG-based retrieval-augmented generation (KG-RAG) systems collapse all reasoning hops into a single representation, flat embedding space, suppressing this implicit structure and causing noisy or drifted path exploration. We introduce ParallaxRAG, a symmetric multi-view framework that decouples queries and KGs into aligned, head-specific retrieval spaces. By enforcing relational diversity across heads while constraining weakly related paths, ParallaxRAG constructs more accurate, cleaner subgraphs and guides LLMs through grounded, hop-wise reasoning. On WebQSP and CWQ, it achieves state-of-the-art retrieval and QA performance, substantially reduces hallucination, and generalizes strongly to the biomedical BioASQ benchmark. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/LucaLiu1313/ParallaxRAG.