Long Context Modeling with Ranked Memory-Augmented Retrieval

Ghadir Alselwi, Hao Xue, Shoaib Jameel, Basem Suleiman, Flora D. Salim, Imran Razzak


Abstract
Effective long-term memory management is crucial for language models handling extended contexts. We introduce the Enhanced Ranked Memory Augmented Retrieval ERMAR framework, which dynamically ranks memory entries based on relevance. Unlike prior models, ERMAR employs a novel relevance scoring mechanism and a pointwise re-ranking model for key-value embeddings, inspired by learning-to-rank techniques in information retrieval. By integrating historical usage patterns and adaptive retrieval, ERMAR achieves state-of-the-art results on standard benchmarks, demonstrating superior scalability and performance in long-context tasks.
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2026.acl-long.162
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, United States
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Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
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Ghadir Alselwi, Hao Xue, Shoaib Jameel, Basem Suleiman, Flora D. Salim, and Imran Razzak. 2026. Long Context Modeling with Ranked Memory-Augmented Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3576–3590, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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