@inproceedings{cao-etal-2026-higmem, title = "{H}i{GM}em: A Hierarchical and {LLM}-Guided Memory System for Long-Term Conversational Agents", author = "Cao, Shuqi and He, Jingyi and Tan, Fei", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1690/", pages = "33853--33862", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }