@inproceedings{fang-etal-2026-memp,
    title = "Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory",
    author = "Fang, Runnan  and
      Liang, Yuan  and
      Wang, Xiaobin  and
      Wu, Jialong  and
      Qiao, Shuofei  and
      Xie, Pengjun  and
      Huang, Fei  and
      Chen, Huajun  and
      Zhang, Ningyu",
    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.866/",
    pages = "17490--17502",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
    abstract = "Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents excel at diverse tasks, yet they suffer from brittle procedural memory that is manually engineered or entangled in static parameters. In this work, we investigate strategies to endow agents with a learnable, updatable, and lifelong procedural memory. We propose a procedural-memory repository that distills past agent trajectories into both fine-grained, step-by-step instructions and higher-level, script-like abstractions. Coupled with a dynamic regimen that continuously updates, corrects, and deprecates its contents, this repository evolves in lockstep with new experience. Empirical evaluation on TravelPlanner and Alfworld shows that as the memory repository is refined, agents achieve steadily higher success rates and greater efficiency on analogous tasks. Moreover, procedural memory built from a stronger model retains its value: migrating the procedural memory to a weaker model yields substantial performance gains."
}