Ruobin Zhong
2026
StructMem: Structured Memory for Long-Horizon Behavior in LLMs
Buqiang Xu | Yijun Chen | Jizhan Fang | Ruobin Zhong | Yunzhi Yao | Yuqi Zhu | Lun Du | Shumin Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Buqiang Xu | Yijun Chen | Jizhan Fang | Ruobin Zhong | Yunzhi Yao | Yuqi Zhu | Lun Du | Shumin Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Long-term conversational agents need memory systems that capture relationships between events, not merely isolated facts, to support temporal reasoning and multi-hop question answering. Current approaches face a fundamental trade-off: flat memory is efficient but fails to model relational structure, while graph-based memory enables structured reasoning at the cost of expensive and fragile construction. To address these issues, we propose StructMem, a structure-enriched hierarchical memory framework that preserves event-level bindings and induces cross-event connections. By temporally anchoring dual perspectives and performing periodic semantic consolidation, StructMem improves temporal reasoning and multi-hop performance on LoCoMo, while substantially reducing token usage, API calls, and runtime compared to prior memory systems.