Zuyi Zhou
2026
EverMemOS: A Self-Organizing Memory Operating System for Structured Long-Horizon Reasoning
Chuanrui Hu | Xingze Gao | Zuyi Zhou | Dannong Xu | Yi Bai | Xintong Li | Hui Zhang | Tong Li | Chong Zhang | Lidong Bing | Yafeng Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Chuanrui Hu | Xingze Gao | Zuyi Zhou | Dannong Xu | Yi Bai | Xintong Li | Hui Zhang | Tong Li | Chong Zhang | Lidong Bing | Yafeng Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extended interactions. Existing memory systems for LLMs often store isolated records and retrieve fragments, limiting their ability to consolidate evolving experience and resolve conflicts. We introduce EverMemOS, a self-organizing memory operating system that implements an engram-inspired lifecycle for computational memory. First, Episodic Trace Formation converts dialogue streams into MemCells that capture episodic traces, atomic facts, and time-bounded foresight. Second, Semantic Consolidation organizes MemCells into thematic MemScenes, distilling stable semantic structures and updating user profiles. Finally, Reconstructive Recollection performs MemScene-guided agentic retrieval to compose the necessary and sufficient context for downstream reasoning. Experiments on LoCoMo, LongMemEval, and PersonaMem-v2 show that EverMemOS significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on memory-augmented reasoning tasks.
HyperMem: Hypergraph Memory for Long-Term Conversations
Juwei Yue | Chuanrui Hu | Jiawei Sheng | Zuyi Zhou | Wenyuan Zhang | Tingwen Liu | Li Guo | Yafeng Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Juwei Yue | Chuanrui Hu | Jiawei Sheng | Zuyi Zhou | Wenyuan Zhang | Tingwen Liu | Li Guo | Yafeng Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Long-term memory is essential for conversational agents to maintain coherence, track persistent tasks, and provide personalized interactions across extended dialogues. However, existing approaches as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and graph-based memory mostly rely on pairwise relations, which can hardly capture high-order associations, i.e., joint dependencies among multiple elements, causing fragmented retrieval. To this end, we propose HyperMem, a hypergraph-based hierarchical memory architecture that explicitly models such associations using hyperedges. Particularly, HyperMem structures memory into three levels: topics, episodes, and facts, and groups related episodes and their facts via hyperedges, unifying scattered content into coherent units. Leveraging this structure, we design a hybrid lexical-semantic index and a coarse-to-fine retrieval strategy, supporting accurate and efficient retrieval of high-order associations. Experiments on the LoCoMo benchmark show that HyperMem achieves state-of-the-art performance with 92.73% LLM-as-a-judge accuracy, demonstrating the effectiveness of HyperMem for long-term conversations.