@inproceedings{ye-etal-2026-h,
    title = "{H}-Mem: Hybrid Multi-Dimensional Memory Management for Long-Context Conversational Agents",
    author = "Ye, Zihe  and
      Huang, Jingyuan  and
      Chen, Weixin  and
      Zhang, Yongfeng",
    editor = "Demberg, Vera  and
      Inui, Kentaro  and
      Marquez, Llu{\'i}s",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-long.363/",
    pages = "7756--7775",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-380-7",
    abstract = "Long-context conversational agents require robust memory, but existing frameworks struggle to organize information effectively across dimensions like time and topic, leading to poor retrieval. To address this, we introduce H-Mem, a novel Hybrid Multi-Dimensional Memory architecture. H-Mem stores conversational facts in two parallel, hierarchical data structures: a temporal tree that organizes information chronologically and a semantic tree that organizes it conceptually. This dual-tree design enables a hybrid retrieval mechanism managed by an intelligent Mode Controller. Based on the query, the controller dynamically chooses between a sequential search using semantic anchors and an intersective search combining both hierarchies. Our experiments on long-context QA datasets demonstrate that H-Mem provides a more flexible approach to memory management, leading to significant improvements of over 8.4{\%} compared to other state-of-the-art systems."
}