arxivcs.LG2026-07-17
Presentation, Not Mechanism: A Render Confound in Deprecation-Aware Memory Evaluation
Zhaoyang Jiang, Zhizhong Fu, Zicheng Li, Yunsoo Kim, Jiacong Mi, Xuanqi Peng, et al.
AI systems increasingly retrieve from records that revise themselves: issue threads, encyclopedic histories, policy logs, and long conversations. The challenge is not only finding relevant evidence, but deciding which claims remain in force, which were superseded, and when to abs…