arxivcs.AI2026-07-07
From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space
Yue Xu, Yutao Sun, Yihao Liu, Mengyu Zhou, Jiayi Qiao, Lu Ma, et al.
Long-term user memory is essential for personalized conversational agents, yet many memory systems still expose memory through passive retrieval interfaces, making the model a consumer of pre-selected evidence. We introduce NapMem, a framework for learning to use long-term user m…