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LMEB benchmark evaluates long-horizon memory retrieval beyond traditional passage retrieval

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Researchers have introduced the Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark (LMEB), a new evaluation framework designed to assess the capabilities of embedding models in handling complex, long-horizon memory retrieval tasks. Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on traditional passage retrieval, LMEB incorporates 22 datasets and 193 zero-shot tasks across four distinct memory types: episodic, dialogue, semantic, and procedural. Initial evaluations of 15 models indicate that LMEB presents a suitable challenge, that larger model size does not guarantee better performance, and that LMEB measures different capabilities than the MTEB benchmark. AI

IMPACT Introduces a new benchmark that may drive development of models better suited for long-term, context-dependent memory retrieval.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xinping Zhao, Xinshuo Hu, Jiaxin Xu, Danyu Tang, Xin Zhang, Mengjia Zhou, Yan Zhong, Yao Zhou, Zifei Shan, Meishan Zhang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang ·

    LMEB: Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark

    arXiv:2603.12572v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memory embeddings are crucial for memory-augmented systems, such as OpenClaw, but their evaluation is underexplored in current text embedding benchmarks, which narrowly focus on traditional passage retrieval and fail to assess m…

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