Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory

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Authors: Runnan Fang, Yuan Liang, Xiaobin Wang, Jing Wu, Shuofei Qiao, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
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Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents excel at diverse tasks, yet they suffer from brittle procedural memory that is manually engineered or entangled in static parameters.In this work, we investigate strategies to endow agents with a learnable, updatable, and lifelong procedural memory.We propose M em p that distills past agent trajectories into both finegrained, step-by-step instructions and higherlevel, script-like abstractions, and explore the impact of different strategies for Build, Retrieval, and Update of procedural memory.Coupled with a dynamic regimen that continuously updates, corrects, and deprecates its contents, this repository evolves in lockstep with new experience.Empirical evaluation on TravelPlanner and ALFWorld shows that as the memory repository is refined, agents achieve steadily higher success rates and greater efficiency on analogous tasks.Moreover, procedural memory built from a stronger model retains its value: migrating the procedural memory to a weaker model can also yield substantial performance gains.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Topic Modeling

Publication details

Journal / source
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
17490–17502
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN