Field-Theoretic Memory for AI Agents: Continuous Dynamics for Context Preservation
Abstract
We present a memory system for AI agents that treats stored information as continuous fields governed by partial differential equations rather than discrete entries in a database. The approach draws from classical field theory: memories diffuse through semantic space, decay thermodynamically based on importance, and interact through field coupling in multi-agent scenarios. We evaluate the system on two established long-context benchmarks: LoCoMo (ACL 2024) with 300-turn conversations across 35 sessions, and LongMemEval (ICLR 2025) testing multi-session reasoning over 500+ turns. On LongMemEval, the field-theoretic approach achieves significant improvements: +116% F1 on multi-session reasoning (p
Fields of Study & Subjects
Topic Modeling
AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
Speech and dialogue systems
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 31 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint