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Paper: MemForest: An Efficient Agent Memory System with Hierarchical Temporal Indexing

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type: paper title: "MemForest: An Efficient Agent Memory System with Hierarchical Temporal Indexing" authors: Han Chen, Zining Zhang, Wenqi Pei, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Jason Zeng, Michael Heinrich, Wei Wu, et al. year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23986 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-05-16 updated_at: 2026-05-16 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• memory
• tool-use methods:

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• cs.DB
• cs.AI
• cs.MA related_concepts:

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collection_score: 15 collection_queries: agent-memory

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-memory
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, memory, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.DB, cs.AI, cs.MA
• collection score: 15

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23986