Still calling an LLM for every single memory operation your agent makes? This paper splits that work between a "fast brain" and a "slow brain" instead.
Title: Jev-Mem: System-One-Controlled Agentic Memory for Efficient AI Agents
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Inspired by dual-process cognition (System One vs. System Two), Jev-Mem handles most memory operations with lightweight structured decisions and reserves the LLM for genuinely complex reasoning. Three highlights stand out.
๐ง Typed System-One control
Frequent operations like typing, relation judgment, and query routing run through a lightweight interface that returns probabilities and labels instead of free-form text โ the same control layer governs both memory construction and retrieval.
๐ธ๏ธ A four-relation memory graph
Memory is organized across semantic, temporal, causal, and entity relations, with retrieval budget allocated to whichever views matter most for a given query โ avoiding wasted traversal.
๐ Accuracy and speed improve together
On the LoCoMo benchmark, Jev-Mem scores 0.777 overall, an 11% gain over the best baseline, while building memory 6.6x faster (158 seconds) and answering queries 36.7% faster (0.93 seconds).
What stands out to me is that separating control from reasoning improved accuracy and efficiency at the same time, not one at the expense of the other.
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