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About this paper

Chuanrui Hu, Tong Li, Xingze Gao, Hongda Chen, Yi Bai, Dannong Xu, Tianwei Lin, Xiaohong Li and 3 more

EverMemBench evaluates memory in simulated workplace collaboration across five projects. It tests fact recall, applying remembered rules, and modeling people’s styles, skills, and roles across group chats. Gemini-3-Flash answers 26.51% of multi-hop questions with full context and 88.37% with gold evidence, while LLaMA-4-Scout reaches 37.35% with oracle evidence, showing that evidence access and reasoning remain challenges in this benchmark.

Key insights

  • Simply scaling context length or improving similarity-based retrieval is insufficient; multi-party attribution, temporal revision, and inferential relevance introduce structural challenges that current memory paradigms struggle to address.
  • LLMs and memory systems exhibit a 'multi-hop reasoning collapse' when evidence is fragmented across speakers and groups, and struggle significantly with temporal reasoning involving event lifecycles and revisions.
  • Retrieval-centric memory systems are limited in capturing emergent, implicit persona traits like communication style, which are never explicitly stated and require aggregating distributed behavioral signals over long interaction histories.

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