Mem2ActBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Utilization in Task-Oriented Autonomous Agents
Yiting Shen, Kun Li, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu
Abstract
Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly deployed for complex, toolbased tasks where long-term memory is critical to driving actions. Existing benchmarks, however, primarily test a angent's ability to passively retrieve isolated facts in response to explicit questions. They fail to evaluate the more crucial capability of actively applying memory to execute tasks. To address this gap, we introduce MEM2ACTBENCH, a benchmark for evaluating whether agents can proactively leverage long-term memory to execute tool-based actions by selecting appropriate tools and grounding their parameters. The benchmark simulates persistent assistant usage, where users mention the same topic across long, interrupted interactions and expect previously established preferences and task states to be implicitly applied. We build the dataset with an automated pipeline that merges heterogeneous sources (ToolACE, BFCL, Oasst1), resolves conflicts via consistency modeling, and synthesizes 2,029 sessions with 12 user-assistant-tool turns on average. From these memory chains, a reverse-generation method produces 400 tooluse tasks, with human evaluation confirming 91.3% are strongly memory-dependent. Experiments on seven memory frameworks show that current systems remain inadequate at actively utilizing memory for parameter grounding, highlighting the need for more effective approaches to evaluate and improve memory application in task execution. Code and data are available at https://anonymous.4open. science/r/Mem2ActBench-29AC/ . Output (Tool Call) search_flights (destination="NYC", max_price=500, non_stop=True, time="next week")
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