AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications
Yujie Zhao, Boqin Yuan, Junbo Huang, Haocheng Yuan, Zhongming Yu, Haozhou Xu, Lanxiang Hu, Abhilash Shankarampeta, Zimeng Huang, Wentao Ni, Yuandong Tian, Jishen Zhao
Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as autonomous agents in complex, long-horizon applications, where effective memory is critical for sustained performance. Yet existing memory benchmarks are largely dialogue-centric, while real agent memory consists of continuous agent-environment interaction trajectories composed of states, actions, observations, and tool outputs. To address this gap, we introduce AMA-Bench ( A gent M emory with A ny length), a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon memory in realistic agentic settings. AMA-Bench combines real-world agent trajectories from representative applications with expert-curated QA, as well as synthetic trajectories that scale to arbitrary horizons with rule-based QA. Our study shows that existing memory systems underperform because they fail to capture causal and objective information and rely heavily on lossy similarity-based retrieval. We further propose AMA-Agent , a memory system based on causality-graph construction and tool-augmented retrieval. AMA-Agent achieves 57.22% accuracy on AMA-Bench, outperforming the strongest baseline by 11.16% . Resources are available at: https://ama-bench.github.io/ .
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