Meta-Memory: Retrieving and Integrating Semantic-Spatial Memories for Robot Spatial Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20754v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:22:52 GMT
• Title: Meta-Memory: Retrieving and Integrating Semantic-Spatial Memories for Robot Spatial Reasoning
• Authors: Yufan Mao, Hanjing Ye, Wenlong Dong, Chengjie Zhang, Hong Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We propose Meta-Memory, a large language model (LLM)-driven agent that constructs a high-density memory representation of the environment.<n>The key innovation of Meta-Memory lies in its capacity to retrieve and integrate relevant memories through joint reasoning over semantic and spatial modalities.<n> Experimental results show that Meta-Memory significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both the SpaceLocQA and the public NaVQA benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Navigating complex environments requires robots to effectively store observations as memories and leverage them to answer human queries about spatial locations, which is a critical yet underexplored research challenge. While prior work has made progress in constructing robotic memory, few have addressed the principled mechanisms needed for efficient memory retrieval and integration. To bridge this gap, we propose Meta-Memory, a large language model (LLM)-driven agent that constructs a high-density memory representation of the environment. The key innovation of Meta-Memory lies in its capacity to retrieve and integrate relevant memories through joint reasoning over semantic and spatial modalities in response to natural language location queries, thereby empowering robots with robust and accurate spatial reasoning capabilities. To evaluate its performance, we introduce SpaceLocQA, a large-scale dataset encompassing diverse real-world spatial question-answering scenarios. Experimental results show that Meta-Memory significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both the SpaceLocQA and the public NaVQA benchmarks. Furthermore, we successfully deployed Meta-Memory on real-world robotic platforms, demonstrating its practical utility in complex environments. Project page: https://itsbaymax.github.io/meta-memory.github.io/ .

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