LLM-MemCluster: Empowering Large Language Models with Dynamic Memory for Text Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15424v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:22:08 GMT
• Title: LLM-MemCluster: Empowering Large Language Models with Dynamic Memory for Text Clustering
• Authors: Yuanjie Zhu, Liangwei Yang, Ke Xu, Weizhi Zhang, Zihe Song, Jindong Wang, Philip S. Yu,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping unsupervised learning by offering an unprecedented ability to perform text clustering.<n>Existing methods often rely on complex pipelines with external modules, sacrificing a truly end-to-end approach.<n>We introduce LLM-MemCluster, a novel framework that reconceptualizes clustering as a fully LLM-native task.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping unsupervised learning by offering an unprecedented ability to perform text clustering based on their deep semantic understanding. However, their direct application is fundamentally limited by a lack of stateful memory for iterative refinement and the difficulty of managing cluster granularity. As a result, existing methods often rely on complex pipelines with external modules, sacrificing a truly end-to-end approach. We introduce LLM-MemCluster, a novel framework that reconceptualizes clustering as a fully LLM-native task. It leverages a Dynamic Memory to instill state awareness and a Dual-Prompt Strategy to enable the model to reason about and determine the number of clusters. Evaluated on several benchmark datasets, our tuning-free framework significantly and consistently outperforms strong baselines. LLM-MemCluster presents an effective, interpretable, and truly end-to-end paradigm for LLM-based text clustering.

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