PlugMem: A Task-Agnostic Plugin Memory Module for LLM Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03296v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:55:38 GMT
• Title: PlugMem: A Task-Agnostic Plugin Memory Module for LLM Agents
• Abstract summary: We propose PlugMem, a task-agnostic memory module that can be attached to arbitrary LLM agents without task-specific redesign.<n>Motivated by the fact that decision-relevant information is concentrated as abstract knowledge rather than raw experience, we draw on cognitive science to structure episodic memories into a compact, knowledge-centric memory graph.<n>We evaluate PlugMem unchanged across three benchmarks (long-horizon conversational question answering, multi-hop knowledge retrieval, and web agent tasks)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Long-term memory is essential for large language model (LLM) agents operating in complex environments, yet existing memory designs are either task-specific and non-transferable, or task-agnostic but less effective due to low task-relevance and context explosion from raw memory retrieval. We propose PlugMem, a task-agnostic plugin memory module that can be attached to arbitrary LLM agents without task-specific redesign. Motivated by the fact that decision-relevant information is concentrated as abstract knowledge rather than raw experience, we draw on cognitive science to structure episodic memories into a compact, extensible knowledge-centric memory graph that explicitly represents propositional and prescriptive knowledge. This representation enables efficient memory retrieval and reasoning over task-relevant knowledge, rather than verbose raw trajectories, and departs from other graph-based methods like GraphRAG by treating knowledge as the unit of memory access and organization instead of entities or text chunks. We evaluate PlugMem unchanged across three heterogeneous benchmarks (long-horizon conversational question answering, multi-hop knowledge retrieval, and web agent tasks). The results show that PlugMem consistently outperforms task-agnostic baselines and exceeds task-specific memory designs, while also achieving the highest information density under a unified information-theoretic analysis. Code and data are available at https://github.com/TIMAN-group/PlugMem.

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