MemMA: Coordinating the Memory Cycle through Multi-Agent Reasoning and In-Situ Self-Evolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18718v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:15:59 GMT
• Title: MemMA: Coordinating the Memory Cycle through Multi-Agent Reasoning and In-Situ Self-Evolution
• Abstract summary: Memory-augmented LLM agents maintain external memory banks to support long-horizon interaction.<n>MemMA is a plug-and-play multi-agent framework that coordinates the memory cycle along both the forward and backward paths.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Memory-augmented LLM agents maintain external memory banks to support long-horizon interaction, yet most existing systems treat construction, retrieval, and utilization as isolated subroutines. This creates two coupled challenges: strategic blindness on the forward path of the memory cycle, where construction and retrieval are driven by local heuristics rather than explicit strategic reasoning, and sparse, delayed supervision on the backward path, where downstream failures rarely translate into direct repairs of the memory bank. To address these challenges, we propose MemMA, a plug-and-play multi-agent framework that coordinates the memory cycle along both the forward and backward paths. On the forward path, a Meta-Thinker produces structured guidance that steers a Memory Manager during construction and directs a Query Reasoner during iterative retrieval. On the backward path, MemMA introduces in-situ self-evolving memory construction, which synthesizes probe QA pairs, verifies the current memory, and converts failures into repair actions before the memory is finalized. Extensive experiments on LoCoMo show that MemMA consistently outperforms existing baselines across multiple LLM backbones and improves three different storage backends in a plug-and-play manner. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/ventr1c/memma.

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