GroupMemBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Memory in Multi-Party Conversations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14498v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 07:38:29 GMT
• Title: GroupMemBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Memory in Multi-Party Conversations
• Abstract summary: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly serve as personal assistants and workplace collaborators.<n>Existing memory systems and benchmarks are built around the dyadic, single-user setup.<n>We introduce GroupMemBench, a benchmark that exposes three properties of group memory.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly serve as personal assistants and workplace collaborators, where their utility depends on memory systems that extract, retrieve, and apply information across long-running conversations. However, both existing memory systems and benchmarks are built around the dyadic, single-user setup, even though real deployments routinely span groups and channels with multiple users interacting with the agent and with each other. This mismatch leaves three properties of group memory unmeasured: (i) group dynamics that go beyond concatenated one-on-one chats, (ii) speaker-grounded belief tracking, where the per-user memory modeling is needed, and (iii) audience-adapted language, where Theory-of-Mind shifts produce role-specific vocabulary. We introduce GroupMemBench, a benchmark that exposes all three. A graph-grounded synthesis pipeline produces multi-party conversations with controllable reply structure and conditions each message on per-user personas and target audiences. An adversarial query pipeline then binds every question to a specific asker across six categories, spanning multi-hop reasoning, knowledge update, term ambiguity, user-implicit reasoning, temporal reasoning, and abstention, and iteratively searches challenging, realistic queries that reflect comprehensive memory capability. Benchmarking leading memory systems exposes a sharp collapse: the strongest one reaches only 46.0% average accuracy, with knowledge update at 27.1% and term ambiguity at 37.7%, while a simple BM25 baseline matches or exceeds most agent memory systems. This indicates current memory ingestion erases the structural and lexical features group memory depends on, leaving multi-user memory far from solved.

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