The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents

arXiv:2609.01852 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Comments: Preprint. Under review at a NeurIPS 2026 workshop. 14 pages, 7 figures, 11 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 34× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent Memory — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• External Validation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Sycophancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Thinking mode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Positional Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Self-Consistency Falls Short! The Adverse Effects of Positional Bias on Long-Context Problems
• Benchmarking Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Lost in the Evidence? Reproducing Document Position and Context Size Effects in RAG
• Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
• Entity-Based Knowledge Conflicts in Question Answering
• How does Misinformation Affect Large Language Model Behaviors and Preferences?
• Reliable Post-Retrieval Assembly for Agent Memory: Separating Evidence Extraction from Policy Execution
• ConflictBank: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Influence of Knowledge Conflicts in LLM
• Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts

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