Self-Evolving LLM Memory Extraction Across Heterogeneous Tasks

arXiv:2604.11610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-based assistants become persistent and personalized, they must extract and retain useful information from past conversations as memory. However, the types of information worth remembering vary considerably across tasks. We formalize the extit{heterogeneous memory extraction} task and introduce extbf{BEHEMOTH}, a benchmark that repurposes 18 existing datasets spanning personalization, problem-solving, and agentic tasks, using a downstream utility-driven metric for systematic evaluation. Our empirical analysis confirms that no single static extraction prompt dominates across all task categories, and that existing self-evolving prompt optimization frameworks, originally designed for homogeneous distributions, degrade when training tasks are heterogeneous. To address this, we propose extbf{CluE}, a cluster-based self-evolving strategy that groups training examples into clusters by extraction scenarios, analyzes each cluster independently, and synthesizes cross-cluster insights to update the extraction prompt. Experiments on BEHEMOTH show that CluE generalizes effectively across heterogeneous tasks (+9.04% relative gain), consistently outperforming prior self-evolving frameworks.

Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-04-14