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arXiv2026

Graph-Based Personalized Memory for LLM Agents: Representation, Evolution, Retrieval, and Evaluation

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are evolving from single-session tools toward long-term personal assistants that must adapt to individual users across tasks, contexts, and interactions. This shift makes memory a core requirement for personalization, since user preferences, goals, constraints, relationships, and past experiences are accumulated gradually and often change over time. Graph-based personalized memory provides a structured way to model such user information through explicit relations, temporal context, and evidence links. Such representations can model not only what an agent remembers about a user but also how memories are connected, revised, and retrieved to support personalized decisions. However, existing work remains fragmented across personalized agents and generic graph memory frameworks, making it difficult to understand the design space as a whole. This survey develops a lifecycle-oriented view of graph-based personalized memory for LLM agents. We organize existing studies around memory representation, memory evolution, memory retrieval, and memory evaluation. We further compare key design choices, discuss current evaluation practices, and open challenges in building reliable long-term personalized agents. This survey aims to clarify how graph-based memory can support adaptive, controllable, and user-centric LLM agents.

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arXiv2026

M2LG-DG: A Multi-modal Local-Global Domain Generalization Framework for Cross-site Major Depressive Disorder Classification

Classification models based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) often show lower performance at imaging sites not included during model development, which can limit their use in clinical settings. Domain generalization (DG) addresses this issue by learning representations from source sites that remain effective for unseen target sites. However, existing DG approaches for psychiatric disorder classification commonly rely on a single imaging modality and may not fully account for site-specific acquisition effects on the learned representation space. Subjects scanned at the same site share scanner hardware, acquisition settings, and preprocessing characteristics, which can cause representations to reflect acquisition conditions rather than diagnostic information. In this work, we present M2LG-DG, a source-only multimodal local-global framework for cross-site major depressive disorder (MDD) classification. The framework employs a dual-stream rs-fMRI encoder, where the global pathway models inter-regional dependencies through self-attention and the local pathway performs graph-constrained aggregation over functional connectivity-derived brain graphs. Imaging and non-imaging representations are decomposed into shared and private components and integrated through bidirectional cross-attention with a learned modality gate. A cross-site supervised contrastive objective forms positive pairs from same-class subjects acquired at different source sites, encouraging the fused representation to preserve diagnostic information across acquisition domains. On four held-out REST-meta-MDD sites, M2LG-DG achieves an AUC of 69.48% and exceeds the closest comparison method by 2.18 percentage points. Experiments on the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) dataset further support its applicability to other psychiatric neuroimaging classification tasks.

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