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LMEB: Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark
Authors
Xinping Zhao, Xinshuo Hu, Jiaxin Xu, Danyu Tang, Xin Zhang, Mengjia Zhou, Yan Zhong, Yao Zhou, Zifei Shan, Meishan Zhang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang
Abstract
Memory embeddings are crucial for memory-augmented systems, such as OpenClaw, but their evaluation is underexplored in current text embedding benchmarks, which narrowly focus on traditional passage retrieval and fail to assess models' ability to handle long-horizon memory retrieval tasks involving fragmented, context-dependent, and temporally distant information. To address this, we introduce the Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark (LMEB), a comprehensive framework that evaluates embedding models' capabilities in handling complex, long-horizon memory retrieval tasks. LMEB spans 22 datasets and 193 zero-shot retrieval tasks across 4 memory types: episodic, dialogue, semantic, and procedural, with both AI-generated and human-annotated data. These memory types differ in terms of level of abstraction and temporal dependency, capturing distinct aspects of memory retrieval that reflect the diverse challenges of the real world. We evaluate 15 widely used embedding models, ranging from hundreds of millions to ten billion parameters. The results reveal that (1) LMEB provides a reasonable level of difficulty; (2) Larger models do not always perform better; (3) LMEB and MTEB exhibit orthogonality. This suggests that the field has yet to converge on a universal model capable of excelling across all memory retrieval tasks, and that performance in traditional passage retrieval may not generalize to long-horizon memory retrieval. In summary, by providing a standardized and reproducible evaluation framework, LMEB fills a crucial gap in memory embedding evaluation, driving further advancements in text embedding for handling long-term, context-dependent memory retrieval. LMEB is available at https://github.com/KaLM-Embedding/LMEB.
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