CALM: Conflict-Aware Lifecycle Memory Governance for Long-Horizon Language Agents
arXiv:2610.38573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A memory can be outdated for present-day reasoning yet indispensable for reconstructing the past. Relevance-based retrieval overlooks this tension: semantic relevance, evidence-grounded validity, and query-specific eligibility are distinct. We propose CALM, a conflict-aware lifecycle memory governance framework that decouples persistent memory preservation from query-time admission. CALM converts heterogeneous records into evidence-grounded memory…