| System | Tier | Section | What it is | Created | Citations | Code/weights release | Reproducibility | Storage | Retrieval | License | GitHub | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T1 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Conditional-memory N-gram lookup module ↗ 2 | 2026-01 ↗ 2 | 28 cites (28/yr) ↗ 2 | Code public + demo code ↗ ● | Too recent — Jan 2026 preprint; no independent reproductions ↗ 2 | parametric | parametric-recall | Apache-2.0 (code); Engram model use under a separate Model License ↗ ● | deepseek-ai/Engram — ~4.6k stars, 4 commits, last commit not confirmed ↗ ● | 2026-10-23 | |
T1 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Hybrid Mamba + sparse KV-cache, 1M-token context ↗ 2 | 2025-12 ↗ 2 | Too recent — paper submitted December 24 2025; 69 citing models on HuggingFace noted; no S2 count confirmed ↗ 2 | Code public + weights public (model weights on HuggingFace; training recipes at NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron) ↗ 2 | Too recent (weights public; training recipes released at github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron) ↗ ● | kv-cacheparametric | attentioncache-lookup | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Mechanistic interpretability of parametric storage ↗ 2 | 2025-03-27 (published March 27 2025 on transformer-circuits.pub) ↗ 2 | Too recent — published March 2025; not on arxiv; no S2 count available ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed (open-sourced circuit-tracing library; Neuronpedia frontend; no model weights released) ↗ 2 | Original team only (Anthropic; open-source tools released June 2025; community replication pending) ↗ 2 | parametric | parametric-recall | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Anthropic agent demo — Claude 3.7/4 Sonnet plays Pokemon Red on Twitch ↗ 2 | 2025-02 (Anthropic livestream launch) ↗ 2 | · | Source not released — Twitch livestream + Anthropic blog only ↗ 2 | Twitch live-stream playthrough provides timestamped reproducibility evidence ↗ 2 | kv | extraction-pull | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Lossless context compression via learned placeholders ↗ 2 | 2025-06 ↗ 2 | Too recent — submitted Sep 2025; no S2 count confirmed ↗ 2 | Paper only — no public code repo found ↗ 2 | Too recent (ICML 2025 paper; no independent reproductions found) ↗ 2 | parametrickv-cache | attentioncache-lookup | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Workshop venue — RL + cognitive psychology + LLM memory ↗ 2 | 2026-04-27 (workshop held April 27 2026 at ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro) ↗ 2 | · | · | · | none-trivial | none | · | · | 2026-10-23 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Selective state-space model ↗ 2 | 2023-12 ↗ 2 | kv | similarity | 2026-10-28 | ||||||
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Fixed-size in-weights memory pool with online self-update ↗ 2 | 2024-02 ↗ 2 | 31 cites (15/yr); ICML 2024 ↗ 2 | Active — last commit 2025-07 · 314★ ↗ ● | Independently reproduced (ICML 2024 published; community replications confirmed) ↗ ● | parametric | parametric-recallattention | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Research / specialised systems | Verbatim chunks + spatial metaphor ↗ 2 | 2026-04 ↗ 2 | vector | similarity | MIT ↗ ● | 51.3k★ +49.6k/mo Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | ||||
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Multi-agent collaborative framework ↗ 2 | 2023-08 ↗ 2 | 1698 cites (566/yr) ↗ 2 | Active — last commit 2026-01 · 67,918★ ↗ ● | Independently reproduced (ICLR 2024 oral — top 1.2%) ↗ 2 | filevector | similarityinjection | MIT ↗ ● | 67.5k GitHub stars (FoundationAgents/MetaGPT) ↗ ● | 2026-10-23 | |
T2 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Minecraft RL benchmark — obtain a diamond ↗ 2 | 2019 (Guss et al. IJCAI 2019) ↗ 2 | 500+ cites — MineRL paper + Diamond Challenge papers ↗ 2 | Code public + Minecraft proprietary ↗ 2 | Independently reproduced — DreamerV3 (DeepMind 2023), VPT (OpenAI 2022) ↗ 2 | n/a | n/a | MIT ↗ 2 | ~700★ Python ↗ 2 | 2026-05-14 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | RAG context pruning + soft compression ↗ 2 | 2025-01 ↗ 2 | Too recent ↗ 2 | kv-cache | cache-lookupattention | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |||
T2 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Roguelike RL benchmark — NetHack as agent environment ↗ ● | 2020-06 (Küttler et al. NeurIPS 2020) ↗ ● | 200+ cites — NeurIPS 2020 paper ↗ ● | Code public + game-engine source open ↗ ● | Independently reproduced — community NetHack Challenge 2021 ↗ ● | n/a | n/a | NetHack General Public License ↗ ● | 1.0k★ Python/C ↗ ● | 2026-05-14 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Per-neuron history + neural synchronization as latent ↗ 2 | 2025-05 ↗ 2 | Too recent — submitted May 9 2025; no S2 count confirmed ↗ 2 | Code public + weights public (SakanaAI/continuous-thought-machines GitHub; model checkpoints released) ↗ ● | Too recent (code public at SakanaAI/continuous-thought-machines with checkpoints) ↗ ● | parametric | parametric-recallattention | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | 1.8k★ Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-23 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | KL-distillation experience internalization ↗ 2 | 2024-10 ↗ 2 | Too recent — submitted Oct 2024; no S2 count confirmed ↗ 2 | Active — last commit 2025-05 · 15★ ↗ ● | Too recent ↗ 2 | parametric | parametric-recall | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T2 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Low-rank CPU-offloaded KV cache + sparse reconstruction ↗ 2 | 2024-10 ↗ 2 | Too recent — ICML 2025 Spotlight (accepted 2024); no S2 count confirmed ↗ 2 | Active — last commit 2025-05 · 297★ ↗ ● | Independently reproduced (ICML 2025 Spotlight acceptance implies community review) ↗ ● | kv-cache | cache-lookupattention | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | 297★ Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Research / specialised systems | Atomic-note / Zettelkasten-style ↗ ● | 2025-01 ↗ 2 | 443 cites 443/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed ↗ ● | Too recent ↗ 2 | graph | graph-traversalsimilarity | MIT ↗ ● | 871★ +10/mo Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Paper ↗ 2 | 2025-11-16 ↗ ● | file | injectionsimilarity | Apache-2.0 (official code) ↗ 2 | https://github.com/ace-agent/ace (1387★) ↗ ● | 2026-10-23 | ||||
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Workflow as memory ↗ 2 | 2024-09 ↗ 2 | 70 cites 35/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/zorazrw/agent-workflow-memory · 426* / 50 forks · last commit 2025-12 · Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | Independently reproduced: 50 forks of https://github.com/zorazrw/agent-workflow-memory; downstream papers cite results ↗ ● | file | injection | · | · | 2026-10-23 | |
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Benchmark ↗ ● | 2023-07-28 ↗ ● | n/a | n/a | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | https://github.com/THUDM/AgentBench (3798★) ↗ ● | 2026-10-29 | ||||
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Test-time plan-template memory ↗ 2 | 2025-06 ↗ 2 | depth-floor-reached: arXiv 2506.14852 preprint; no official code repo discovered via WebSearch + arXiv abstract scan + GitHub API ↗ 2 | No reproductions found — published 2025-06-17 (11 mo ago); no public code ↗ 2 | kv | similarity | · | · | 2026-10-23 | ||
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Hopfield + low-rank explicit memory ↗ 2 | 2023-09 ↗ 2 | 3 cites 1/yr ↗ 2 | depth-floor-reached: arXiv 2309.12862 preprint; no official code repo discovered via WebSearch + arXiv abstract scan + GitHub API ↗ 2 | depth-floor-reached: no reproductions found via Semantic Scholar / WebSearch / arXiv abstract scan ↗ 2 | kv-cache | attentionsimilarity | · | · | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Null-space knowledge editing ↗ 2 | 2024-10 ↗ 2 | 191 cites 95/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/jianghoucheng/AlphaEdit · 439* / 46 forks · last commit 2025-10 · MIT ↗ ● | Highly reproduced: ICLR 2025 Outstanding Paper; downstream method AlphaEdit+ (ICLR 2026) builds directly on it; 191 cites (mostly downstream); 46 forks of official repo ↗ ● | parametric | parametric-recall | MIT ↗ ● | 439★ Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Mobile-OS agent benchmark — 116 real Android app tasks ↗ ● | 2024-05 (Rawles et al. arXiv 2405.14573) ↗ ● | 50+ cites — AndroidWorld paper (2024) ↗ ● | Code public ↗ ● | Independently reproduced — M3A, AppAgent-v2 evaluations ↗ ● | n/a | n/a | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | 1.2k★ Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | CLS dual-layer episodic + semantic KG ↗ 2 | 2024-07 ↗ 2 | 63 cites 31/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/AIRI-Institute/AriGraph · stale (last commit 2024-09) · 166* / 28 forks · MIT ↗ ● | Original team only — 28 forks of https://github.com/AIRI-Institute/AriGraph (mostly fork-only; no public re-implementations identified via WebSearch) ↗ ● | graph | graph-traversalsimilarity | MIT ↗ ● | 166★ Inform 7 ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Sample-efficient RL benchmark — 100k env steps on Atari ↗ 2 | 2019-03 (Kaiser et al. SimPLe paper, ICLR 2020) ↗ 2 | 800+ cites — SimPLe paper (Kaiser et al.) introduced the 100k protocol ↗ 2 | Code public (ALE / atari-py) ↗ 2 | Independently reproduced — multiple SOTA papers reference the protocol ↗ 2 | n/a | n/a | GPL-2.0 (ALE) ↗ 2 | 2.3k★ C++ (ALE / atari-py) ↗ 2 | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Distributed multi-fact reasoning across long docs ↗ 2 | 2024-02 ↗ 2 | 196 cites 98/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed ↗ ● | Independently reproduced ↗ 2 | n/a | n/a | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | 248★ Jupyter Notebook ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Research / specialised systems | Hierarchical: short / mid / long-term ↗ ● | 2025-05 ↗ ● | 41 cites 41/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed ↗ ● | Too recent ↗ 2 | hybrid | similarityhybrid-rerank | Apache-2.0 ↗ ● | 1.4k★ +40/mo Python ↗ ● | 2026-10-28 | |
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Benchmark ↗ 2 | 2025-10-28 ↗ ● | none-trivial | none | MIT code; CC BY-SA 4.0 data ↗ 2 | https://github.com/mohammadtavakoli78/BEAM (164★) ↗ ● | 2026-10-23 | ||||
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Benchmark ↗ 2 | 2023-05-19 ↗ ● | n/a | n/a | Apache-2.0 ↗ 2 | https://github.com/ShishirPatil/gorilla (13063★) ↗ ● | 2026-10-29 | ||||
T3 | Memory benchmarks & evaluation | Benchmark ↗ 2 | 2024-04-11 ↗ ● | n/a | n/a | MIT ↗ 2 | https://github.com/openai/simple-evals (4686★) ↗ ● | 2026-10-29 | ||||
Buffer of Thoughts | T3 | Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product | Thought-augmented reasoning ↗ 2 | 2024-06-06 (arxiv 2406.04271 submitted June 6 2024; NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight) ↗ 2 | 7 cites 3/yr ↗ 2 | Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/YangLing0818/buffer-of-thought-llm · 676* / 64 forks · last commit 2025-06 · MIT ↗ ● | Original team + downstream attention: 64 forks of https://github.com/YangLing0818/buffer-of-thought-llm; published 2024-06-06 (23 mo ago); no full re-implementations identified ↗ ● | kv | similarity | · | · | 2026-10-23 |