Catalog Systems Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product Human-Like Remembering and Forgetting

Human-Like Remembering and Forgetting

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3765766.3765803

Re-implements ACT-R's retrieval probability model — temporal decay, prior-access frequency, stochastic noise — as scoring on top of a vector store. Spreading activation over semantic similarity adds associative recall. Forgetting becomes an explicit function of recency and use-count, not eviction heuristics.

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At a glance

Type
ACT-R Base-Level Activation over vector store vendor fix
Tier
T3
Section
Recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product
Created
2025-11-10 (ACM HAI 2025; published online November 10 2025) vendor fix
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS fix
License
not applicable — not OSS fix
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
Pricing
not applicable — not commercial fix
Funding
not applicable — not commercial fix
Freshness
2026-10-28 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix

Memory taxonomy

storage
vector
retrieval
similarity
persistence
long-term
update
consolidation
unit
chunk
governance
inspectable
conflict
llm-arbitrate

When to use

Optimised for: not applicable - research paper

Anti-fit: not applicable - research paper

Pros & cons

Pros

Cognitive-psychology-grounded memory model that matches human recall / forgetting curves.

Cons

Descriptive model rather than production system; benchmark-only.

Claims & capabilities

Evaluated on social-robot conversation. ACM HAI 2025.

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — research paper
Backend storage
not applicable — research paper
Deployment
not applicable — not a deployable product
Embedding model
not applicable — research paper
Multi-tenancy
not applicable — research paper
MCP
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
A2A
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
OpenTelemetry
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product

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Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)

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