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# From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space

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**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05794  

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## Overview

arXiv:2607.05794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term user memory is essential for personalized conversational agents, yet many memory systems still expose memory through passive retrieval interfaces, making the model a consumer of pre-selected evidence. We introduce NapMem, a framework for learning to use long-term user memory as a structured action space rather than passively retrieved context. NapMem organizes user history into a linked multi-granularity memory pyramid, where raw conversa

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