This work proposes Akashic, a low-overhead memory system built around MemAttention, which organizes context into bounded chunks and models semantic relationships across chunks, preserving cross-chunk evidence without repeatedly rewriting the full history.
Abstract
Recent LLM-based agent systems continuously accumulate context across multi-turn interactions, tool invocations, and cross-session workflows. Replaying the full history for every request quickly becomes impractical: long contexts increase prefill cost, may exceed context limits, and often bury task-relevant evidence in irrelevant content, degrading both serving efficiency and output quality. We propose Akashic, a low-overhead memory system built around MemAttention, which organizes context into bounded chunks and models semantic relationships across chunks, preserving cross-chunk evidence without repeatedly rewriting the full history. Akashic further applies hardware-software co-designed memory placement to co-locate likely co-retrieved chunks, reducing retrieval fragmentation and I/O overhead. Across four representative workloads and three model sizes, Akashic improves task accuracy by up to 10.2 points, throughput by up to 1.21x, and sustainable request rate by up to 1.88x over strong prior memory baselines.
These results establish semantic prompt structure as a robust signal for KV-cache management while clarifying how it should be combined with attention-based importance.
Enterprise repositories are large, heteroge- neous, and continuously updated, making re- trieval difficult when efficient access, source- faithful evidence, and cross-query adaptation must be supported together. Enterprise mem- ory extends retrieval beyond the model con- text, but existing systems do not jointly address collection-specific hierarchy construction, low- cost routing, detailed evidence loading, and workload-aware memory updates at this scale. We introduce MEMONDEMAND, short for On- Demand Memory, a memory management sys- tem with three coordinated mechanisms: a dy- namic multi-level hierarchy that determines the abstraction structure and depth for each col- lection, dual memory at every hierarchy level that separates distilled routing from detailed evidence, and on-demand memory promotion that updates node priority under a bounded active-state budget. On EnterpriseRAG-Bench, MEMONDEMAND outperforms the strongest published LB#1 result at every evaluated scale from 10M tokens through the complete 618M- token collection, with gains of 12.23% at 10M and 4.66% at 618M. Results on FinanceBench, HotpotQA, and FRAMES further show strong performance across financial, multi-hop, and fact-retrieval settings. Together, these results establish MEMONDEMAND as an accurate, ef- ficient, and scalable memory solution for very large enterprise repositories across data scales, domains, and evidence requirements. Our code is available at https://github.com/ xfab-xinyuansong/MemOnDemand.git.
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