Summary
According to a post on X by @SciFi, a paper by Zhengye Bao and co-authors compared Raw-RAG, a setup using simple dense retrieval and reranking over raw chat history, with agentic memory systems. The tests covered LoCoMo, LongMemEval, MEME and MemoryAgentBench. Raw-RAG ranked first in six of seven benchmark-model settings, by margins of 0.13 to 5.53 points, which the authors attribute mainly to raw history covering more of the evidence a model needs. The snippet is cut off before the full recommendation is stated.
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What happened
Zhengye Bao and co-authors tested Raw-RAG, simple dense retrieval and reranking over raw chat history, against agentic memory systems on LoCoMo, LongMemEval, MEME and MemoryAgentBench. It ranked first in six of seven benchmark-model settings, by 0.13 to 5.53 points, mainly because raw history covers more of the...
Why it matters
The result suggests that more complex agentic memory does not always beat a simple retrieval baseline on long conversations. Teams building chat assistants or memory features may want to test naive RAG before adding more architecture. The authors argue it should be a required baseline, so watch whether other researchers reproduce these results on the same benchmarks.
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