Bookkeeping, Composition, or Unreachable Gold? Reading MemoryAgentBench's Conflict-Resolution Scores Against a Frozen Last-Write Resolver

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.09193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MemoryAgentBench's Conflict Resolution split is read as measuring "selective forgetting". We execute the benchmark's own rule - the newest statement about a fact wins - as a zero-learning resolver frozen on one of the four fact lists. Under the official metric the rule answers 80.25% of the questions (74.5% on the three held-out lists). Of the rest, 67 items have a released gold that the last-write graph cannot reach but overwritten statements would ("The capital of India is New Delhi." superseded by "The capital of India is Grosseto."; gold New Delhi); such items are a third of the multi-hop questions at 262K. Two long-context models and our pre-registered approximate re-implementation of the benchmark's BM25 agent, one retained run per it