A-MBER: Affective Memory Benchmark for Emotion Recognition

AI assistants that interact with users over time need to interpret the user's current emotional state in order to respond appropriately and personally. However, this capability remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing emotion datasets mainly assess local or instantaneous affect, while long-term memory benchmarks focus largely on factual recall, temporal consistency, or knowledge updating. As a result, current resources provide limited support for testing whether a model can use remembered interaction history to interpret a user's present affective state. We introduce A-MBER, an Affective Memory Benchmark for Emotion Recognition, to evaluate this capability. A-MBER focuses on present affective interpretation grounded in remembered multi-session interaction history. Given an interaction trajectory and a designated anchor turn, a model must infer the user's current affective state, identify historically relevant evidence, and justify its interpretation in a grounded way. The benchmark is constructed through a staged pipeline with explicit intermediate representations, including long-horizon planning, conversation generation, annotation, question construction, and final packaging. It supports judgment, retrieval, and explanation tasks, together with robustness settings such as modality degradation and insufficient-evidence conditions. Experiments compare local-context, long-context, retrieved-memory, structured-memory, and gold-evidence conditions within a unified framework. Results show that A-MBER is especially discriminative on the subsets it is designed to stress, including long-range implicit affect, high-dependency memory levels, trajectory-based reasoning, and adversarial settings. These findings suggest that memory supports affective interpretation not simply by providing more history, but by enabling more selective, grounded, and context-sensitive use of past interaction

Memory Bear AI A Breakthrough from Memory to Cognition Toward Artificial General Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) face inherent limitations in memory, including restricted context windows, long-term knowledge forgetting, redundant information accumulation, and hallucination generation. These issues severely constrain sustained dialogue and personalized services. This paper proposes the Memory Bear system, which constructs a human-like memory architecture grounded in cognitive science principles. By integrating multimodal information perception, dynamic memory maintenance, and adaptive cognitive services, Memory Bear achieves a full-chain reconstruction of LLM memory mechanisms. Across domains such as healthcare, enterprise operations, and education, Memory Bear demonstrates substantial engineering innovation and performance breakthroughs. It significantly improves knowledge fidelity and retrieval efficiency in long-term conversations, reduces hallucination rates, and enhances contextual adaptability and reasoning capability through memory-cognition integration. Experimental results show that, compared with existing solutions (e.g., Mem0, MemGPT, Graphiti), Memory Bear outperforms them across key metrics, including accuracy, token efficiency, and response latency. This marks a crucial step forward in advancing AI from "memory" to "cognition".