MemTool: Optimizing Short-Term Memory Management for Dynamic Tool Retrieval and Invocation in LLM Agent Multi-turn Conversations.

@inproceedings{lumer-2026-memtool, author = {Elias Lumer and Anmol Gulati and Vamse Kumar Subbiah and Pradeep Honaganahalli Basavaraju and James A. Burke}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{MemTool: Optimizing Short-Term Memory Management for Dynamic Tool Retrieval and Invocation in LLM Agent Multi-turn Conversations}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16484}, pages = {237--253}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_15}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_15} }