Metis: The First Memory Foundation Model Architecture

MemTensor · hf · 2026-07-31

While current AI agents rely on external modules for memory, this paper proposes the concept of Memory Foundation Models to internalize native memory capabilities. Key innovations include:

The authors introduce Metis, the first prototype. It compresses historical information into the model, accessed via memory attention. Metis's online memory maintenance is gradient-free, requiring only a forward pass. During inference, model weights are frozen, and memory states are transformed autonomously via standard forward computation.

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