A Recall Score Is Not a Use Forecast: What Factual-Memory Benchmarks Predict About Whether a Conversational Memory System Uses What It Stores, Why the Published Transfer Failure Runs Through the Harness and the Write Policy, and the Within-Harness Test That Would Settle It

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Recall Score Is Not a Use Forecast: What Factual-Memory Benchmarks Predict About Whether a Conversational Memory System Uses What It Stores, Why the Published Transfer Failure Runs Through the Harness and the Write Policy, and the Within-Harness Test That Would Settle It [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23899944

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@misc{lor1812026,
  title        = {A Recall Score Is Not a Use Forecast: What Factual-Memory Benchmarks Predict About Whether a Conversational Memory System Uses What It Stores, Why the Published Transfer Failure Runs Through the Harness and the Write Policy, and the Within-Harness Test That Would Settle It},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23899944},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/181},
  keywords     = {long-term memory, conversational agents, memory utilization, LoCoMo, LongMemEval, benchmark validity, evaluation harness, retrieval-augmented generation},
  note         = {LOR-00181}
}

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