arXiv cs.CLSeptember 22, 2026
Memory That Looks Forward: A Zero-Inference Prospective Term for Personal Memory Retrieval
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arXiv:2609.22091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval over a personal memory store is retrospective: it surfaces what resembles the query, and it is blind to what the user has committed to do. We describe a prospective term for memory retrieval that costs no inference at query time. Commitments are held in an explicit ledger as dated or trigger-conditioned entries; memory items linked to a firing entry receive a salience boost, blended multiplicatively into embedding-based retrieval so that