BrainCore Memory Benchmark (MVP)
A lightweight, extensible harness for evaluating long-term memory systems in LLM-based agents.
Status: MVP — not a SOTA leaderboard. Intended for rapid iteration and community extension.
Goals
- Retrieval accuracy — Can the memory system recall the right fact when queried?
- Temporal consistency — Does it respect the order and timing of events?
- Contradiction handling — Can it resolve or flag updated / retracted facts?
- Cost & latency — How expensive (time + storage) is the memory layer?
Non-Goals
- We do not claim these tasks are exhaustive.
- We do not provide a SOTA ranking.
- We do not cover multi-modal or external-tool memory yet.
Repo Structure
braincore-memory-benchmark/
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── data/
│ └── synthetic_benchmark.jsonl # 100 public-safe synthetic examples
├── src/
│ ├── metrics.py # Scoring primitives
│ ├── baseline_adapter.py # Keyword-based baseline
│ └── evaluator.py # Main harness
├── results/
│ └── results_template.md # Copy this to report your run
Quick Start
pip install -r requirements.txt
python src/evaluator.py --adapter src.baseline_adapter --dataset data/synthetic_benchmark.jsonl --output results/my_run.json
Extending the Harness
We designed the JSONL schema and adapter interface so future datasets (LongMemEval, LoCoMo, MemoryAgentBench, AMA-Bench) can be dropped in with minimal changes.
Adapter Interface
Your adapter must expose:
class MemoryAdapter:
def ingest(self, raw_memories: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Store a batch of memory items."""
...
def retrieve(self, query: str, top_k: int = 1) -> list[dict]:
"""Return ranked memory items for a query."""
...
def storage_bytes(self) -> int:
"""Report current on-disk / in-memory footprint."""
...
The evaluator calls ingest once per session, then retrieve per test case.
Dataset Schema (synthetic_benchmark.jsonl)
Each line is a JSON object with:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
session_id |
str | Group of memories belonging to one synthetic agent session |
memories |
list[dict] | Chronological facts / events |
queries |
list[dict] | Questions asked after all memories are ingested |
Query dict:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
query_id |
str | Unique ID |
query_text |
str | Natural-language question |
expected_answer |
str | Ground-truth answer |
query_type |
str | retrieval | temporal | contradiction |
required_memory_ids |
list[str] | Which memory item(s) must be used |
Metrics
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
exact_match |
Case-insensitive, stripped string equality |
semantic_placeholder_score |
Cosine similarity of sentence embeddings (fallback) |
temporal_order_score |
Fraction of temporal queries where returned memories are in correct time order |
contradiction_resolution_score |
Fraction of contradiction queries where the latest (revised) fact is returned |
latency_ms |
Mean wall-clock time for retrieve() |
storage_bytes |
Bytes reported by adapter.storage_bytes() |
License
Synthetic data and code are released under the MIT license.
Part of BrainCore Collective
This asset is part of BrainCore Collective, a public Hugging Face collection of datasets, starter kits, and Spaces for practical agent memory, AI operations, and media automation workflows.
- Agent Memory Research Corpus — Canonical corpus for agent-memory papers, systems, benchmarks, and implementation patterns.
- Memory Explorer Space — Interactive browser for the agent-memory research corpus.
- BrainCore Memory Benchmark — Synthetic benchmark for retrieval, temporal consistency, contradiction handling, latency, and storage cost.
- BrainCore pgvector Starter — Postgres/pgvector memory starter with a runnable Gradio landing page and FastAPI code.
- LoRA Caption Quality Checker — CPU-only Gradio utility for checking LoRA caption dataset quality before training.