@mastra/longmemeval

LongMemEval Benchmark for Mastra

This package implements the LongMemEval benchmark (+Github) for testing Mastra's long-term memory capabilities.

About LongMemEval

LongMemEval is a comprehensive benchmark designed by researchers to evaluate the long-term memory capabilities of chat assistants. It was introduced in the paper:

"LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory"
Di Wu, Hongwei Wang, Wenhao Yu, Yuwei Zhang, Kai-Wei Chang, Dong Yu (ICLR 2025)
📄 Paper | 🌐 Website | 🤗 Dataset

What LongMemEval Tests

The benchmark evaluates five core long-term memory abilities through 500 meticulously curated questions:

• Information Extraction - Recalling specific information from extensive interactive histories
• Multi-Session Reasoning - Synthesizing information across multiple history sessions
• Knowledge Updates - Handling information that changes over time
• Temporal Reasoning - Understanding time-based relationships in conversations
• Abstention - Recognizing when information is not available

Why This Matters

Current LLMs show a 30-60% performance drop when tested on LongMemEval, revealing significant challenges in maintaining coherent long-term memory. This benchmark helps identify and improve these limitations.

Quick Start

# From packages/longmemeval directory

# 1. Set your API keys
export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key_here
export HF_TOKEN=your_huggingface_token_here  # For automatic dataset download

# 2. Run a benchmark (downloads datasets automatically if needed)
pnpm bench:s          # Run small dataset (10 parallel requests)
pnpm bench:m          # Run medium dataset (10 parallel requests)
pnpm bench:oracle     # Run oracle dataset (10 parallel requests)

# Or run quick 10-question tests
pnpm bench:s:quick    # Test with 10 questions from small dataset
pnpm bench:m:quick    # Test with 10 questions from medium dataset
pnpm bench:oracle:quick # Test with 10 questions from oracle dataset

Note: The benchmark will automatically download datasets on first run. Get your HuggingFace token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens

Manual Setup

1. Install Dependencies

# From the monorepo root
pnpm install
pnpm build

2. Download Dataset

# Set your HuggingFace token
export HF_TOKEN=your_token_here

# Download datasets (no Python or Git LFS required)
pnpm download

If automatic download fails, see DATA_DOWNLOAD_GUIDE.md for manual download instructions.

Usage

Run Benchmark

# From packages/longmemeval directory

# Quick commands for each dataset (10 parallel requests)
pnpm bench:s          # Small dataset (full run)
pnpm bench:m          # Medium dataset (full run)
pnpm bench:oracle     # Oracle dataset (full run)

# Quick test runs (10 questions only, 5 parallel)
pnpm bench:s:quick    # Small dataset (quick test)
pnpm bench:m:quick    # Medium dataset (quick test)
pnpm bench:oracle:quick # Oracle dataset (quick test)

# Advanced: Use full CLI with custom options
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_s --model gpt-4o

# Adjust parallelization (default: 5)
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_s --model gpt-4o --concurrency 20

# Graceful shutdown: Press Ctrl+C to stop and save progress

# Run with specific memory configuration
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_s --memory-config last-k --model gpt-4o
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_s --memory-config semantic-recall --model gpt-4o
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_s --memory-config working-memory --model gpt-4o

# Custom subset size
pnpm cli run --dataset longmemeval_oracle --model gpt-4o --subset 25

View Dataset Statistics

pnpm cli stats --dataset longmemeval_s

Evaluate Existing Results

pnpm cli evaluate --results ./results/run_12345/results.jsonl --dataset longmemeval_s

Generate Report

pnpm cli report --results ./results/

Memory Configurations

• full-history: Provide complete chat history (baseline)
• last-k: Use Mastra's lastMessages configuration (last 20 messages)
• semantic-recall: Use Mastra's semantic recall feature (requires vector store)
• working-memory: Use Mastra's working memory with template
• combined: Combination of last-k and semantic recall

Output

Results are saved in the results/ directory with:

• results.jsonl: Individual question results
• hypotheses.json: Model responses
• questions.json: Questions for reference
• metrics.json: Aggregated metrics and configuration

Benchmark Datasets

LongMemEval provides three dataset variants:

• longmemeval_s (Small): ~115k tokens per question (30-40 sessions)
  • Designed to fit within 128k context windows
  • Tests memory across dozens of conversation sessions
• longmemeval_m (Medium): ~1.5M tokens per question (500 sessions)
  • Challenges even the largest context windows
  • Tests memory across hundreds of sessions
• longmemeval_oracle: Only evidence sessions included
  • Used as a control to verify models can answer when given only relevant context
  • Helps isolate memory retrieval issues from comprehension issues

Citation

If you use this benchmark in your research, please cite the original paper:

@article{wu2024longmemeval,
  title={LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory},
  author={Wu, Di and Wang, Hongwei and Yu, Wenhao and Zhang, Yuwei and Chang, Kai-Wei and Yu, Dong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10813},
  year={2024}
}

Extending the Benchmark

To add custom memory configurations:

• Edit src/benchmark/runner.ts and add your configuration to getMemoryConfig()
• Update the MemoryConfigType in src/data/types.ts
• Implement the configuration logic in src/memory-adapters/mastra-adapter.ts