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cs.AI,cs.CL,cs.HC · 2608.07438 · 2026-08-07

PsychoAgent: An Affect-Sensitive Cognitive Architecture for Conflict-Aware Memory in LLM Agents

Mohammad Amanlou,Parham Abed Azad,Farbod Davoodi,Mostafa Masumi,Behnam Bahrak,Abdol-Hossein Vahabie
TL;DR:人类认知不只看主题相似度,情绪显著性与未解决的冲突也决定什么能被回忆。PsychoAgent 把事实记忆与情感记忆分开,经"冲突感知执行控制器"整合,得到更类人的 agent 记忆。

🎯 问题

人类的记忆提取不只看主题相似度:情感重要性、未解决的冲突同样决定可访问性。现有 agent 记忆架构没有显式建模这一点。

🔬 方法

PsychoAgent 认知架构:双记忆检索(事实记忆 + 情感记忆),情感记忆先按语义相关过滤再按显著性重排;冲突感知执行控制器整合两者,支持离线重组与长期纵向轨迹。
章节结构(全文标题提取):
1 Introduction
2 Background and Related Work
2.1 Cognitive Architectures and Memory in Language Agents
2.2 Affective Salience, Attention, and Memory Control
2.3 Conflict Monitoring and Reflective Control
2.4 Psychoanalytic Inspiration and the Computational Gap
3 Architecture
3.1 Computational Roles and Agent State
3.2 Dual-Memory Retrieval
3.3 Memory Access and Offline Recombination

📊 结果

受控对比 + 盲人评测显示检索与行为都更接近人类;纵向三天 trace 展示了情感显著性对记忆长期组织的影响。

📝 原文摘要

▶ 原文摘要 Abstract
Human-like cognition does not select past experience by topical similarity alone: affective significance and unresolved conflict also shape what becomes accessible. We present PsychoAgent, a cognitive architecture for LLM agents that separates factual and affective memory and integrates both through a conflict-aware executive controller. Affective memories are first filtered by semantic relevance and then re-ranked by salience, preserving topical fit while allowing emotionally important traces to enter the prompt. Across three controlled conflict scenarios, the full architecture retrieved more conflict-critical memories than semantic-affective and single-memory RAG baselines (0.933 vs. 0.500 and 0.667), with a small semantic-similarity cost. Five blinded raters evaluated 27 outputs. After within-rater standardization, the full architecture had the highest overall mean (+0.22 SD), but corrected pairwise differences were not significant. A three-day illustrative trace further shows persistent affect, offline memory recombination, and selective memory reweighting. The findings support affect-sensitive retrieval as an inspectable mechanism for modeling human-like conflict effects in LLM agents.
Deep Read · 2026-08-11高松灯 / Agent 日报
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