RAG2LTM
Conversational Agents:
From RAG to LTM
Opening
Towards Trustworthy Conversational Agents
A General Framework for Trustworthy Conversational Agents {Yue}
How Do Conversational Agents Reason {Yue}
Reduce Hallucinations for Conversational Agents {Yue}
Teaching Conversational Agents to Use Externals Tools {Yue}
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Conversational Agents {Yue}
Inclusive Multimodal Conversational Search Examples
Inclusive Information Access {Haiming}
Inclusive Symbol-based Conversational Search {Haiming}
DoodleShoper {Haiming}
Long-Term Memory (LTM) for Conversational Agents
Why Do We Need LTM {Dell}
Approaches to LTM {Changzhi & Jixiang}
Text LTM
Graph LTM
Parametric LTM
Evaluation of LTM {Xiangyu}
Looking Forward {Dell}
Closing
Dell Zhang, Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China
Yue Feng, University of Birmingham, UK,
Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK
Changzhi Sun, Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China
Jixiang Luo, Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China
Xiangyu Chen, Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China
Xuelong Li, Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China
Sunday, December 7 2025. [China Standard Time (UTC+8)] Half-Day (Afternoon)
Wyndham Grand Xi'an South, No. 208 Ci'en East Road, Qujiang New District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China
@ Function Room 7, Floor G
14:00 - 15:30 First Half
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break ☕
16:00 - 17:30 Second Half
@inproceedings{zhangConversationalAgentsRAG2025,
author = {Zhang, Dell and Feng, Yue and Liu, Haiming and Sun, Changzhi and Luo, Jixiang and Chen, Xiangyu and Li, Xuelong},
title = {Conversational Agents: From {RAG} to {LTM}},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400722189},
doi = {10.1145/3767695.3769671},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP)},
pages = {447–452},
location = {China}
}