baselines/

June 8, 2026 · View on GitHub

This folder holds the upstream source code of every memory-system baseline MemoryBench depends on. The Python code under ../src/agent/ imports directly from these directories, so they must be present on disk for the corresponding baselines to load.

What's here

FolderUpstreamHow it ships
A_mem/https://github.com/agiresearch/A-memTracked in git
MemoryOS/https://github.com/BAI-LAB/MemoryOSTracked in git
mem0/https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0Tracked in git (editable install — see below)
AutoSkill/https://github.com/ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkillTracked in git

Why these are vendored

The baselines src/agent/*.py actually imports from (a_mem, mem0, memoryos) are vendored in-tree so a fresh git clone of MemoryBench is enough to run experiments — no extra fetching, no submodule dance.

A baseline that reimplements its algorithm in MemoryBench style (no upstream import) needs no vendored source at all. If you keep the upstream around purely for code-reading, treat it as a reference-only mirror: keep it on your machine and list the folder in the top-level .gitignore so git status stays clean.

Editable-install requirement for mem0

baselines/mem0/ is consumed as a Python package via the imports in ../src/agent/mem0.py. After cloning MemoryBench you have to install it once in editable mode:

cd baselines/mem0
pip install -e .

This is documented in the top-level README.md under "Environment Setup".

Adding a new upstream baseline

If your baseline's MemoryBench agent imports from an upstream package (like mem0 and a_mem do), vendor the upstream source here so a fresh clone runs without extra fetch steps:

cd baselines/
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/<org>/<repo>.git <Name>
rm -rf <Name>/.git    # drop the nested .git so the outer repo can track files
git add <Name>

If your baseline reimplements the algorithm in MemoryBench style (no upstream import), keep the upstream as a reference-only mirror and add the folder to .gitignore:

baselines/<Name>/

The walkthrough in ../CONTRIBUTING.md covers this trade-off in more detail.