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arXiv2026

Cognis: Context-Aware Memory for Conversational AI Agents

LLM agents lack persistent memory, causing conversations to reset each session and preventing personalization over time. We present Lyzr Cognis, a unified memory architecture for conversational AI agents that addresses this limitation through a multi-stage retrieval pipeline. Cognis combines a dual-store backend pairing OpenSearch BM25 keyword matching with Matryoshka vector similarity search, fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Its context-aware ingestion pipeline retrieves existing memories before extraction, enabling intelligent version tracking that preserves full memory history while keeping the store consistent. Temporal boosting enhances time-sensitive queries, and a BGE-2 cross-encoder reranker refines final result quality. We evaluate Cognis on two independent benchmarks -- LoCoMo and LongMemEval -- across eight answer generation models, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on both. The system is open-source and deployed in production serving conversational AI applications.

cs.CL↗

arXiv2026

The Six Sigma Agent: Achieving Enterprise-Grade Reliability in LLM Systems Through Consensus-Driven Decomposed Execution

Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable capabilities yet remain fundamentally probabilistic, presenting critical reliability challenges for enterprise deployment. We introduce the Six Sigma Agent, a novel architecture that achieves enterprise-grade reliability through three synergistic components: (1) task decomposition into a dependency tree of atomic actions; (2) micro-agent sampling where each task is executed n times in parallel across diverse LLMs to generate independent outputs; and (3) consensus voting with dynamic scaling, clustering outputs and selecting the answer from the winning cluster with maximum votes. We prove that sampling n independent outputs with error rate p achieves system error O(p^{ceil(n/2)}), enabling exponential reliability gains. Even using cheaper models with 5% per-action error, consensus voting with 5 agents reduces error to 0.11%; dynamic scaling to 13 agents achieves 3.4 DPMO (Defects Per Million Opportunities), the Six Sigma standard. Evaluation across three enterprise use cases demonstrates a 14,700x reliability improvement over single-agent execution while reducing costs by 80%. Our work establishes that reliability in AI systems emerges from principled redundancy and consensus rather than model scaling alone.

cs.AI↗