Concepts · Humans and machines
How memory benchmarks evaluate activation, selective forgetting, contextual recall, interference, adaptation, and retrieval efficiency.
Memory in Benchmarking
Benchmarking treats memory as behavior to evaluate, not only storage to verify. A memory system can be tested by asking whether the right information becomes active, whether stale information stays out, and whether retrieval changes correctly with context.
Core terms: activation precision, irrelevant activation rate, junk activation rate, interference resistance, context switch success rate, belief update accuracy, retrieval efficiency, forgotten-memory ratio.
Terms that change meaning across fields: activation, forgetting, retrieval, consolidation, adaptation, interference.
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