Mem0 Directed Graph Memory: Entity-Relation Conflict Resolution for 26% Agent Accuracy Boost Over Vector-Only Memory

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Mem0 graph memory (January 2026) stores agent memories as directed labeled graphs: entities become nodes, inferred relationships become typed edges. An Extraction Phase runs entity recognition + relation generation on incoming messages; an Update Phase runs a Conflict Detector and LLM-powered Update Resolver (add / merge / invalidate / skip). This produces 26% relative improvement over OpenAI memory baselines on LLM-as-a-Judge metrics, 91% lower p95 latency, and 90% token savings vs naive retrieval. A graph knows not just 'user likes coffee' but 'user orders from Blue Bottle, last Tuesday, discussed during morning routine planning' — multi-hop relationships invisible to cosine similarity.