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MemoriEase 4.0: A Lifelog QA System Powered by Reasoning LLMs

Tran, Quang-Linh orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5409-0916, Nguyen, Binh T., Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 and Gurrin, Cathal orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2903-3968 (2026) MemoriEase 4.0: A Lifelog QA System Powered by Reasoning LLMs. In: The 9th Annual ACM Workshop on the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC ’26), 16-19 June, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 979-8-4007-2697-2

Abstract
Lifelog Question-Answering (QA) has become an important application of lifelogging, answering questions posed over personal lifelog data to help lifeloggers gain insight into their lives, from lifestyle analytics to past-event reflection and behavioural patterns. Building on our previous work on lifelog retrieval, we present MemoriEase4.0, our system for the Lifelog Search Challenge 2026 (LSC’26),which targets the QA task using reasoning large language models (LLMs). The system adopts a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach to answer questions. For complex questions that require aggregating information, such as counting or comparison across time, reasoning LLMs analyse the retrieved evidence step by step before producing an answer. At the live competition, MemoriEase 4.0 finished third overall among fifteen teams and recorded the strongest ad-hoc retrieval performance. Our analysis further identifies answer latency and aggregation accuracy as the principal challenges that remain for competitive lifelog QA. Beyond the challenge, the system aims to evolve into a complete assistant for everyday lifelog utilisation.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Lifelog Retrieval, Large Language Models, Question-Answering
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
Computer Science > Lifelog
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: LSC '26: Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM Workshop on the Lifelog Search Challenge. . SIGMM. ISBN 979-8-4007-2697-2
Publisher:SIGMM
Official URL:https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3810984
Copyright Information:Authors
Funders:ADAPT
ID Code:33212
Deposited On:18 Aug 2026 13:17 by Quang-Linh Tran . Last Modified 18 Aug 2026 13:17
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