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feat(episteme): evidence-gap tracking during retrieval #2851

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MemR3 (Dec 2025, arxiv 2512.20237) introduces evidence-gap tracking: during memory retrieval, explicitly track what evidence is still missing and do iterative retrieval rounds with reflection between them.

Currently, aletheia's recall pipeline does single-shot retrieval (vector search + Datalog query). The evidence-gap technique would make retrieval iterative:

  1. First retrieval round returns initial facts
  2. Reflection step identifies what's still unknown
  3. Second retrieval round targets the gaps
  4. Repeat until gaps are closed or budget exhausted

How this applies

The evidence-gap tracker is a form of retrieval self-audit — the system explicitly tracks "what do I still not know?" This could improve recall quality for complex queries that span multiple knowledge domains.

Source

MemR3: "Memory Retrieval via Reflective Reasoning" (arxiv 2512.20237, Dec 2025). Works with both chunk-based RAG and graph backends.

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