User as Engram: Local Parametric Edits for Personal Memory
User as Engram proposes storing per-user facts as surgical, hash-keyed edits to a memory table, leaving reasoning in a shared adapter. This design achieves 5.6x higher indirect-reasoning accuracy and maintains base-level reasoning performance, with a memory footprint 33,000x smaller than per-user LoRA. The approach enables disjoint user edits that compose losslessly, outperforming retrieval pipelines beyond 100 facts.