arXiv AI

P-ContextBench: From Personal Fact Recall to Personalized Agent Behavior

P-ContextBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate how well large language models understand and safely use personal context. It creates realistic, life‑story‑grounded digital humans from U.S. demographic seeds, embedding traits, routines, goals, and constraints in fragmented, evolving synthetic mobile‑app records. The benchmark tests five capabilities—fact recovery, temporal tracking, pattern inference, and safe handling of conflicting requests—using a multi‑stage validation pipeline and 4,810 verified test cases.

arXiv AI
Aug 12

UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

arXiv:2608. 10042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-use LLMs are increasingly asked to act on users' behalf, but existing benchmarks usually focus on profile recall, style imitation, generic tool use, or response-level personalization.

By Xuexiong Yin, Zechuan Chen, Yongsen Zheng, Yuxiang Zhang, Jingyuan Yang, Bin Wang, Yubin Wang, Keze Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 7

LUNAR: Benchmarking Personalized Large Language Models on UNiversal User BehAvioR Logs

arXiv:2608. 05246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing personalized LLM benchmarks primarily rely on textual personas or isolated behavioral signals, providing limited evaluation of cross-domain behavioral personalization, where responses must be grounded in heterogeneous daily-life activities.

By Jiahao Zhang, Yongzhi Tong, Zelin Fu, Pengde Zhao, Yanmei Jiang, Jiang Feng, Min Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

ContextEcho: A Benchmark for Persona Drift in Long Agentic-Coding Sessions

ContextEcho is a benchmark and harness designed to measure persona drift in large language models during long, tool‑using coding sessions. It includes a 25‑probe identity suite, a snapshot‑then‑probe protocol that preserves the main conversation, and both judged and judge‑free measurement surfaces. Across 23 frontier models and thousands of turns, the benchmark shows that persona drift is widespread, not limited to specific model families, and that simple in‑session compaction does not reset it, while a single‑shot anchor can restore the intended persona.

By Xianzhong Ding, Yangyang Yu, Changwei Liu, Bill Zhao, Le Chen, Tao Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 27

iPrefBench: A User-Centric Benchmark for Personalized Mobile Use Agents

arXiv:2610.34735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent that truly knows and acts on behalf of its user has been a long-standing promise of AI assistants. Computer-use agents bring this promise with...

By Yuting Ning, Ruijia Cheng, Sushobhan Ghosh, Peitong Duan, HungShi Lin, Abhishek Sundararajan, Shreyash Pandey, Huan Sun, Jeffrey Nichols, Eldon Schoop
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 23

ColaBench: Evaluating Memory-Guided Knowledge Acquisition in Personal Agents

ColaBench is a synthetic benchmark designed to evaluate how personal agents use long‑term interaction history to acquire and apply external knowledge. It contains 349 tasks in health and daily living, 10 user profiles, and a 13,033‑document knowledge base, with an Evidence Graph linking personal conditions, disclosed information, prior document exposure, and answer requirements. The paper also introduces MemKB, a system that uses state summaries and memory‑document links to retrieve relevant knowledge, achieving 86.25% accuracy with an average of 4.07 interaction rounds per task.

By Wenjie Zhang, Zhichao Shi, Xuhui Jiang, Xiaojun Wu, Cehao Yang, Chengjin Xu, Xiaoning Song
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

The Situated Identity Test: Distinguishing Persistent Cognitive Identity from Persona Imitation

The paper introduces the Situated Identity Test (SIT), a framework that assesses whether a language model’s behavior can be traced to a specific developmental lineage rather than merely imitating a persona. SIT requires agents to possess accurate knowledge of their recorded experiences while appropriately ignoring ungrounded information, and it demonstrates that policies based only on compressed profiles are limited in distinguishing between colliding life histories. The authors present SITBench, an evaluation suite with 25 profile‑collision pairs and 10,000 probes across nine model architectures, and provide open‑source tools and pilot results on state‑of‑the‑art foundation models.

By Jun He, Deying Yu
arXiv AI
Sep 10

A Three-Tier Persona Vector for Controllable User Simulation in Agentic Evaluation

The paper introduces a three-tier persona vector for user simulation in evaluating LLM agents, comprising 23 dimensions across demographics, behavioral traits, and emotional states, plus a query-complexity overlay. It demonstrates that these nuanced personas generate diverse, scenario-reactive conversations, leading to significant variations in agent goal achievement and compliance across different contexts. The model’s design allows for reproducible, auditable user behavior patterns without relying on learned covariance matrices.

By Rahul Khedar, Eshita, Sneha Teja Sree Reddy Thondapu, Mayank Malhotra, Arup Kumar Das, Jitesh Chandra Mishra, Arun Menon, Avinash Karn, Mouli V