HABIT-Bench: Evaluating Habit Induction from Longitudinal Weak Evidence in Agent Memory
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The paper introduces MemPABench, an interactive environment designed to evaluate how personal agents remember and act on user interaction preferences. The benchmark features long‑horizon tasks where agents must decide when to clarify, confirm, or act autonomously, using data from four simulated users who provided 99 sessions over four months and five preference changes each. Experiments across four memory systems and LLM backbones show that current memory approaches offer limited improvement in preference selection, with retrieval‑based methods performing no better than no memory and file‑based memory sometimes applying preferences in irrelevant contexts.
The paper introduces the Multi-Session Personalized Tool Calling (MPT) benchmark, containing 4,695 instances across 459 multi‑session histories that test Preference Recall, Induction, and Transfer. It proposes PRefine, a test‑time memory method that refines a user’s latent preference via a generate‑verify‑refine loop. Experiments with five LLMs show that PRefine outperforms existing memory systems and even full‑history prompting on Preference Transfer, suggesting that personalized agents should encode behavior as preferences rather than merely storing past interactions.
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The paper investigates whether using a language model’s memory to personalize responses aligns with user preferences. By collecting about 1,000 pairwise judgments from 87 participants on ChatGPT queries that included personal memories, the authors find that memory‑conditioned responses are not consistently preferred and that users sometimes strongly favor non‑memory responses. An automatic reward model trained on these judgments achieves 72.8% preference prediction accuracy and outperforms existing baselines, highlighting the need for evaluation and optimization objectives that better reflect user preferences for memory use.