Why Bother Me Again? Benchmarking Personal Agent Memory for Interaction Preferences
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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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MemoryArena is a new evaluation gym that benchmarks agent memory in interdependent multi‑session tasks. Unlike prior benchmarks that test memorization or single‑session action in isolation, MemoryArena requires agents to acquire memory while interacting with the environment and then use that memory to guide future decisions across a range of tasks such as web navigation, planning, information search, and formal reasoning. The benchmark reveals that agents excelling on existing long‑context memory tests perform poorly here, highlighting a gap in current memory evaluation methods.
AdaMem introduces adaptive memory policies that allow personalized agents to decide what information to write into long‑term memory based on user preferences for each interaction context. Each policy is updated from periodic feedback and controls subsequent memory writing, aiming to improve relevance and reduce unnecessary memory persistence. In experiments on AdaMem‑Bench, AdaMem raises QA accuracy from 80.0% to 84.35% while cutting persistent memory by 9.27%, though models still struggle to execute policies reliably.
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