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Setoka introduces a critical benchmark that moves beyond simple fact retrieval to evaluate how AI agents infer abstract user characteristics like personality traits from fragmented, heterogeneous data sources. By grounding its framework in cognitive and psychological theories, this work highlights the current limitations of existing memory systems when handling deep behavioral patterns over time. The findings suggest that future personalized agent architectures must prioritize mechanisms capable of cross-source integration and long-term abstraction to achieve genuine understanding.
Setoka: A Benchmark for Hierarchical User Understanding in Personalized Agents over Heterogeneous Data
arXiv:2607.27056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized agents are increasingly applied to assist users across a wide range of tasks. Effective personalized assistance requires not only retrieving explicit facts from past interactions stored in agent memory, but also inferring abstract personal characteristics. However, existing memory benchmarks primarily evaluate whether an agent can retrieve information explicitly stated in conversational histories, failing to provide an effective assessment of deeper user understanding. In this work, we propose Setoka, a benchmark for evaluating memory-augmented personalized agents with hierarchical user understanding from heterogeneous data. Grounded in theories from cognitive and personality psychology, Setoka defines four levels of user understanding, i.e., semantic memory, episodic memory, behavior pattern, and personality trait. Moreover, to enable realistic yet privacy-preserving evaluation, we design a psychometrics-based pipeline that synthesizes diverse, coherent heterogeneous user data and queries at scale. Finally, we leverage Setoka to evaluate 3 language models combined with 5 memory systems for 10 synthetic users. Our comprehensive evaluation reveals that while existing systems perform well on semantic memory retrieval, their performance declines on episodic memory. Moreover, when dealing with behavior pattern and personality trait understanding tasks that require integrating heterogeneous and fragmented information dispersed over time, performance declines even further. These findings demonstrate that user understanding cannot be handled by simple fact retrieval, motivating the design of memory mechanisms for cross-source integration and abstraction over long-term user behavior.
Abstract:Personalized agents are increasingly applied to assist users across a wide range of tasks. Effective personalized assistance requires not only retrieving explicit facts from past interactions stored in agent memory, but also inferring abstract personal characteristics. However, existing memory benchmarks primarily evaluate whether an agent can retrieve information explicitly stated in conversational histories, failing to provide an effective assessment of deeper user understanding. In this work, we propose Setoka, a benchmark for evaluating memory-augmented personalized agents with hierarchical user understanding from heterogeneous data. Grounded in theories from cognitive and personality psychology, Setoka defines four levels of user understanding, i.e., semantic memory, episodic memory, behavior pattern, and personality trait. Moreover, to enable realistic yet privacy-preserving evaluation, we design a psychometrics-based pipeline that synthesizes diverse, coherent heterogeneous user data and queries at scale. Finally, we leverage Setoka to evaluate 3 language models combined with 5 memory systems for 10 synthetic users. Our comprehensive evaluation reveals that while existing systems perform well on semantic memory retrieval, their performance declines on episodic memory. Moreover, when dealing with behavior pattern and personality trait understanding tasks that require integrating heterogeneous and fragmented information dispersed over time, performance declines even further. These findings demonstrate that user understanding cannot be handled by simple fact retrieval, motivating the design of memory mechanisms for cross-source integration and abstraction over long-term user behavior.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2607.27056 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.27056v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.27056 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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