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Towards Natural Personalization: Evaluating Long-Horizon Preference Following in Personalized User-LLM Interactions

Qianyun Guo, Yibo Li, Yue Liu, Bryan Hooi

Published

Mar 4, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

67/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

70% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Aug 31, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
67/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions. However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in natural, long-term situations remains underexplored. This work proposes RealPref, a benchmark for evaluating natural preference-following in personalized user-LLM interactions. RealPref features 100 synthetic user profiles, 1300 personalized preferences, 4 types of preference expression (from explicit to implicit), and long-horizon interaction histories. It explored three types of test tasks (multiple-choice, true-or-false, and open-ended), with granular rubrics for LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. Results indicate that LLM performance drops significantly as context length grows and preference expression becomes more implicit, and that generalizing user preference understanding to unseen scenarios poses further challenges. RealPref and these findings provide a foundation for future research to develop user-aware LLM assistants that better adapt to individual needs.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Pairwise Preference, Rubric Rating

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Llm As Judge

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions."

Reported Metrics

strong

Context length

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Results indicate that LLM performance drops significantly as context length grows and preference expression becomes more implicit, and that generalizing user preference understanding to unseen scenarios poses further challenges."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

context length
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference, Rubric Rating
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Multi Dim Rubric
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Llm As Judge
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
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Secondary protocol comparison source

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions.
  • However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in natural, long-term situations remains underexplored.
  • This work proposes RealPref, a benchmark for evaluating natural preference-following in personalized user-LLM interactions.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Long-horizon tasks) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions.
  • However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in natural, long-term situations remains underexplored.
  • This work proposes RealPref, a benchmark for evaluating natural preference-following in personalized user-LLM interactions.

Why it matters for eval

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactions.
  • However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in natural, long-term situations remains underexplored.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference, Rubric Rating

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Llm As Judge

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: context length