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LifeSim: Long-Horizon User Life Simulator for Personalized Assistant Evaluation

Feiyu Duan, Xuanjing Huang, Zhongyu Wei

Published

Mar 12, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

High

Usefulness score

67/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

75% (High)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Mar 12, 2026

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General Long Horizon Pairwise Preference Simulation Env

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 as a practical starting point for protocol research, then validate against the original paper.

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.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants. However, existing benchmarks for personalized assistants remain misaligned with real-world user-assistant interactions, failing to capture the complexity of external contexts and users' cognitive states. To bridge this gap, we propose LifeSim, a user simulator that models user cognition through the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model within physical environments for coherent life trajectories generation, and simulates intention-driven user interactive behaviors. Based on LifeSim, we introduce LifeSim-Eval, a comprehensive benchmark for multi-scenario, long-horizon personalized assistance. LifeSim-Eval covers 8 life domains and 1,200 diverse scenarios, and adopts a multi-turn interactive method to assess models' abilities to complete explicit and implicit intentions, recover user profiles, and produce high-quality responses. Under both single-scenario and long-horizon settings, our experiments reveal that current LLMs face significant limitations in handling implicit intention and long-term user preference modeling.

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

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Simulation Env

Includes extracted eval setup.

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants."

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

Lifesim Eval

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"Based on LifeSim, we introduce LifeSim-Eval, a comprehensive benchmark for multi-scenario, long-horizon personalized assistance."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants."

Benchmarks and datasets

Lifesim-Eval

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Simulation Env
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
High
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Secondary protocol comparison source

Research brief

Metadata summary

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants.

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

Key takeaways

  • The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated progress toward universal AI assistants.
  • However, existing benchmarks for personalized assistants remain misaligned with real-world user-assistant interactions, failing to capture the complexity of external contexts and users' cognitive states.
  • To bridge this gap, we propose LifeSim, a user simulator that models user cognition through the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model within physical environments for coherent life trajectories generation, and simulates intention-driven user interactive behaviors.

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.

Recommended queries

Pairwise preference evaluation

Contribution summary

  • However, existing benchmarks for personalized assistants remain misaligned with real-world user-assistant interactions, failing to capture the complexity of external contexts and users' cognitive states.
  • To bridge this gap, we propose LifeSim, a user simulator that models user cognition through the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model within physical environments for coherent life trajectories generation, and simulates intention-driven user…
  • Based on LifeSim, we introduce LifeSim-Eval, a comprehensive benchmark for multi-scenario, long-horizon personalized assistance.

Why it matters for eval

  • However, existing benchmarks for personalized assistants remain misaligned with real-world user-assistant interactions, failing to capture the complexity of external contexts and users' cognitive states.
  • Based on LifeSim, we introduce LifeSim-Eval, a comprehensive benchmark for multi-scenario, long-horizon personalized assistance.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Simulation Env

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: Lifesim-Eval

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.