Personal AI Agents

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Personal AI agents aim to understand a user's preferences, history, and current goals, then help by answering, planning, or acting across services and devices. Common approaches combine long-term memory—such as retrieval, temporal or graph structures, and executable user rules—with tool-using language models, reusable skills, feedback, and sometimes on-device runtimes. Benchmarks increasingly test multi-app workflows, evolving or hidden intent, proactive timing, and long-horizon state changes, alongside memory and personalization quality. Systems still struggle with complex tool orchestration and reliable grounding, while persistent access raises open questions about privacy, consent, user control, and whether delegated actions truly serve the user.

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  1. iPrefBench: A User-Centric Benchmark for Personalized Mobile Use Agents

    Oct 26, 2026Yuting Ning, Ruijia Cheng, Sushobhan Ghosh +7Personal AI AgentsMobile Agent Benchmarks

    The Ohio State University · Apple

  2. Measure Before You Train: Typed Decision Models vs. a Classical Baseline vs. a Generative LLM for Routing a Personal Multilingual Inbox

    Oct 23, 2026Federico LuccaPersonal AI AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Independent researcher, Trento, Italy

  3. ColaBench: Evaluating Memory-Guided Knowledge Acquisition in Personal Agents

    Oct 22, 2026Wenjie Zhang, Zhichao Shi, Xuhui Jiang +4Memory-Augmented AgentsPersonal AI Agents

    Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, UCAS, Beijing, China · State Key Lab of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Beijing, China +3

  4. Why Bother Me Again? Benchmarking Personal Agent Memory for Interaction Preferences

    Oct 21, 2026Jialin Li, Zhenhao Chen, Hanjun Luo +1Memory Agent BenchmarksPersonal AI Agents

    New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  5. OptionWorld: A Benchmark for Diagnosing Failures of LLMs as Long-Term Personal Assistants

    Oct 20, 2026Ruoyu Zhang, Zhaocen Liu, Weiyi Tian +2LLM Agent EvaluationLLM Agents

    University of British Columbia · University of Chicago · Independent Researcher +1

  6. MemoProAgent: Toward Memory-Driven Proactive Assistance

    Oct 15, 2026Shenglai Zeng, Xiao Yang, Tiffany Ma +15Proactive AgentsProactive Assistance

    Michigan State University · Meta Reality Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs +3

  7. Memorizing Who, Knowing How: Benchmarking Personal and Procedural Memory for Persistent Assistants

    Oct 14, 2026Maosheng Qin, Qi Zhang, Mingxuan Xia +5Agent MemoryPersistent Memory for Language Models

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  8. Knowing the User Is Not Knowing What We Established: Grounding Awareness in Personal Agents

    Oct 13, 2026Jiajun Chen, Xinyue Chen, Yicheng Jiang +1Personal AI AgentsAI Agent Reliability

    Carnegie Mellon University · New York University · NYU Shanghai

  9. nanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own

    Oct 6, 2026Guangyi Liu, Yong Liu, Jiangning ZhangPersonal AI AgentsComputer-Use Agents

    Zhejiang University

  10. Who Keeps the Gains from Personal AI Assistants? Seller Adaptation and the Unassisted in a Language-Model Market Simulation

    Oct 5, 2026Haonan Huang, Joey XiaoAgentic CommercePersonal AI Agents

    Princeton University · New York University

  11. Who Is Your Agent Serving? Provider-Side Indirect Prompt Injection in Proactive Agents

    Oct 4, 2026Rui Wang, Chao Wang, Xinchen Wang +3AI Agent SecurityIndirect Prompt Injection

    Hefei University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China

  12. Richard: Voice-First Mobile Interaction for Persistent Tasks

    Sep 30, 2026Xinyang ChenSpoken Dialogue SystemsConversational Agents

  13. PIA: A Personal Intelligence Agent Turning Health Conversations into Records and Records into Understanding

    Sep 25, 2026Jeonghun Yoon, Dongchan Kim, Hongyeon Yu +2Personal AI AgentsLLM Agent Memory

    KAIST, Republic of Korea · NAVER Corp., Seongnam, Republic of Korea · NAVER Corp., Bellevue, WA, USA

  14. Emergi-PersonaOS: A Persona Agent Operating System for Situational Adaptation and Controllable Evolution

    Sep 23, 2026Haoluan Fu, Keni Chen, Xinyu Jia +3Persona ConsistencyPersona-Conditioned Generation

    Emergi Lab of Qianzhen Digital Tech, China · Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  15. Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents

    Sep 21, 2026Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Brian Jabarian +1Personal AI AgentsAI Alignment

    Foundation AI, Cisco · Carnegie Mellon University

  16. An Agentic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention System for Personalized Sleep Support: Proof-of-Concept Study with N of 1 Data

    Sep 18, 2026Nick Rezaee, Chelsea BoccagnoHealthcarePersonal AI Agents

    Department of Biostatistics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts, USA

  17. Efficient Test-Time Adaptation through Human-AI Interaction

    Sep 3, 2026Zora Zhiruo Wang, Apurva Gandhi, Rulin Shao +22Test-Time AdaptationRubric-Based Evaluation

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Washington · Handshake AI +3

  18. Delegation Asymmetry in Agentic Recommender Systems: Measuring Two-Sided Receptivity in Online Dating

    Aug 18, 2026Daria Leshchikova, Valentina V. Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev +1Human-AI InteractionPersonal AI Agents

    Fleamily, Inc. Delaware, USA · Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA

  19. Toward Personal Intelligence Through Cooperative Observation

    Aug 17, 2026Yashar Talebirad, Osman Jime, Ali Parsaee +3Personal AI AgentsHuman-AI Collaboration

    Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada · MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada · University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada +1

  20. VibeLifeBench: Can Your Life Agent Be Proactive and Persistent in a Living World?

    Aug 11, 2026Xiaohongshu Dots Studio, Evolvent AIProactive AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  21. Homebot: A Personal AI Agent for Conversational Home Assistance and Automation

    Aug 3, 2026Shengyuan Ye, Yixin Zhang, Han Liang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsTool-Using Agents

    Power Dispatching and Controlling Center, Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  22. Code Is the Body: Agent-Owned Software Bodies for Recursive Evolution and Descent

    Jul 30, 2026Roy Zhao, Zhenyu ZhaoAI Agent GovernanceHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · 1Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · Independent Researcher +1

  23. PAUSE: A User-Centric Benchmark for Personal AI Assistants in Unified Service Environments

    Jul 29, 2026Haoyu Chen, Xirui Shi, Yuyao Wang +2Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  24. Setoka: A Benchmark for Hierarchical User Understanding in Personalized Agents over Heterogeneous Data

    Jul 29, 2026Lingyang Zeng, Guangze Chen, Kaichen Yu +9Personality Modeling in Language ModelsMemory Agent Benchmarks

    East China Normal University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  25. HiMe: Real-Time Self-Hosted Personal Agent Platform for Health Insights with Wearable Devices

    Jul 23, 2026Wei Liu, Siya Qi, Linhai Zhang +2Privacy Protection for LLM AgentsLLM Agents

    King’s College London · The Alan Turing Institute

  26. Mi-Memory: A Lifecycle Memory Framework for Personal AI

    Jul 21, 2026Xule Liu, Hanlin Teng, Chao Li +15Multimodal MemoryLLM Personalization

    Darwin Agent Team

  27. PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks

    Jul 16, 2026Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao +12Personal AI AgentsLLM Personalization

    University of Pennsylvania · Meta Recommendation Systems · MIT

  28. PaperRouter-Agent: A Content-Grounded LLM Agent for Personalized Hierarchical Paper Routing

    Jul 13, 2026Keshen Zhou, Lintao Wang, Suqin Yuan +3LLM PersonalizationRetrieval-Augmented Classification

    University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

  29. SovereignPA-Bench: Evaluating User-Owned Personal Agents under Evolving Intent, Platform Mediation, and Consent Constraints

    Jul 6, 2026Dylan Zongmin LiuLLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Stanford University

  30. SovereignNegotiation-Bench: Evaluating User-Owned Personal Agents In Delegated Bargaining Under Privacy, Consent, Evidence, And Institutional Pressure

    Jul 2, 2026Dylan Zongmin LiuAutomated NegotiationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Stanford University