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Latent Preference Modeling for Cross-Session Personalized Tool Calling

Computation and Language 2026-04-21 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Users often omit essential details in their requests to LLM-based agents, resulting in under-specified inputs for tool use. This poses a fundamental challenge for tool-augmented agents, as API execution typically requires complete arguments, highlighting the need for personalized tool calling. To study this problem, we introduce MPT, a benchmark comprising 265 multi-session dialogues that cover three challenges: Preference Recall, Preference Induction, and Preference Transfer. We also propose PRefine, a test-time memory-augmented method that represents user preferences as evolving hypotheses. Through a generate--verify--refine loop, it extracts reusable constraints from history and improves tool-calling accuracy while using only 1.24% of the tokens required by full-history prompting. These results indicate that robust personalization in agentic systems depends on memory that captures the reasons behind user choices, not just the choices themselves.

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@article{arxiv.2604.17886,
  title  = {Latent Preference Modeling for Cross-Session Personalized Tool Calling},
  author = {Yejin Yoon and Minseo Kim and Taeuk Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17886},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Under review. 25 pages, 10 figures, 16 tables

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:17:45.718Z