PersonaBench: Evaluating AI Models on Understanding Personal Information through Accessing (Synthetic) Private User Data

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Auteurs principaux: Tan, Juntao, Yang, Liangwei, Liu, Zuxin, Liu, Zhiwei, Murthy, Rithesh, Awalgaonkar, Tulika Manoj, Zhang, Jianguo, Yao, Weiran, Zhu, Ming, Kokane, Shirley, Savarese, Silvio, Wang, Huan, Xiong, Caiming, Heinecke, Shelby
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author Tan, Juntao
Yang, Liangwei
Liu, Zuxin
Liu, Zhiwei
Murthy, Rithesh
Awalgaonkar, Tulika Manoj
Zhang, Jianguo
Yao, Weiran
Zhu, Ming
Kokane, Shirley
Savarese, Silvio
Wang, Huan
Xiong, Caiming
Heinecke, Shelby
author_facet Tan, Juntao
Yang, Liangwei
Liu, Zuxin
Liu, Zhiwei
Murthy, Rithesh
Awalgaonkar, Tulika Manoj
Zhang, Jianguo
Yao, Weiran
Zhu, Ming
Kokane, Shirley
Savarese, Silvio
Wang, Huan
Xiong, Caiming
Heinecke, Shelby
contents Personalization is critical in AI assistants, particularly in the context of private AI models that work with individual users. A key scenario in this domain involves enabling AI models to access and interpret a user's private data (e.g., conversation history, user-AI interactions, app usage) to understand personal details such as biographical information, preferences, and social connections. However, due to the sensitive nature of such data, there are no publicly available datasets that allow us to assess an AI model's ability to understand users through direct access to personal information. To address this gap, we introduce a synthetic data generation pipeline that creates diverse, realistic user profiles and private documents simulating human activities. Leveraging this synthetic data, we present PersonaBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI models' performance in understanding personal information derived from simulated private user data. We evaluate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using questions directly related to a user's personal information, supported by the relevant private documents provided to the models. Our results reveal that current retrieval-augmented AI models struggle to answer private questions by extracting personal information from user documents, highlighting the need for improved methodologies to enhance personalization capabilities in AI.
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spellingShingle PersonaBench: Evaluating AI Models on Understanding Personal Information through Accessing (Synthetic) Private User Data
Tan, Juntao
Yang, Liangwei
Liu, Zuxin
Liu, Zhiwei
Murthy, Rithesh
Awalgaonkar, Tulika Manoj
Zhang, Jianguo
Yao, Weiran
Zhu, Ming
Kokane, Shirley
Savarese, Silvio
Wang, Huan
Xiong, Caiming
Heinecke, Shelby
Artificial Intelligence
Personalization is critical in AI assistants, particularly in the context of private AI models that work with individual users. A key scenario in this domain involves enabling AI models to access and interpret a user's private data (e.g., conversation history, user-AI interactions, app usage) to understand personal details such as biographical information, preferences, and social connections. However, due to the sensitive nature of such data, there are no publicly available datasets that allow us to assess an AI model's ability to understand users through direct access to personal information. To address this gap, we introduce a synthetic data generation pipeline that creates diverse, realistic user profiles and private documents simulating human activities. Leveraging this synthetic data, we present PersonaBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI models' performance in understanding personal information derived from simulated private user data. We evaluate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using questions directly related to a user's personal information, supported by the relevant private documents provided to the models. Our results reveal that current retrieval-augmented AI models struggle to answer private questions by extracting personal information from user documents, highlighting the need for improved methodologies to enhance personalization capabilities in AI.
title PersonaBench: Evaluating AI Models on Understanding Personal Information through Accessing (Synthetic) Private User Data
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20616