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Main Authors: Hu, Xia, Zhuang, Honglei, Potetz, Brian, Fathi, Alireza, Hu, Bo, Samari, Babak, Zhou, Howard
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19001
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author Hu, Xia
Zhuang, Honglei
Potetz, Brian
Fathi, Alireza
Hu, Bo
Samari, Babak
Zhou, Howard
author_facet Hu, Xia
Zhuang, Honglei
Potetz, Brian
Fathi, Alireza
Hu, Bo
Samari, Babak
Zhou, Howard
contents The powerful reasoning of modern Vision Language Models open a new frontier for advanced personalization study. However, progress in this area is critically hampered by the lack of suitable benchmarks. To address this gap, we introduce Life-Bench, a comprehensive, synthetically generated multimodal benchmark built on simulated user digital footprints. Life-Bench features over questions evaluating a wide spectrum of capabilities, from persona understanding to complex reasoning over historical data. These capabilities expand far beyond prior benchmarks, reflecting the critical demands essential for real-world applications. Furthermore, we propose LifeGraph, an end-to-end framework that organizes personal context into a knowledge graph to facilitate structured retrieval and reasoning. Our experiments on Life-Bench reveal that existing methods falter significantly on complex personalized tasks, exposing a large performance headroom, especially in relational, temporal and aggregative reasoning. While LifeGraph closes this gap by leveraging structured knowledge and demonstrates a promising direction, these advanced personalization tasks remain a critical open challenge, motivating new research in this area.
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spellingShingle A Benchmark and Knowledge-Grounded Framework for Advanced Multimodal Personalization Study
Hu, Xia
Zhuang, Honglei
Potetz, Brian
Fathi, Alireza
Hu, Bo
Samari, Babak
Zhou, Howard
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The powerful reasoning of modern Vision Language Models open a new frontier for advanced personalization study. However, progress in this area is critically hampered by the lack of suitable benchmarks. To address this gap, we introduce Life-Bench, a comprehensive, synthetically generated multimodal benchmark built on simulated user digital footprints. Life-Bench features over questions evaluating a wide spectrum of capabilities, from persona understanding to complex reasoning over historical data. These capabilities expand far beyond prior benchmarks, reflecting the critical demands essential for real-world applications. Furthermore, we propose LifeGraph, an end-to-end framework that organizes personal context into a knowledge graph to facilitate structured retrieval and reasoning. Our experiments on Life-Bench reveal that existing methods falter significantly on complex personalized tasks, exposing a large performance headroom, especially in relational, temporal and aggregative reasoning. While LifeGraph closes this gap by leveraging structured knowledge and demonstrates a promising direction, these advanced personalization tasks remain a critical open challenge, motivating new research in this area.
title A Benchmark and Knowledge-Grounded Framework for Advanced Multimodal Personalization Study
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19001