TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xinliang Frederick, Wang, Lu
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author Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wang, Lu
author_facet Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wang, Lu
contents Personalized large language models (PLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their ability to align outputs with individual's needs and preferences. However, they still struggle with long-horizon tasks, such as tracking a user's extensive history of conversations or activities. Existing memory mechanisms often fail to capture evolving behaviors, and RAG paradigms are trapped by a quality-efficiency tradeoff. Meanwhile, parametric adaptation is bottlenecked by train-inference gap due to the scarcity of labeled data. To enhance the long-horizon capabilities of PLLMs, we introduce TSUBASA, a two-pronged approach designed to improve memory writing via dynamic memory evolution, and memory reading via self-learning with a context distillation objective to internalize user experiences. Extensive evaluations on long-horizon benchmarks using the Qwen-3 model family (4B to 32B) validate the effectiveness of TSUBASA, surpassing competitive memory-augmented systems that rely primarily on memory writing, such as Mem0 and Memory-R1. Our analyses further confirms that TSUBASA breaks the quality-efficiency barrier to achieve Pareto improvements, delivering robust, high-fidelity personalization with a reduced token budget.
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spellingShingle TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation
Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wang, Lu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Personalized large language models (PLLMs) have garnered significant attention for their ability to align outputs with individual's needs and preferences. However, they still struggle with long-horizon tasks, such as tracking a user's extensive history of conversations or activities. Existing memory mechanisms often fail to capture evolving behaviors, and RAG paradigms are trapped by a quality-efficiency tradeoff. Meanwhile, parametric adaptation is bottlenecked by train-inference gap due to the scarcity of labeled data. To enhance the long-horizon capabilities of PLLMs, we introduce TSUBASA, a two-pronged approach designed to improve memory writing via dynamic memory evolution, and memory reading via self-learning with a context distillation objective to internalize user experiences. Extensive evaluations on long-horizon benchmarks using the Qwen-3 model family (4B to 32B) validate the effectiveness of TSUBASA, surpassing competitive memory-augmented systems that rely primarily on memory writing, such as Mem0 and Memory-R1. Our analyses further confirms that TSUBASA breaks the quality-efficiency barrier to achieve Pareto improvements, delivering robust, high-fidelity personalization with a reduced token budget.
title TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07894