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PersonalAlign: Hierarchical Implicit Intent Alignment for Personalized GUI Agent with Long-Term User-Centric Records

arXiv 2601.09636 ↗First posted 14 Jan 2026cs.AI cs.CV cs.HCcited by 16

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → GUI and mobile agents

Abstract (arXiv)

While GUI agents have shown strong performance under explicit and completion instructions, real-world deployment requires aligning with users' more complex implicit intents. In this work, we highlight Hierarchical Implicit Intent Alignment for Personalized GUI Agent (PersonalAlign), a new agent task that requires agents to leverage long-term user records as persistent context to resolve omitted preferences in vague instructions and anticipate latent routines by user state for proactive assistance. To facilitate this study, we introduce AndroidIntent, a benchmark designed to evaluate agents' ability in resolving vague instructions and providing proactive suggestions through reasoning over long-term user records. We annotated 775 user-specific preferences and 215 routines from 20k long-term records across different users for evaluation. Furthermore, we introduce Hierarchical Intent Memory Agent (HIM-Agent), which maintains a continuously updating personal memory and hierarchically organizes user preferences and routines for personalization. Finally, we evaluate a range of GUI agents on AndroidIntent, including GPT-5, Qwen3-VL, and UI-TARS, further results show that HIM-Agent significantly improves both execution and proactive performance by 15.7% and 7.3%.

Key facts. Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in GUI and mobile agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 31 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 Jan 2026.

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31 of 43 references.

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  2. 2025UI-TARS-2 Technical Report: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning2 Sep
  3. 2025Mobile-Agent-v3: Fundamental Agents for GUI Automation21 Aug
  4. 2025Quick on the Uptake: Eliciting Implicit Intents from Human Demonstrations for Personalized Mobile-Use Agents12 Aug
  5. 2025Mirage-1: Augmenting and Updating GUI Agent with Hierarchical Multimodal Skills12 Jun
  6. 2025FingerTip 20K: A Benchmark for Proactive and Personalized Mobile LLM Agents9 Jun
  7. 2025GUI-explorer: Autonomous Exploration and Mining of Transition-aware Knowledge for GUI Agent22 May
  8. 2025OS-Kairos: Adaptive Interaction for MLLM-Powered GUI Agents26 Feb
  9. 2024OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents30 Oct
  10. 2024SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation19 Oct
  11. 2024On the Effects of Data Scale on UI Control Agents6 Jun
  12. 2024OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments11 Apr

Other references · 19

  1. 2025Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Modelscited by 1,261
  2. 2024AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agentscited by 468
  3. 2025MemAgent: Reshaping Long-Context LLM with Multi-Conv RL-based Memory Agentcited by 246
  4. 2025MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agentscited by 238
  5. 2024GUIOdyssey: A Comprehensive Dataset for Cross-App GUI Navigation on Mobile Devicescited by 194
  6. 2023Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulationcited by 99
  7. 2024Optimus-1: Hybrid Multimodal Memory Empowered Agents Excel in Long-Horizon Taskscited by 84
  8. 2025CogVLA: Cognition-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Model via Instruction-Driven Routing & Sparsificationcited by 74
  9. 2023Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation and Beyondcited by 56
  10. 2025ContextAgent: Context-Aware Proactive LLM Agents with Open-World Sensory Perceptionscited by 45
  11. 2025PersonaX: A Recommendation Agent Oriented User Modeling Framework for Long Behavior Sequencecited by 33
  12. 2024Token-level Correlation-guided Compression for Efficient Multimodal Document Understandingcited by 22
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  1. 2025FALCON: Resolving Visual Redundancy and Fragmentation in High-resolution Multimodal Large Language Models via Visual Registerscited by 20
  2. 2025H-GAR: A Hierarchical Interaction Framework via Goal-Driven Observation-Action Refinement for Robotic Manipulationcited by 17
  3. 2025LettinGo: Explore User Profile Generation for Recommendation Systemcited by 11
  4. 2025PUMA: Layer-Pruned Language Model for Efficient Unified Multimodal Retrieval with Modality-Adaptive Learningcited by 11
  5. 2025Navi-plus: Managing Ambiguous GUI Navigation Tasks with Follow-up Questionscited by 8
  6. 2025Score the Steps, Not Just the Goal: VLM-Based Subgoal Evaluation for Robotic Manipulationcited by 8
  7. 2025Galaxy: A Cognition-Centered Framework for Proactive, Privacy-Preserving, and Self-Evolving LLM Agentscited by 2

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  1. 2026KnowU-Bench: Towards Interactive, Proactive, and Personalized Mobile Agent Evaluationcited by 21
  2. 2026Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directionscited by 14
  3. 2026DeltaVLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variationcited by 10
  4. 2026ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulationcited by 6
  5. 2026π-Bench: Evaluating Proactive Personal Assistant Agents in Long-Horizon Workflowscited by 6
  6. 2026Ask Now, Use Later: Benchmarking the Proactivity Gap in Long-Lived LLM Agentscited by 2
  7. 2026Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluationcited by 2
  8. 2026Software Engineering for and with GUI Agentcited by 1
  9. 2026UniMPA: A Unified Memory-Prediction-Action Model via Action-Grounded Transition Modelingcited by 1
  10. 2026From Correctness to Preference: A Framework for Personalized Agentic Reinforcement Learningcited by 0
  11. 2026PersonaTrail: Benchmarking Personalized Web Agents through Browsing Trailscited by 0
  12. 2026LookAgain: Closed-Loop GUI Grounding with Visually Grounded Reflectioncited by 0
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  1. 2026PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Taskscited by 0
  2. 2026Inferring Hidden User Models from the Behavior of Personalized LLM Agentscited by 0
  3. 2026Learning to Use Imagination: Progress-Conditioned Future Utilization for World Action Modelscited by 0
  4. 2026Relevance Does Not Imply Applicability: Experience Activation for Personal GUI Agentscited by 0

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  5. 2026From Profiling to Synthesis: Benchmarking Implicit Behavioral Alignment in Personalized LLM Agents
  6. 2026Same Tasks, Different Apps: Why Mobile GUI Agents Fail to Generalize?
  7. 2026Me-Agent: A Personalized Mobile Agent with Two-Level User Habit Learning for Enhanced Interaction
  8. 2026Mobile GUI Agent Privacy Personalization with Trajectory Induced Preference Optimization