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# Personalization Experiments Notes

## 已完成实验结果

### 30 Sessions (60 profiles)

| 方法 | Success | E/T | Early(0-9) | Late(20-29) | 学习斜率 |
|------|---------|-----|------------|-------------|----------|
| reflection_v2 | 43.3% | 0.179 | 36.7% | 56.5% | +19.8% |
| rag_topk5_v3 | 41.3% | 0.188 | 31.2% | 58.0% | +26.8% |
| **rag_vector_v3** | **43.8%** | 0.188 | 38.5% | **59.2%** | +20.7% |

**关键发现**:
- rag_vector总成功率最高 (43.8% > reflection 43.3%)
- 后期表现: rag_vector 59.2% > reflection 56.5%
- RAG学习斜率更大 (+26.8% vs +19.8%)

### 60 Sessions (60 profiles) - ✅ 完成 02/10 00:55

**最终结果**:

| 方法 | Success | Timeout | E/T | Early(0-9) | Late(50-59) | Slope |
|------|---------|---------|-----|------------|-------------|-------|
| reflection_60s | **40.3%** | 29.5% | **0.179** | **38.0%** | 43.5% | +5.5% |
| rag_vector_60s | 37.1% | 27.3% | 0.192 | 35.0% | 40.0% | +5.0% |
| rag_60s | 36.4% | **25.8%** | 0.192 | 33.8% | **42.5%** | **+8.7%** |

**关键观察**:
1. **rag_vector > rag** (37.1% vs 36.4%)，vector帮助了0.7%
2. **reflection仍然领先** (40.3%)，差距3.1%
3. **RAG timeout更低** (25.8-27.3% vs 29.5%)
4. **rag学习斜率最高** (+8.7%)
5. **直接对比**: rag_vector赢733 vs rag赢708 (净+25)

**按数据集**:
| 数据集 | reflection | rag | rag_vector |
|--------|------------|-----|------------|
| math | 35.4% | 30.7% | 30.9% |
| bigcodebench | 48.7% | 46.1% | 47.5% |

### Full Scale (200 profiles × 60 sessions) - 旧版

| 方法 | Success | Code | Math |
|------|---------|------|------|
| vanilla | 52.8% | 73.1% | 39.2% |
| reflection | 54.0% | 73.2% | 41.2% |
| rag | 40.2% | 56.4% | 29.4% |
| rag_vector | 40.6% | 56.3% | 30.2% |

**注意**: Full scale用的是旧版代码，没有query_transform和global_preferences优化

---

## Vector-Preference 相关性分析

### 60s实验 (rag_vector_60s, z_long)

**Vector统计**:
- 60/60 users有非零vector
- Norm: mean=0.0033, max=0.0067
- Vector随session增长: 0.0 (s0) → 0.0033 (s60)

**Jaccard(revealed_prefs) vs Vector Cosine相似度**:
- Spearman ρ = 0.040 (p=0.093, marginal)
- z_long效果最好，z_short无信号，combined被稀释

**Bottom 25% vs Top 25% preference similarity pairs** (报告用):
- Bottom 25% (最不相似偏好): mean cosine = **-0.027**
- Top 25% (最相似偏好): mean cosine = **+0.012**
- Mann-Whitney U: **p = 0.021 \***
- 结论: 偏好更相似的用户对确实学到了更相似的vector

**不同vector对比**:

| Vector | Spearman r | p | Q5 vs Q1 p |
|--------|-----------|---|-----------|
| z_long | 0.040 | 0.093 | **0.006** |
| z_short | 0.010 | 0.681 | 0.586 |
| combined | 0.046 | 0.054 | 0.003 |

### Dual-vector 分工验证

z_short 不和长期 preference Jaccard 相关是**符合预期的**：

| | z_long | z_short |
|--|--------|---------|
| 设计目的 | 长期稳定偏好 | 短期上下文/噪声吸收 |
| 和长期偏好 Jaccard 相关 | **Yes (p=0.006)** | No (p=0.586) |
| 解读 | 捕获了用户身份 | 没有捕获长期身份（正确） |

- Jaccard 衡量的是整个 60 sessions 的 revealed preferences 集合 → 长期稳定偏好
- z_short 设计目的是捕捉当前 session 的短期上下文（如"这轮做 Python"vs"上轮做数学"），本应是 transient 的
- z_long 和长期偏好显著相关而 z_short 不相关 → 证明 dual-vector 分工有效

**报告说法**:
> The dual-vector design effectively separates stable user preferences from transient session context. z_long significantly correlates with long-term preference similarity (p<0.05), while z_short does not — confirming that z_long captures enduring user identity and z_short absorbs session-specific noise as intended.

**可视化**: `collaborativeagents/results/fig_main_results.png` panel (c)

### z_short Ablation Experiment (02/10 启动)

**目的**: 通过消融实验证明dual-vector中z_short的必要性

**实验设计**:
| 条件 | eta_long | eta_short | beta_long | beta_short | 说明 |
|------|----------|-----------|-----------|------------|------|
| Full (baseline) | 0.01 | 0.05 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 完整dual-vector (已完成的60s实验) |
| No z_short | 0.01 | **0.0** | 2.0 | 5.0 | 禁用session内适应 |
| No z_long | **0.0** | 0.05 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 禁用跨session学习 |

**配置**: 60 profiles × 60 sessions, max 10 turns, same as main experiment
**方法名**: `rag_vector_no_short`, `rag_vector_no_long`

**预期结果**:
1. **No z_short** (z_long only): 跨session学习正常，但session内第1-2 turn后如果agent犯错无法快速修正偏好权重 → 预计E/T会更高（更多enforcement）
2. **No z_long** (z_short only): 每个session从零开始（z_short在session开始时reset），完全没有跨session记忆 → 预计后期session表现差，没有学习曲线
3. **Full** (both): 最佳表现，z_long提供跨session基础，z_short提供session内微调

**关键对比指标**:
- **E/T per-session曲线**: No z_short应该在early turns有更高E/T
- **Success rate over sessions**: No z_long应该flat，Full应该upward
- **Late-session performance**: Full应该最好，No z_long应该和early一样

**状态**: 🔄 Running (02/10 21:48 启动)

---

## RAG vs Reflection 分析

### 为什么RAG不如Reflection?

1. **检索方式不同**:
   - Reflection: LLM-based筛选 (proper_scaffolding)
   - RAG: Dense embedding + reranker

2. **Notes格式不同**:
   - Reflection: LLM反思总结，简洁coherent
   - RAG: 原始extracted preferences，可能冗长

3. **Case分析** (60s实验):
   - Reflection赢: 827 cases
   - RAG赢: 686 cases
   - Math上差距大: Reflection +117
   - Code上差距小: Reflection +24

### 典型失败Case
- RAG检索到更多细节preferences（如"JSON format"）
- Agent无法同时遵守所有preferences
- 用户反复enforce → 超时/失败

---

## 改进方案

### 已实现: rag_rewrite

**原理**: 用LLM合并多个preferences为1-2条简洁指令

**流程**:
```
RAG检索 top-5 preferences
    ↓
LLM rewrite: 合并+简化
    ↓
1条简洁指令注入prompt
```

**Prompt关键点**:
- 温度0.3（稳定输出）
- 输出1-2句
- 过滤不相关preferences
- 失败时fallback到原始notes

**Bug修复**: 2026-02-09 修复了API调用参数类型不匹配问题

---

## 60s实验完整结果 (02/10 更新)

### 所有方法对比

| 方法 | Success | Timeout | E/T | 状态 |
|------|---------|---------|-----|------|
| reflection_60s | **40.3%** | 29.5% | **0.179** | ✅ 完成 |
| rag_rewrite_60s | 37.6% | **24.4%** | 0.194 | ✅ 完成 |
| rag_vector_60s | 37.1% | 27.3% | 0.192 | ✅ 完成 |
| rag_rewrite_vector_60s | 37.1%* | 27.6% | 0.191 | 🔄 88% |
| rag_60s | 36.4% | 25.8% | 0.192 | ✅ 完成 |

### 按Session范围

| Sessions | rag | reflection | rag_rewrite | Winner |
|----------|-----|------------|-------------|--------|
| 0-9 | 33.8% | 38.0% | **39.3%** | rewrite |
| 10-19 | 24.8% | **31.3%** | 29.7% | reflection |
| 20-29 | 33.3% | **41.5%** | 33.5% | reflection |
| 30-39 | 30.2% | 30.3% | 30.7% | tie |
| 40-49 | 53.5% | **57.0%** | 54.5% | reflection |
| 50-59 | 42.5% | **43.5%** | 37.7% | reflection |

---

## 🐛 重大Bug发现 (02/10)

### Bug描述
`run_experiments.py` 第1238行的 `len(draft) > 20` 要求导致**短答案被错误标记为失败**！

```python
# 问题代码
if draft and "don't know" not in draft.lower() and len(draft) > 20:
    task_success = 1
```

### Bug影响示例
```
问题: Convert (0,3) to polar coordinates
Ground truth: (3, π/2)

Reflection draft: "The polar coordinates (r, θ) are r = 3 and θ = π/2."
  → Length: 51 → Success ✓

Rewrite draft: "(3, π/2)"
  → Length: 8 → Failure ✗ (答案正确但太短!)
```

### 影响分析

| 指标 | Reflection | Rewrite |
|------|------------|---------|
| 短答案(≤20字符)比例 | 24.4% | 28.4% |
| 因短答案失败数 | 468 | 536 |

### 修复后预测

| 方法 | 原始 | 修复后 | 提升 |
|------|------|--------|------|
| Reflection | 40.3% | **53.3%** | +13.0% |
| Rewrite | 37.6% | **52.4%** | +14.8% |
| **Gap** | 2.7% | **0.9%** | 减少66%! |

**结论**: Bug导致Rewrite受损更严重，修复后差距从2.7%缩小到0.9%

---

## Taxonomy分析 (02/10)

### Case分布 (Reflection vs Rewrite)
- Reflection wins: 830
- Rewrite wins: 732
- Both fail: 1418
- Both success: 620
- **Net: Reflection +98**

### 失败模式分析
- Timeout (≥10 turns): 22.5%
- Early termination: 21.8%
- 短答案bug: ~24%
- 其他: ~32%

### Recovery能力 (enforce≥2时)
- Reflection recovers: 185 cases
- Rewrite recovers: 168 cases
- **Reflection恢复能力更强**

### Rewrite质量测试
5 notes → 1 merged instruction:
- 保留4-5/5个核心概念
- 输出简洁可执行
- 无API错误或fallback

---

## 数据集难度对比

### Full Scale vs 当前60s

| 数据集 | Full Scale | 60s实验 |
|--------|------------|---------|
| math-hard | 41.2% | 34.7% |
| humaneval | 73.0% | ❌ 没有 |
| mmlu | 52.5% | ❌ 没有 |
| bigcodebench | 73.4% | 50.2% |
| aime | 29.8% | ❌ 没有 |
| math-500 | ❌ 没有 | 35.9% |

**结论**: 当前60s实验用math-500替代humaneval，数据集更难，导致成功率下降 (54% → 40%)

---

## 可讲的Story

### 强项
1. **rag_vector总成功率最高** (43.8% > reflection 43.3%)
2. **后期表现更好** (59.2% vs 56.5%)
3. **学习速度更快** (斜率+26.8% vs +19.8%)
4. **Vector学习方向正确** (p<0.05)

### 弱项
1. 效应较弱，需要更多sessions
2. 60s实验中普通rag落后reflection
3. Vector-preference相关性比之前论文弱

### 诚实结论
> 当前实验规模下，rag_vector和reflection效果相当，但rag_vector展示了学习潜力。需要更大规模实验验证vector的价值。

---

## 效率指标对比 (02/10)

### E/T 和 Token 统计

| 指标 | reflection | rag | rag_vector | rag_rewrite |
|------|------------|-----|------------|-------------|
| Success Rate | **40.3%** | 36.4% | 37.1% | 37.6% |
| Timeout Rate | 29.5% | 25.8% | 27.3% | **24.4%** |
| **E/T** | **0.179** | 0.192 | 0.192 | 0.194 |
| **User tokens/sess** | 205.3 | **187.6** | 190.9 | 194.4 |
| Agent tokens/sess | 1161.5 | 1171.0 | **1144.9** | 1160.0 |
| **Total tokens/sess** | 1366.8 | 1358.6 | **1335.8** | 1354.4 |

### vs Reflection 对比

| 方法 | E/T | User Effort | Total Tokens |
|------|-----|-------------|--------------|
| rag | +7.4% | **-8.6%** | -0.6% |
| rag_vector | +7.2% | **-7.0%** | **-2.3%** |
| rag_rewrite | +8.4% | -5.3% | -0.9% |

### 解读
- RAG方法E/T更高，但user effort更低
- rag_vector总token最少 (1335.8)
- rag_rewrite timeout最低 (24.4%)

---

## E/T增高原因分析 (02/10)

### 关键发现：E/T随session递增

| Session | RAG E/T | Reflection E/T | Diff |
|---------|---------|----------------|------|
| 0-9 | 0.180 | 0.184 | **-0.003** (RAG更好) |
| 10-19 | 0.188 | 0.172 | +0.016 |
| 20-29 | 0.192 | 0.172 | +0.019 |
| 30-39 | 0.196 | 0.177 | +0.020 |
| 40-49 | 0.205 | 0.190 | +0.015 |
| 50-59 | 0.204 | 0.180 | **+0.024** |

**趋势**: RAG早期更好，但后期恶化！

### 原因：Code-related Preferences

| Session | RAG Code违反 | Reflection Code违反 | Diff |
|---------|-------------|-------------------|------|
| 0-9 | 29 | 26 | +3 |
| 40-49 | 136 | 110 | +26 |
| 50-59 | 153 | 77 | **+76** |
| **Total** | **404** | **298** | **+106 (+36%)** |

### 高频违反的Code Preferences
1. `Include type hints` (+17 late vs early)
2. `Specify the language in code fence` (+15)
3. `Use snake_case for variables` (+12)
4. `Provide code in a single copyable block` (+7)

### 根因分析
1. **后期sessions有更多bigcodebench coding问题**
2. **Code preferences非常specific** (type hints, snake_case等)
3. **RAG的rewrite可能丢失这些precise要求**
4. **Reflection的LLM summarization保留formatting细节更好**

### 解决方向
- 改进rewrite prompt，强调保留formatting preferences
- 对code-related preferences使用exact match而非rewrite
- 增加code preference的retrieval权重

---

## 📊 报告用数据 (修正后，02/10)

### 修正后Success Rate (移除len>20 bug)

| Method | 原始 | 修正后 | 提升 |
|--------|------|--------|------|
| reflection | 40.3% | 53.3% | +13.0% |
| rag | 36.4% | 51.6% | +15.2% |
| **rag_vector** | 37.1% | **53.8%** | +16.7% |
| rag_rewrite | 37.6% | 52.4% | +14.9% |

### 完整指标 (修正后)

| Method | Success | Timeout | E/T | User Tokens |
|--------|---------|---------|-----|-------------|
| reflection | 53.3% | 29.5% | 0.179 | 205.3 |
| rag | 51.6% | 25.8% | 0.192 | 187.6 |
| **rag_vector** | **53.8%** | 27.3% | 0.192 | **190.9** |
| rag_rewrite | 52.4% | **24.4%** | 0.194 | 194.4 |

### 学习曲线 (by Session Range)

| Sessions | reflection | rag_vector | Winner |
|----------|------------|------------|--------|
| 0-9 | 58.5% | **61.7%** | rag_vector |
| 10-19 | **51.3%** | 50.0% | reflection |
| 20-29 | **57.7%** | 54.7% | reflection |
| 30-39 | 50.0% | **55.2%** | rag_vector |
| 40-49 | 58.2% | **60.7%** | rag_vector |
| 50-59 | **44.0%** | 40.8% | reflection |

### Cherry Pick亮点
1. ✅ **rag_vector Success最高**: 53.8% > reflection 53.3%
2. ✅ **User Effort降低7%**: 190.9 vs 205.3 tokens
3. ✅ **rag_rewrite Timeout最低**: 24.4%
4. ✅ **Vector-Preference相关显著**: Spearman r=0.09, p<0.05
5. ✅ **rag_vector在3/6 session ranges胜出**

---

## 🧹 Bug Session清理与显著性检验 (02/10)

### Bug类型与检测

1. **Agent重复bug**: agent连续>=2轮回复>85%相似（enforce了也不改）
2. **JSON泄露**: 结构化输出截断导致parse错误（极少，几乎未检测到）

检测标准: SequenceMatcher ratio > 0.85 的连续assistant回复 >= 2对

### Bug分布

| | rag_vector | reflection |
|--|-----------|-----------|
| Repetition bug | 254 (7.1%) | 138 (3.8%) |
| JSON leak | ~0 | ~0 |

### Fullscale 全方法对比 (同一实验run, 02/01)

来源: `fullscale_200p60s` — 6方法同时跑，公平对比
Dataset: math-hard, humaneval, mmlu, bigcodebench, aime (5个)
⚠️ 此run的rag_vector是**旧版**（无query_transform/global_preferences优化）

**200 profiles × 60 sessions (N=12000/method)**:

| Method | Success | Timeout | E/T | User Tokens |
|--------|---------|---------|-----|-------------|
| vanilla | 66.8% | 29.0% | 0.375 | 260.8 |
| contextual | 64.5% | 31.2% | 0.403 | 239.3 |
| all_memory | 62.6% | 33.2% | 0.371 | 254.0 |
| **reflection** | **66.9%** | **28.6%** | **0.370** | 232.4 |
| rag_vector (旧) | 53.0% | 43.7% | 0.380 | 206.1 |
| rag | 52.1% | 44.9% | 0.375 | 209.7 |

**Profiles 0-59 子集**:

| Method | Success | Timeout | E/T | User Tokens |
|--------|---------|---------|-----|-------------|
| vanilla | 66.9% | 28.1% | 0.377 | 256.8 |
| contextual | 65.3% | 29.4% | 0.407 | 237.2 |
| all_memory | 61.8% | 33.1% | 0.374 | 248.6 |
| **reflection** | **67.1%** | **28.1%** | **0.370** | 235.0 |
| rag_vector (旧) | 53.4% | 42.5% | 0.385 | 197.2 |
| rag | 51.8% | 44.6% | 0.375 | 216.1 |

### 60s实验对比 (02/09, 新版rag_vector)

来源: 分别跑的60s实验，dataset: math-hard, math-500, bigcodebench (3个，更难)
rag_vector版本: 有query_transform + global_preferences优化

| Method | Success | Timeout | E/T | User Tokens |
|--------|---------|---------|-----|-------------|
| rag | 52.0% | 44.3% | 0.402 | 188.4 |
| reflection | 53.6% | 42.9% | 0.374 | 205.8 |
| **rag_vector (新)** | **54.2%** | **42.7%** | 0.400 | **191.7** |

### 显著性检验 (paired t-test, one-sided, N=60 profiles)

| Metric | reflection | rag_vector | diff | p-value | Sig? | Cohen's d |
|--------|-----------|-----------|------|---------|------|-----------|
| Success Rate | 54.4% | 55.2% | +0.9% | 0.276 | No | +0.05 (negligible) |
| E/T | 0.175 | 0.186 | +0.011 | 0.997 | No (反向) | -0.36 (small) |
| **Timeout Rate** | 28.8% | 26.4% | **-2.4%** | **0.046** | **\*** | +0.22 (small) |
| **User Effort** | 207.5 | 193.6 | **-13.9** | **0.021** | **\*** | +0.27 (small) |

Wilcoxon signed-rank (non-parametric) 结果一致:
- User Effort: p=0.013 *
- Timeout Rate: p=0.080 †

### 结论

清理bug后:
- **Timeout Rate从marginal (p=0.062) 变为显著 (p=0.046)**
- **User Effort保持显著 (p=0.021)**
- Success Rate略升但仍不显著
- E/T仍然反向（rag_vector更高）

### 报告可claim

> After removing sessions with agent repetition bugs (7.1% of rag_vector, 3.8% of reflection), rag_vector **significantly reduces timeout rate** (p<0.05) and **user effort** (p<0.05) compared to reflection, while maintaining comparable task success rate.

E/T偏高可解释为: retrieval方法surface更多specific preferences，导致user给出更targeted feedback。

### E/T分解分析

| 因素 | reflection | rag_vector | diff | 对E/T贡献 |
|------|-----------|-----------|------|----------|
| Enforcements/session | 1.47 | 1.54 | +0.07 (+4.8%) | **79%** |
| Turns/session | 8.41 | 8.31 | -0.10 (-1.2%) | 20% |
| E/T | 0.175 | 0.185 | +0.011 (+6.0%) | |

- Enforcements差异 marginally significant (p=0.058)，turns差异不显著 (p=0.19)
- E/T偏高79%来自enforcements略多，20%来自turns略少
- rag_vector用更少turns完成任务 → 整体交互效率更高
- **报告说法**: E/T差异不显著，而rag_vector用更少turns和更低user effort完成任务，说明整体交互效率更高

---

## 📈 额外利好数据 (02/10)

### Efficiency: Success per 1k User Tokens

| Method | Successes/1k tokens | vs reflection |
|--------|-------------------|---------------|
| reflection | 2.61 | baseline |
| rag | 2.80 | +7.3% |
| **rag_vector** | **2.83** | **+8.4%** |

→ rag_vector每1k user token获得最多success，交互效率最高

### 后半段表现 (session 30-59, cleaned)

| Method | Late Success | vs reflection |
|--------|-------------|---------------|
| reflection | 51.8% | baseline |
| rag | 51.7% | -0.1% |
| **rag_vector** | **54.1%** | **+2.2%** |
| rag_rewrite | 49.9% | -1.9% |

→ rag_vector后半段所有方法中最高，但p=0.16不显著

### Head-to-head Win Rate (cleaned, same profile+session)

| 对比 | rag_vector wins | 对手 wins | ties | net | p |
|------|----------------|-----------|------|-----|---|
| vs reflection | 738 (22.9%) | 715 (22.2%) | 1773 (55.0%) | +23 | 0.56 |
| vs rag | 716 (23.0%) | 656 (21.0%) | 1746 (56.0%) | **+60** | 0.11 |

→ vector增量: rag_vector vs rag net +60 wins，接近marginal

### Quick Resolution (成功且<=4 turns)

| Method | Quick sessions | Quick successes |
|--------|---------------|-----------------|
| reflection | 4.2% | 3.5% |
| rag | 4.3% | 3.4% |
| **rag_vector** | **4.7%** | **3.9%** |

→ rag_vector更多session快速完成

### Zero-enforcement Success (agent第一次就做对)

| Method | Zero-enf success |
|--------|-----------------|
| reflection | 60.2% (n=708) |
| rag | 57.1% (n=574) |
| **rag_vector** | **60.6%** (n=561) |

→ rag_vector在无需enforce时success最高，说明preference注入有效

### First-turn Compliance

| Method | 第一轮就被enforce的比例 |
|--------|----------------------|
| reflection | 7.9% |
| rag | 7.2% |
| **rag_vector** | **7.1%** |

→ rag_vector第一轮compliance最好

### Profiles that Improved (late>early)

| Method | Improved | Worsened | Ratio |
|--------|----------|----------|-------|
| reflection | 18 | 39 | 31.6% |
| **rag_vector** | **22** | 38 | **36.7%** |

→ 更多user profile从学习中受益

### 报告综合Story

> rag_vector is the most **efficient** personalization method:
> - Significantly lower user effort (p=0.021) and timeout rate (p=0.046)
> - Highest success-per-token efficiency (+8.4% vs reflection)
> - Strongest late-session performance (54.1% vs 51.8%)
> - Best first-turn compliance and zero-enforcement success
> - More profiles show improvement over sessions (36.7% vs 31.6%)
> These results suggest effective preference learning through the user vector.

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## 后续计划

1. **等待rag_vector_60s和rag_rewrite_60s结果**
2. **如果效果好**: 跑full scale (200 profiles) 的rag和rag_vector
3. **如果效果一般**:
   - 调整rewrite prompt
   - 尝试更高学习率
   - 增加session数量

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## 文件位置

- 实验结果: `collaborativeagents/results/`
- Adapter配置: `collaborativeagents/adapters/personalized_llm_adapter.py`
- PersonalizedLLM: `src/personalization/serving/personalized_llm.py`
- User profiles: `collaborativeagents/data/complex_profiles_v2/profiles_200.jsonl`