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TriggerBench

General AIKnowledge & ReasoningKristenZHANG (GitHub)

TriggerBench is a benchmark for evaluating prospective memory (PM) in LLMs, spanning five dimensions across daily assistant and professional workflow scenarios, with matched retrospective memory (RM) controls, contrastive variants, and overloaded triggers, measuring proactive recall, false-alarm rate, and attentional robustness.

Released
2026-06-22
Readiness
Runnable
Primary field
General AI

Why it matters

Existing LLM evaluations focus on retrospective memory via explicit queries, leaving prospective memory – the ability to spontaneously act on latent constraints – unevaluated. TriggerBench provides a granular measurement of PM capabilities, revealing a precision-recall trade-off, attentional fragility, and a decay with context length that RM does not exhibit, informing deployment decisions for long interactive applications.

Motivation

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in long interactions, existing evaluations focus predominantly on retrospective memory (RM) via explicit queries.

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