Training-free pipeline: three LLM passes extract signals from history, consolidate them for dataset and task, and build counterfactual links between traits and decision steps. The chronological 80% is used for profiles and 20% for discrimination, ranking, and rating across three datasets, five runs, and several models.
Users and interactions from MovieLens-1M, Amazon Books, and Amazon Beauty. There is no user study or direct psychological validation of profiles. APG4RecSim ranked first in 16 of 24 comparisons and second in 7. Under generalization it ranked first in 14 of 24 and second in 7. Popularity alone dominated random negatives and reduced the advantage under bias matching. The system showed descriptive robustness to position and popularity.
Results may exploit parametric memory or global popularity. Profiles are evaluated in isolation from the rest of the agent architecture. There is no real-user experiment. The PDF retains provisional ACM metadata. Counterfactual generation is stochastic and not validated as a psychological construct. It does not demonstrate that the profile represents real identity or personality. It does not validate replacing users in recommender evaluation. It does not fully separate individual preferences from model priors.