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As LLMs become capable of complex tasks, there is growing potential for personalized interactions tailored to the subtle and idiosyncratic preferences of the user. We present a public benchmark, PersonalLLM, focusing on adapting LLMs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Thomas P. Zollo , Andrew Wei Tung Siah , Naimeng Ye , Ang Li , Hongseok Namkoong

The key to personalized search is to build the user profile based on historical behaviour. To deal with the users who lack historical data, group based personalized models were proposed to incorporate the profiles of similar users when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yujia Zhou , Zhicheng Dou , Bingzheng Wei , Ruobing Xievand Ji-Rong Wen

Clustering traditionally aims to reveal a natural grouping structure within unlabeled data. However, this structure may not always align with users' preferences. In this paper, we propose a personalized clustering method that explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiwen Geng , Suyun Zhao , Yixin Yu , Borui Peng , Pan Du , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Mengdie Wang

Search personalization aims to tailor search results to each specific user based on the user's personal interests and preferences (i.e., the user profile). Recent research approaches to search personalization by modelling the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

Product search is one of the most popular methods for people to discover and purchase products on e-commerce websites. Because personal preferences often have an important influence on the purchase decision of each customer, it is intuitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Qingyao Ai , Daniel N. Hill , S. V. N. Vishwanathan , W. Bruce Croft

Traditional search engines usually provide identical search results for all users, overlooking individual preferences. To counter this limitation, personalized search has been developed to re-rank results based on user preferences derived…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yujia Zhou , Qiannan Zhu , Jiajie Jin , Zhicheng Dou

News recommendation and personalization is not a solved problem. People are growing concerned of their data being collected in excess in the name of personalization and the usage of it for purposes other than the ones they would think…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Reshma Narayanan Kutty , Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez , Igor Brigadir , Ernesto Diaz-Aviles

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success, but aligning them with human preferences remains a core challenge. As individuals have their own, multi-dimensional preferences, recent studies have explored multi-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Minhyeon Oh , Seungjoon Lee , Jungseul Ok

Existing approaches to recipe generation are unable to create recipes for users with culinary preferences but incomplete knowledge of ingredients in specific dishes. We propose a new task of personalized recipe generation to help these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Shuyang Li , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Recommender systems must balance personalization, diversity, and robustness to cold-start scenarios to remain effective in dynamic content environments. This paper introduces an adaptive, exploration-based recommendation framework that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Edoardo Bianchi

Algorithmic recourse aims to provide actionable recommendations that enable individuals to change unfavorable model outcomes, and prior work has extensively studied properties such as efficiency, robustness, and fairness. However, the role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Lena Marie Budde , Ayan Majumdar , Richard Uth , Markus Langer , Isabel Valera

We introduce a new metric for measuring how well a model personalizes to a user's specific preferences. We define personalization as a weighting between performance on user specific data and performance on a more general global dataset that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Reuben Brasher , Nat Roth , Justin Wagle

We address the problem of personalization in the context of eCommerce search. Specifically, we develop personalization ranking features that use in-session context to augment a generic ranker optimized for conversion and relevance. We use a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Grigor Aslanyan , Aritra Mandal , Prathyusha Senthil Kumar , Amit Jaiswal , Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan

Search results personalization has become an effective way to improve the quality of search engines. Previous studies extracted information such as past clicks, user topical interests, query click entropy and so on to tailor the original…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Songwei Ge , Zhicheng Dou , Zhengbao Jiang , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Lakshita Dodeja , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Erin Hedlund-Botti , Matthew Gombolay

Large language models (LLMs) have traditionally been aligned through one-size-fits-all approaches that assume uniform human preferences, fundamentally overlooking the diversity in user values and needs. This paper introduces a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Songhao Wu , Wei Wu , Rui Yan

Preference learning from human feedback has the ability to align generative models with the needs of end-users. Human feedback is costly and time-consuming to obtain, which creates demand for data-efficient query selection methods. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Guy Schacht , Ziyad Sheebaelhamd , Riccardo De Santi , Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

In the contemporary era, social media has its influence on people in making decisions. The proliferation of online reviews with diversified and verbose content often causes problems inaccurate decision making. Since online reviews have an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Muhmmad Al-Khiza'ay , Noora Alallaq , Qusay Alanoz , Adil Al-Azzawi , N. Maheswari

Large language model (LLM)-powered assistants have recently integrated memory mechanisms that record user preferences, leading to more personalized and user-aligned responses. However, irrelevant personalized memories are often introduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xueyang Feng , Weinan Gan , Xu Chen , Quanyu Dai , Yong Liu

Personalization is a critical task in modern intelligent systems, with applications spanning diverse domains, including interactions with large language models (LLMs). Recent advances in reasoning capabilities have significantly enhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Sichun Luo , Guanzhi Deng , Jian Xu , Xiaojie Zhang , Hanxu Hou , Linqi Song