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While black-box large language models are widely deployed, they produce generic outputs that overlook individual user preferences. Current personalization methods are fundamentally limited to response-level personalization; they only match…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jieyong Kim , Tongyoung Kim , Soojin Yoon , Jaehyung Kim , Dongha Lee

Personalized LLMs can significantly enhance user experiences by tailoring responses to preferences such as helpfulness, conciseness, and humor. However, fine-tuning models to address all possible combinations of user preferences is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jinyan Su , Jinpeng Zhou , Claire Cardie , Wen Sun

Personalized prompting offers large opportunities for deploying large language models (LLMs) to diverse users, yet existing prompt optimization methods primarily focus on task-level optimization while largely overlooking user-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Wenjie Wang , Xiaonan Luo , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

This paper highlights the importance of personalization in large language models and introduces the LaMP benchmark -- a novel benchmark for training and evaluating language models for producing personalized outputs. LaMP offers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Alireza Salemi , Sheshera Mysore , Michael Bendersky , Hamed Zamani

POI representation learning plays a crucial role in handling tasks related to user mobility data. Recent studies have shown that enriching POI representations with multimodal information can significantly enhance their task performance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiawei Cheng , Jingyuan Wang , Yichuan Zhang , Jiahao Ji , Yuanshao Zhu , Zhibo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

Traditional Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems often lack transparency, interpretability, and scrutability due to their reliance on dense vector-based user embeddings. Furthermore, the cold-start problem -- where systems have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wilson Wongso , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Large language model (LLM) personalization aims to align model outputs with individuals' unique preferences and opinions. While recent efforts have implemented various personalization methods, a unified theoretical framework that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Nick Beauchamp , Lu Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into users' daily lives, driving a growing demand for personalized outputs. Prior work has primarily leveraged a user's own history, often overlooking inter-user differences that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Suyu Chen , Yimeng Bai , Yulong Huang , Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Zhang

Personalized product search (PPS) aims to retrieve products relevant to the given query considering user preferences within their purchase histories. Since large language models (LLM) exhibit impressive potential in content understanding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Beibei Zhang , Yanan Lu , Ruobing Xie , Zongyi Li , Siyuan Xing , Tongwei Ren , Fen Lin

Personalization and contextual coherence are two essential components in building effective persona-grounded dialogue systems. These aspects play a crucial role in enhancing user engagement and ensuring responses are more relevant and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Saleh Afzoon , MohammadHossein Ahmadi , Usman Naseem , Amin Beheshti

LLM-powered conversational assistants are often deployed in a one-size-fits-all manner, which fails to accommodate individual user preferences. Recently, LLM personalization -- tailoring models to align with specific user preferences -- has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Thibaut Thonet , Germán Kruszewski , Jos Rozen , Pierre Erbacher , Marc Dymetman

The future of conversational agents will provide users with personalized information responses. However, a significant challenge in developing models is the lack of large-scale dialogue datasets that span multiple sessions and reflect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hideaki Joko , Shubham Chatterjee , Andrew Ramsay , Arjen P. de Vries , Jeff Dalton , Faegheh Hasibi

For aligning large language models (LLMs), prior work has leveraged reinforcement learning via human feedback (RLHF) or variations of direct preference optimization (DPO). While DPO offers a simpler framework based on maximum likelihood…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Anirudhan Badrinath , Prabhat Agarwal , Jiajing Xu

Personalization in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important, aiming to align the LLMs' interactions, content, and recommendations with individual user preferences. Recent advances have highlighted effective prompt design by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhaoxuan Tan , Qingkai Zeng , Yijun Tian , Zheyuan Liu , Bing Yin , Meng Jiang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in solving recommendation tasks. With proven capabilities in understanding user preferences, LLM personalization has emerged as a critical area for providing tailored…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiarui Chen

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) is important for aligning outputs with diverse user preferences, yet existing methods struggle with flexibility and generalization. We propose CoPL (Collaborative Preference Learning), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngbin Choi , Seunghyuk Cho , Minjong Lee , MoonJeong Park , Yesong Ko , Jungseul Ok , Dongwoo Kim

Plain Language Summaries (PLS) aim to make research accessible to lay readers, but they are typically written in a one-size-fits-all style that ignores differences in readers' information needs and comprehension. In health contexts, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Joey Chan , Yikun Han , Jingyuan Chen , Samuel Fang , Lauren D. Gryboski , Alexandra Lee , Sheel Tanna , Qingqing Zhu , Zhiyong Lu , Lucy Lu Wang , Yue Guo

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have remarkably adapted to various downstream tasks. Nonetheless, their performance heavily depends on the specificity of the input text prompts, which requires skillful prompt template…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yingjun Du , Wenfang Sun , Cees G. M. Snoek

The holy grail of LLM personalization is a single LLM for each user, perfectly aligned with that user's preferences. However, maintaining a separate LLM per user is impractical due to constraints on compute, memory, and system complexity.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Cheol Woo Kim , Jai Moondra , Roozbeh Nahavandi , Andrew Perrault , Milind Tambe , Swati Gupta

Personalized large language models (LLMs) aim to tailor their outputs to user preferences. Recent advances in parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods have highlighted the effectiveness of adapting population-level LLMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Linhai Zhang , Jialong Wu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He