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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

Preference alignment is a critical step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) useful and aligned with (human) preferences. Existing approaches such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback or Direct Preference Optimization typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lucio La Cava , Andrea Tagarelli

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong implicit personalization ability, yet most existing approaches treat this behavior as a black box, relying on prompt engineering or fine tuning on user data. In this work, we adopt a mechanistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Weixu Zhang , Ye Yuan , Changjiang Han , Yuxing Tian , Zipeng Sun , Linfeng Du , Jikun Kang , Hong Kang , Xue Liu , Haolun Wu

Facilitated by large language models (LLMs), personalized text generation has become a rapidly growing research direction. Most existing studies focus on designing specialized models for a particular domain, or they require fine-tuning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Cheng Li , Mingyang Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei , Weize Kong , Michael Bendersky

Despite recent progress, reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuning of diffusion models often struggles with generalization, composability, and robustness against reward hacking. Recent studies have explored prompt refinement as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Suhyeon Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) aims to align outputs with human preferences, and personalized alignment further adapts models to individual users. This relies on personalized reward models that capture user-specific preferences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongru Cai , Yongqi Li , Tiezheng Yu , Fengbin Zhu , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Wenjie Li

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

Due to their architecture and vast pre-training data, large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong text classification performance. However, LLM output - here, the category assigned to a text - depends heavily on the wording of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kylie L. Anglin , Stephanie Milan , Brittney Hernandez , Claudia Ventura

Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

Personality detection automatically identifies an individual's personality from various data sources, such as social media texts. However, as the parameter scale of language models continues to grow, the computational cost becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lingzhi Shen , Yunfei Long , Xiaohao Cai , Guanming Chen , Imran Razzak , Shoaib Jameel

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to automate software engineering tasks, including the generation of UML class diagrams from natural language descriptions. While prior work demonstrates that LLMs can produce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rabia Iftikhar , Andreas Rausch

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown exceptional language generation capabilities in response to text-based prompts. However, controlling the direction of generation via textual prompts has been challenging, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Zining Zhu , Jonathan Rose , Frank Rudzicz

With the advent of foundation models, prompt tuning has positioned itself as an important technique for directing model behaviors and eliciting desired responses. Prompt tuning regards selecting appropriate keywords included into the input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yunseon Choi , Sangmin Bae , Seonghyun Ban , Minchan Jeong , Chuheng Zhang , Lei Song , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian , Kee-Eung Kim

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

The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are routinely evaluated by other LLMs trained to predict human preferences. This framework--known as LLM-as-a-judge--is highly scalable and relatively low cost. However, it is also vulnerable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lisa Alazraki , Tan Yi-Chern , Jon Ander Campos , Maximilian Mozes , Marek Rei , Max Bartolo

User modeling characterizes individuals through their preferences and behavioral patterns to enable personalized simulation and generation with Large Language Models (LLMs) in contemporary approaches. However, existing methods, whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Liang Wang , Xinyi Mou , Xiaoyou Liu , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

We introduce DRESS, a novel approach for generating stylized large language model (LLM) responses through representation editing. Existing methods like prompting and fine-tuning are either insufficient for complex style adaptation or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Xinyu Ma , Yifeng Xu , Yang Lin , Tianlong Wang , Xu Chu , Xin Gao , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

Personalization in Large Language Models (LLMs) often relies on user-specific soft prompts. However, these prompts become obsolete when the foundation model is upgraded, necessitating costly, full-scale retraining. To overcome this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ziyi Zhao , Chongming Gao , Yang Zhang , Haoyan Liu , Weinan Gan , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Fuli Feng

Content creators often aim to create personalized images using personal subjects that go beyond the capabilities of conventional text-to-image models. Additionally, they may want the resulting image to encompass a specific location, style,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Moab Arar , Andrey Voynov , Amir Hertz , Omri Avrahami , Shlomi Fruchter , Yael Pritch , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir

Personalized outfit recommendation remains a complex challenge, demanding both fashion compatibility understanding and trend awareness. This paper presents a novel framework that harnesses the expressive power of large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Najmeh Forouzandehmehr , Nima Farrokhsiar , Ramin Giahi , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan