arXiv:2608. 09507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language user preferences provide an interpretable interface for LLM personalization.
By Yuting Liu, Wei Wu, Jianzhe Zhao, Guibing Guo
arXiv:2609.00251v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As people increasingly interact with LLM assistants in daily life, continually adapting to individual preferences has become essential for effective lo...
By EunJeong Hwang, Kushan Mitra, Dan Zhang, Hannah Kim, Estevam Hruschka
HyperTrace is a training‑free framework that personalizes large language models by tracing latent user preferences online. It maintains interpretable natural‑language hypotheses about short‑term intent and long‑term preferences, updating them with an SMC‑style reweighting process driven by an LLM‑based surrogate choice model. Experiments on PRISM and PersonaMem‑v2 demonstrate that HyperTrace improves response alignment, preference prediction, and profile consistency compared to strong online baselines.
By Jianzhi Shen, Keyu Mao, Minghao Shao, Chuanyang Jin, Yusong Wang, Ailiang Lin, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura, Tianmin Shu, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2606. 06614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite growing interest, most evaluations of large language models' (LLMs') personalization abilities have relied on synthetic data.
By Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August
The paper introduces an action‑on‑item schema that pairs interaction roles with content embeddings, enabling a shared update mechanism across different user history types such as movies, news, and dialogue. It demonstrates theoretical properties like invariance to relabeling and bounded state changes, and presents the Multi‑Timescale State Hypothesis (MTSH) implemented in PerTIDE. Experiments on PENS, MovieLens, and MIND datasets show that a frozen source‑trained core outperforms random baselines and that PerTIDE achieves significant MRR gains over comparable models.
By Parthiv Chatterjee, Kashish Kanjaria, Vashisth Purani, Sourish Dasgupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2510. 05342v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a simple and effective method for aligning large language models.
By Hyung Gyu Rho
arXiv:2606. 21097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying highly capable personalized conversational agents in resource-constrained or privacy-sensitive environments remains a significant challenge.
By Junfeng Liu, Christopher T. Symons, Ranga Raju Vatsavai
arXiv:2608. 05813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing language models (LMs) to individual user preferences is essential for aligning responses with diverse goals and backgrounds.
By Gihoon Kim, Jeyoung Lee, Suhan Woo, Sekwon Oh, Minsu Jeon, Hyounsoo Han, Euntai Kim
arXiv:2608.28833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While Large language models (LLMs) incorporate user personalization signals to improve usability and helpfulness, they increasingly shift from providin...
By Yumeng Wang, Yuchen Wu, Cheng Qian, Zhiyuan Fan, Hyeonjeong Ha, Shujin Wu, Jiayu Liu, Heng Ji, Ge Wang
The paper introduces HiPS, a hierarchical strategy co‑evolution framework for memory‑augmented agents that separates memory management into a globally shared foundation and a user‑specific adaptive tier. HiPS uses a Universal Strategy to capture shared principles from cross‑persona trajectories, Persona Delta Distillation to create tailored rules for users deviating from general patterns, and Cross‑Level Rule Flow to dynamically adjust the boundary between global and personal rules. Experiments show that this approach consistently outperforms existing memory‑augmented baselines.
By Yupeng Han, Shuochen Liu, Kai Zhang, Ze Liu, Zhihong Pan, Xianquan Wang
COPE (Continual Optimization with Personalized embedding and self-Evaluation) is a new framework that continually personalizes large language models using learnable user embeddings and self‑evaluation to generate proxy rewards. It integrates preference capture, self‑evaluation calibration, and personalized response optimization into a single update step, allowing continuous model updates even when explicit user feedback is sparse. Experiments demonstrate that COPE outperforms both training‑free and training‑based baselines, remains complementary to Retrieval‑Augmented Prompting, and shows reliable self‑evaluation, meaningful preference patterns, stable general capabilities, and robustness to shifting preferences and alternative evaluators.
By Ruike Cao, Fugen Yao, Liang Dong, Jian Xu, Guanjun Jiang, Li Xiao
arXiv:2602. 12394v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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 preferences and latent constraints of individual users.
By Yuchen Ma, Yue Huang, Wenjie Wang, Xiaonan Luo, Xiangliang Zhang, Stefan Feuerriegel