arXiv:2608. 05246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing personalized LLM benchmarks primarily rely on textual personas or isolated behavioral signals, providing limited evaluation of cross-domain behavioral personalization, where responses must be grounded in heterogeneous daily-life activities.
By Jiahao Zhang, Yongzhi Tong, Zelin Fu, Pengde Zhao, Yanmei Jiang, Jiang Feng, Min Yang
arXiv:2609.00014v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Persona-driven techniques increasingly adapt large language models (LLMs) to diverse contexts. However, existing methods predominantly rely on rigid,...
By Yuxuan Li, Victor Zhong, Ehsan Kamalloo
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
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
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
The paper introduces TAP-PER, a prefix‑based framework that learns compact user representations for large language model personalization. By encoding user preferences into lightweight prefix embeddings and incorporating temporal signals, TAP‑PER avoids the need for heavy per‑user adapters or prompt‑serialized histories. Experiments on six LaMP tasks show that TAP‑PER outperforms both prompt‑based and model‑based baselines while using far fewer per‑user parameters, enabling scalable personalization at large user scales.
By Heng Cao, Fan Zhang, Jian Yao, Yujie Zheng, Changlin Zhao, Lu Hao, Yuxuan Wei, Wangze Ni, Huaiyu Fu, Yuqian Sun, Xuyan Mo
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
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: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
arXiv:2603.04191v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users may share individual preferences over extended interactio...
By Qianyun Guo, Yibo Li, Yue Liu, Bryan Hooi
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
Personalizing large language models (LLMs) to individual users is essential for improving user experience, yet existing approaches typically rely on explicit preference supervision such as pairwise comparisons or demographic attributes, limiting their applicability in natural interaction settings. We propose IRIS, a framework that learns dynamic user personas directly from implicit interaction streams by extracting behavioral signals from everyday conversations and iteratively refining persona representations through a prediction-driven closed loop without requiring explicit feedback.