arXiv AI

Persona Learning from Feedback for Personalized AI Assistants

The paper introduces Persona Learning from Feedback (PLF), a framework that creates reusable, preference‑grounded assistant personas as LoRA adapters on a frozen backbone. During training, a frozen self‑teacher provides token‑level supervision conditioned on persona specifications and response‑specific feedback, while a feedback gate focuses updates on responses needing improvement. At deployment, a supervised router selects an appropriate adapter or composition based on the request or dialogue, enabling personalized AI assistants without user‑specific fine‑tuning and improving preference fit over existing persona prompting and distillation methods.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

A Prompt-Engineering Approach to Develop Scalable, Flexible, and Real-Time Hybrid Micro-Level Personalization in a General Purpose AI Teaching Assistant

The paper introduces a prompt‑engineering framework that personalizes large language model (LLM) teaching assistants across disciplines by tailoring responses to six learner‑specific dimensions, creating 96 distinct learner profiles. It also analyzes student queries through Bloom’s Taxonomy to gauge cognitive complexity, encoding both learner attributes and cognitive assessments into structured prompts that condition the LLM without retraining. Experiments using NLP metrics and a small human study demonstrate that this approach yields perceptible differences in response style and structure, with statistical evidence linking specific learner attributes to measurable changes.

By Saptarshi Basu, Sandeep Kakar, Ashok Goel
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Synthetic Interaction Data for Scalable Personalization in Large Language Models

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Learning Dynamic User Personas from Implicit Interaction Streams via Iterative Refinement

arXiv:2607. 26473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.

By Haifeng Wu
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 1

LLM Persona Unlearning

arXiv:2609.39882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-training equips large language models (LLMs) with a broad repertoire of behavioral patterns associated with roles, styles, values, and goals. Post-...

By Kemou Li, Zhuan Shi, Qizhou Wang, Fengpeng Li, Negar Rostamzadeh, Golnoosh Farnadi, Jiantao Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Learning Dynamic User Personas from Implicit Interaction Streams via Iterative Refinement

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Mind2Dialogue: Training Human-Aware Language Models by Simulating User Mental States

arXiv:2609.15972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models become more capable, long-term collaboration in learning, reasoning, and decision-making calls for a deeper understanding of the p...

By Zixuan Wang, Yufan Zhou, Jinzhou Tang, Xinle Yu, Chengjun Wu, Lyumanshan Ye, Zhaoxiang Feng, Letian Peng, Adyasha Patra, Fan Bai, Enze Ma, Zhengding Hu, Jianyang Gu, Zhao Wang, Yufei Ding, Jingbo Shang, Tianmin Shu, Zhiting Hu, Zhen Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Learning What to Share and What to Personalize: Hierarchical Strategy Co-Evolution for Agent Memory

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 AI
Sep 24

COPE: Continual Personalization of LLMs under Sparse User Feedback via User Embeddings and Self-Evaluation

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