Creating an Atomic User Model for Personality-Aware Large Language Model Interaction

The paper introduces the Atomic User Model (AUM), a structured representation of a user’s personality that separates a stable identity nucleus from four interpretable shells—psychological, cognitive & experiential, behavioural, and social—along with cross-shell entries for conflict and authenticity. It proposes using AUM as a retrieval index rather than a prompt prefix, enabling a task‑specific, budgeted retrieval of relevant fields at generation time. Experiments with simulated participants show that retrieving eight AUM fields improves style fidelity, preference accuracy, and user voice identification compared to flat preference notes, especially benefiting users whose default assistant performs poorly.

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