arXiv AI By Jeesu Jung, Hwan Chang, Juseon Do, Jeonghwan Choi, Jinho Choo, Sungwoo Nam, S. K. Hong, Hwanjun Song

Ready2Blend: From Natural-Language Instructions to Composable Alignment Prompts

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Ready2Blend is a method that blends natural-language instructions with learned alignment prompts to enable continual alignment of large language models without retraining the backbone. It uses AlignFormer to map each requirement to a fixed-length prompt stored in a modular bank, while keeping the backbone and prior prompts frozen. The approach achieves 93.1–98.5% of joint‑training performance, retains prior knowledge, and reduces training time by up to 4.3×, also allowing weighted personalization and order‑free composition.

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