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  1. Rethinking Personalized Generation: Test-Time Alignment via Factorized Ranking Models

    Sep 28, 2026Qiyao Ma, Junshan Zhang, Zhe ZhaoLarge Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Reranking

    University of California, Davis

  2. Textual User Taste: Natural-Language User Context for Foundation-Model Recommender System at Scale

    Sep 28, 2026Ghazal Fazelnia, Paul Gigioli, Eliza Klyce +16Large Language Model PersonalizationBehavioral Embeddings

    Spotify, USA, UK, Sweden

  3. Rubric-Aware On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Personalization

    Sep 28, 2026Yilun Qiu, Xiaoyan Zhao, Chengbing Wang +6Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Xiaohongshu Inc. · National University of Singapore · University of Science and Technology of China +1

  4. Using Context Is Not Enough: Test-Time Training for Personalized Reward Modeling

    Sep 28, 2026Bohao Wang, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang +4Large Language Model PersonalizationPreference Alignment Learning

    Zhejiang University · National University of Singapore

  5. Over-Personalization Is a Decision Failure: Generation-Induced Apply Bias in LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Haeun Jang, Yonghyun Jun, Hwanhee LeeLarge Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Bias

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University

  6. From Static Personal Values to Contextualized Personalization: Bayesian Personalized Value Alignment for LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Hanze Guo, Aixuan Song, Jing Yao +4Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Microsoft Research Asia · Beijing Key Laboratory of Research on Large Models and Intelligent Governance +1

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

    Sep 22, 2026Ruike Cao, Fugen Yao, Liang Dong +3Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    University of Science and Technology of China · Qwen Business Unit of Alibaba

  8. A Behavioral Trait Leaks into Preferences: Diagnosing Trait Interference in LLM User Simulators

    Sep 22, 2026Chaehyun Kim, Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang +1User SimulationPreference Alignment Learning

    KAIST Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  9. LoRA-generating hypernetworks for efficient on-device LLM generative personalization

    Sep 21, 2026Sean Augenstein, Li Ding, Jihwan Lee +2Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Google · Formerly at Google, work done while at Google

  10. Toward Personalized Sleep Guidance from Wearable Data Using Language Models

    Sep 18, 2026Yusheng Tan, Running Zhao, Sofia Angel +14SleepLarge Language Model Personalization

    The University of Chicago · Baylor College of Medicine · Georgetown University School of Medicine

  11. Tailored to you: longitudinal effects of personalising language models

    Sep 17, 2026Canfer Akbulut, Justine Breuch, Arianna Manzini +6Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Google DeepMind

  12. CIDERS: Cloud-Edge LLM Collaborative Learning via Accelerating Personalized Bilevel Optimization

    Sep 14, 2026Victor H. Chen, Hairui Yu, Stella K. Chung +1Edge PlatformsLarge Language Model Personalization

  13. Generate to Explore, Select to Exploit: Aligning LLM-based Headline Generation with Personalized Recommendation

    Sep 14, 2026Yi Chen, Rufeng Cheng, Qiang Xie +1Sequential RecommendationRecommendation Quality

    Baidu Inc., Beijing, China

  14. HyperTrace: Hypothesis-Based Preference Tracing for Online LLM Personalization

    Sep 9, 2026Jianzhi Shen, Keyu Mao, Minghao Shao +7Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Johns Hopkins University · Institute of Science Tokyo · NYU Tandon +1

  15. Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Models

    Sep 8, 2026Minghang Liu, Qiang Qiu, Yuanzhuo Wang +2Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  16. Aplaud: Adaptive Personalized Low-Rank Decomposition for User-Specific LLM

    Sep 7, 2026Xinyu Li, Ruoming Jin, Jianfeng Zhu +2Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Department of Computer Science, Kent State University · iLambda Inc.

  17. PLUME: Parameter-Efficient Personalization of Large Language Models via Low-Rank User Modulation in Shared Subspaces

    Sep 7, 2026Xinyu Li, Hao Zhou, Jianfeng Zhu +4Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Department of Computer Science Kent State University Kent, OH 44242, USA

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

    Sep 3, 2026Saptarshi Basu, Sandeep Kakar, Ashok GoelLarge Language Model PersonalizationTutors

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332, USA

  19. VIBE-Bench: Evaluating Personalized Large Language Models When Profiles Don't Mean Preferences

    Sep 1, 2026Yiwen Jiang, Yang Deng, Stephanie Fong +9Large Language Model PersonalizationPreference Alignment Learning

    1Monash University · 2Singapore Management University · University of Liverpool +1

  20. Balancing Privacy, Utility, and Safety in LLM Alignment through Preference Optimization

    Aug 31, 2026Dishu Yang, Jingjing Liu, Jize LiPrivacyLarge Language Model Alignment

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences Northeastern University San Jose, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, USA · Department of Economics Boston University Boston, USA

  21. Locating and Controlling Implicit Personalization in Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Yueru Yan, Siqi Wu, Thai LeLarge Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Bias

    Indiana University Bloomington, USA

  22. Learning Preference Adaptation for Large Language Model Personalization via Verbal Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 10, 2026Yuting Liu, Wei Wu, Jianzhe Zhao +1Large Language Model PersonalizationPreference Alignment

    Software College, Northeastern University, China · Ant International

  23. CIDER: A Dataset of Contextual Disclosure Boundaries for Privacy Preference Alignment

    Aug 10, 2026Bingcan Guo, Eryue Xu, Jijie Zhou +2PrivacyDisclosures

    University of Washington · UIUC · Northeastern University

  24. Training-Free Token-Level Steering for LLM Personalized Co-Writing

    Aug 6, 2026Wenhao Mao, Chengbin Hou, Weixiao Wang +4Large Language Model PersonalizationAi-Assisted Writing

    1Tsinghua University · Fuyao University of Science and Technology · 3Henan Provincial People’s Hospital

  25. Cautious Context Steering for Language Model Personalization

    Aug 6, 2026Gihoon Kim, Jeyoung Lee, Suhan Woo +4Large Language Model PersonalizationIn-Context Learning

    Yonsei University · Hyundai Motors Company · Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  26. LUNAR: Benchmarking Personalized Large Language Models on UNiversal User BehAvioR Logs

    Aug 5, 2026Jiahao Zhang, Yongzhi Tong, Zelin Fu +4Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    1Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · ♣Work done at Ant Group · 2Ant Group +1

  27. FinPerMA: A Theory-Informed, Event-Grounded Personalized-Memory Benchmark for LLM Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Ben Wang, Kang Zhou, Lifan Guo +2Large Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Agents

    Qwen DianJin Team, Alibaba Cloud Computing

  28. LLM-Derived Priors for Thompson Sampling in Cold-Start Comment Recommendation

    Aug 4, 2026Eugene Lee, Oseong Choi, Byungsoo Kang +1Thompson SamplingLarge Language Model Personalization

    NAVER WEBTOON South Korea

  29. From Profiling to Synthesis: Benchmarking Implicit Behavioral Alignment in Personalized LLM Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Jiajia Song, Bobo Li, Haiwen Yi +6Personalized Large Language Model AgentsLarge Language Model Personalization

    National University of Singapore · University of Toronto · University of Minnesota Twin Cities +2

  30. Know It, Act on It: Investigating Memory Utilization in LLM Personalization

    Jul 31, 2026Zhaoxin Feng, Jianfei Ma, Emmanuele ChersoniLarge Language Model PersonalizationPeak Memory

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  31. PrefReward: Learning User Preference Matrix for Personalized Text Generation

    Jul 23, 2026Yue Wu, Chengbing Wang, Yimeng Bai +3Large Language Model PersonalizationText Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · National University of Singapore

  32. Personalized Recommendation Tool Learning via Autonomous Language Agents

    Jul 22, 2026Mingdai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Weizhi Zhang +3Multi-Llm AgentsLarge Language Model Personalization

    Univ. of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL, USA · Microsoft Mountain View, USA · Beihang University, & Hangzhou Innovation Institute of BUAA Beijing & Hangzhou, China

  33. AdaHome: An Adaptive Smart Home Assistant using Local Small Language Models

    Jul 20, 2026Eu Jin Lim, Zhaoxing Li, Sebastian SteinSmart HomesLarge Language Model Personalization

    University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom

  34. Supervised Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context Learning: An Equilibrium Analysis of LLM Personalization under Congestion

    Jul 15, 2026Fengzhuo Zhang, Zhuoran Yang, Dirk BergemannLarge Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Yale University, 30 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT 06520, USA

  35. APeB: Benchmarking Personalization Ability of Large Language Model Agents

    Jul 3, 2026Garry Yang, Zizhe Chen, Xinru Chen +9Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalized Large Language Model Agents

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2ByteDance

  36. DRIFTLENS: Measuring Memory-Induced Reasoning Drift in Personalized Language Models

    Jul 2, 2026Xi Fang, Weijie Xu, Yingqiang Ge +3Large Language Model PersonalizationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    1Amazon

  37. On the Limits of Steering Vectors for Preference-Aligned Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Melanie Subbiah, Zara Hall, Kathleen McKeownPreference AlignmentText Generation

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA

  38. Music Playlist Captioning at Scale with Large Language Models

    Jun 21, 2026Mathieu Delcluze, Léa Briand, Benjamin Chapus +2Dance-To-Music GenerationLarge Language Model Personalization

    Deezer Research · SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology

  39. GRAG: Generic Response-Augmented Generation Framework for Personalized Conversational Systems

    Jun 19, 2026Junfeng Liu, Christopher T. Symons, Ranga Raju VatsavaiLarge Language Model PersonalizationConversational Artificial Intelligence

    North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC, USA · Lirio, Inc. +1

  40. Latent Personal Memory: Represent personal memory as dynamic soft prompts

    Jun 18, 2026Debrup Das, Avinash Amballa, Yashas Malur Saidutta +3Large Language Model MemoryLarge Language Model Personalization

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · Samsung Research America

  41. On the Memorization Behavior of LLMs in Generative Recommendation: Observations, Implications, and Training Strategies

    Jun 15, 2026Sunwoo Kim, Sunkyung Lee, Clark Mingxuan Ju +5Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model Memory

    1KAIST · 2Sungkyunkwan University · 3Snap Inc.

  42. Evaluating LLM Personalization via Semantic Constraint Verification

    Jun 15, 2026Xuran Li, Guanqin Zhang, Imran Razzak +4Large Language Model PersonalizationNatural Language Inference

    University of New South Wales · 2Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 3The Technology Innovation Institute +1

  43. Group Preference Collapse in Personalized Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 12, 2026Fan Lyu, Wenqi Zhang, Joost van de WeijerLarge Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 08193

  44. Personalization Meets Safety:Mechanisms,Risks,and Mitigations in Personalized LLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Yanyan Luo, Xue Han, Ruiqiao Bai +10Large Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Safety

    Jiutian Research, China Mobile Jiutian Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing, China. · Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese2026 Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

  45. PAFO: Pareto Fairness Optimization for Personalized Reward Modeling

    Jun 6, 2026Xiaoyan Zhao, Haoting Ni, Yang Zhang +3Large Language Model PersonalizationProgress Reward Modeling

    National University of Singapore · University of Science and Technology of China · Peking University

  46. Mind the Gap: Bridging Behavioral Silos with LLMs in Multi-Vertical Recommendations

    Jun 4, 2026Nimesh Sinha, Raghav Saboo, Martin Wang +1Recommendation QualityRecommendation

    DoorDash Inc. San Francisco, California, USA

  47. Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization

    Jun 4, 2026Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal AugustLarge Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    †University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · ♯Carnegie Mellon University

  48. Statistical Priors for Implicit Preferences: Decoupling Skill Selection as a Local Harness in Personal Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Zeyu Gan, Huayi Tang, Yong LiuPreference LearningLarge Language Model Personalization

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence Renmin University of China Beijing, China

  49. Self-supervised User Profile Generation for Personalization

    Jun 3, 2026Clark Mingxuan Ju, Yuwei Qiu, Tong Zhao +1Large Language Model PersonalizationProfile

    Snap Inc. · Bellevue, WA USA

  50. Beyond Retrieval: Learning Compact User Representations for Scalable LLM Personalization

    Jun 3, 2026Heng Cao, Fan Zhang, Jian Yao +8Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    *Microsoft · †The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · ⋄Shanghai International Studies University +1

  51. LLM-Assisted Reranking to Operationalize Nuanced Objectives in Recommender Systems

    Jun 1, 2026Amir Ghasemian, Homa Hosseinmardi, Upasana Dutta +1Large Language Model RerankingLarge Language Model Personalization

    Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 · Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 +1

  52. Beyond Isolated Behaviors: Hierarchical User Modeling for LLM Personalization

    Jun 1, 2026Liang Wang, Xinyi Mou, Xiaoyou Liu +3Large Language Model PersonalizationUser Modeling

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · 3OPPO · 2Shanghai Innovation Institute

  53. Large Language Models Should Learn Personalized Rather Than Aggregated Human Preferences

    May 30, 2026Cristina GarbaceaLarge Language Model PersonalizationPreference Alignment Learning

    University of Chicago, Data Science Institute, Chicago, USA.

  54. Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluation

    May 29, 2026Yilun Qiu, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang +7Large Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Evaluation

    National University of Singapore · Xiaohongshu Inc. · The University of Tokyo

  55. Personalize Your Large Vision-language Models With In-context Prompt Tuning

    May 29, 2026Yanshu Li, Jiaqian Li, Kuai Yu +4Soft Prompt TuningLarge Language Model Personalization

    Brown University · Columbia University · University of Alabama at Birmingham +2

  56. Differentially Private Preference Data Synthesis for Large Language Model Alignment

    May 29, 2026Fengyu Gao, Jing YangPreference AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

  57. Toward User Preference Alignment in LLM Recommendation via Explicit Context Feedback

    May 27, 2026Weizhi Zhang, Wooseong Yang, Yuxin Cui +9Preference Alignment LearningPreference Alignment

    University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA · Meta, Menlo Park, USA

  58. VitaBench 2.0: Evaluating Personalized and Proactive Agents in Long-Term User Interactions

    May 26, 2026Yuxin Chen, Yi Zhang, Zhengzhou Cai +11Large Language Model Personalization

    1National University of Singapore · 2Meituan · University of Science and Technology of China +2

  59. L2Rec: Towards Dual-View Understanding of LLMs for Personalized Recommendation

    May 26, 2026Pingjun Pan, Tingting Zhou, Peiyao Lu +3Large Language Model PersonalizationRecommendation Quality

    Netease Cloud Music Hangzhou, China

  60. LATTE: Forecasting Peer Anchored Preference Trajectories for Personalized LLM Generation

    May 26, 2026Jinze Li, Xiaoyan Yang, Shuo Yang +5Large Language Model PersonalizationFrozen Language Model

    The University of Hong Kong · Ant Healthcare, Ant Group