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Awesome Personalized Large Language Models (PLLMs)

Awesome

This repository focuses on personalized large language models (LLMs) that leverage user data to generate tailored responses based on individual user preferences. Our survey paper can be accessed on arXiv and we welcome any discussion and feedback!


Personalized Prompting

Profile-Augmented Prompting (PAG)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
Cue-CoTCue-cot:Chain-of-thought prompting for responding to in-depth dialogue questions with llmsEMNLP'23 FindingsPaper Github
PAGIntegrating Summarization and Retrieval for Enhanced Personalization via Large Language ModelsCIKM'23Paper
ONCEONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language ModelsWSDM'24Paper Github
MatryoshkaMatryoshka: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMsArxiv'24Paper Github
RewriterSlRlLearning to Rewrite Prompts for Personalized Text GenerationWWW '24Paper
DPLMeasuring What Makes You Unique: Difference-Aware User Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationACL'25 FindingsPaper Github
R2PReasoning Meets Personalization: Unleashing the Potential of Large Reasoning Model for Personalized GenerationArxiv'25Paper
EXP3RTReview-driven Personalized Preference Reasoning with Large Language Models for RecommendationSIGIR'25Paper Github

Retrieval-Augmented Prompting (RAG)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
MemPromptMemory-assisted prompt editing to improve GPT-3 after deploymentEMNLP'22Paper Github
TeachMeTowards Teachable Reasoning Systems: Using a Dynamic Memory of User Feedback for Continual System ImprovementEMNLP'22Paper
MSPLess is More: Learning to Refine Dialogue History for Personalized Dialogue GenerationACL'22Paper Github
RECAPRECAP: Retrieval-Enhanced Context-Aware Prefix Encoder for Personalized Dialogue Response GenerationACL'23Paper Github
Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models Through Topic-Based Vector DatabaseIALP'23Paper
AuthorPredTeach LLMs to Personalize -- An Approach inspired by Writing EducationArxiv'23Paper
MaLPLLM-based Medical Assistant Personalization with Short- and Long-Term Memory CoordinationNAACL'24Paper Github
MemoRAGMemoRAG: Moving towards Next-Gen RAG Via Memory-Inspired Knowledge DiscoveryWebConf'25Paper Github
PEARLPearl: Personalizing Large Language Model Writing Assistants with Generation-Calibrated RetrieversCustomNLP4U@ EMNLP'24Paper
CoPSCognitive Personalized Search Integrating Large Language Models with an Efficient Memory MechanismWebConf'24Paper
LaMPLaMP: When Large Language Models Meet PersonalizationACL'24Paper Github
ROPG / RSPGOptimization Methods for Personalizing Large Language Models through Retrieval AugmentationSIGIR'24Paper Github
HYDRAHYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM PersonalizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
TACITREEToward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit ReasoningArxiv'25Paper Github
Persona-DBPersona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data RefinementCOLING'25Paper Github
CFRAGRetrieval Augmented Generation with Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Text GenerationSIGIR'25Paper Github
AP-BotsImproving RAG for Personalization with Author Features and Contrastive ExamplesArxiv'25Paper Github
FERMIFew-shot Personalization of LLMs with Mis-aligned ResponsesNAACL'25Paper Github
RPM(LLMs Think, But Not In Your Flow: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models.)
RPM: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models
Arxiv'25Paper
PRIMELarge Language Model Personalization with Cognitive Memory and Thought ProcessesArxiv'25Paper
PersonaAgentPersonaAgent: When Large Language Model Agents Meet Personalization at Test TimeArxiv'25Paper
Mem0Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term MemoryArxiv'25Paper Github
MemWeaverMemWeaver: A Hierarchical Memory from Textual Interactive Behaviors for Personalized GenerationArxiv'25Paper Github

Soft-Fused Prompting

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
GSMNPersonalized Response Generation via Generative Split Memory NetworkNAACL'21Paper
RECAPRECAP: Retrieval-Enhanced Context-Aware Prefix Encoder for Personalized Dialogue Response GenerationACL'23Paper Github
UEMUser Embedding Model for Personalized Language PromptingPERSONALIZE@ ACL'24Paper
PERSOMAPERSOMA: PERsonalized SOft ProMpt Adapter Architecture for Personalized Language PromptingGenAIRecP@ KDD'24Paper
REGENBeyond Retrieval: Generating Narratives in Conversational Recommender SystemsArxiv'24Paper
PeaPODPreference Distillation for Personalized Generative RecommendationArxiv'24Paper Github
User-LLMUser-LLM: Efficient LLM Contextualization with User EmbeddingsArxiv'24Paper
ComMerComMer: a Framework for Compressing and Merging User Data for PersonalizationArxiv'25Paper
PPlugLLMs + Persona-Plug = Personalized LLMsACL'25Paper Github
DEPLatent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM PersonalizationEMNLP'25Paper Github
CBP-TuningCBP-Tuning: Efficient Local Customization for Black-box Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper
UniCTokensUniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept TokensNeurIPS'25Paper

Contrastive Prompting

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
CoS(CoS: Enhancing Personalization and Mitigating Bias with Context Steering)
Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time
(arXiv'24)
ICLR'25
Paper Paper Github
StyleVectorPersonalized Text Generation with Contrastive Activation SteeringACL'25Paper
CoSteerCoSteer: Collaborative Decoding-Time Personalization via Local Delta SteeringArxiv'25Paper
FintsFints: Efficient Inference-Time Personalization for LLMs with Fine-Grained Instance-Tailored SteeringArxiv'25Paper Github
SteerXSteerX: Disentangled Steering for LLM PersonalizationArxiv'25Paper

Personalized Adaptation

One PEFT All Users (One4All)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
UserIdentifierUserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment AnalysisFL4NLP @ ACL'22Paper
PEFT-UPEFT-U: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for User PersonalizationArxiv'24Paper Github
PLoRAPersonalized LoRA for Human-Centered Text UnderstandingAAAI'24Paper Github
LM-P / CLS-PPersonalized Large Language ModelsSENTIRE@ ICDM'24Paper
Review-LLMReview-LLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Personalized Review GenerationArxiv'24Paper
MiLPPersonalized LLM Response Generation with Parameterized Memory InjectionArxiv'24Paper Github
IGDIGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized RecommendationNeurIPS'25Paper Github

One PEFT Per Users (One4One)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
UserAdapterUserAdapter: Few-Shot User Learning in Sentiment AnalysisACL'21 FindingsPaper
RecLoRALifelong Personalized Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models for RecommendationArxiv'24Paper
iLoRACustomizing Language Models with Instance-wise Lora for Sequential RecommendationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PocketLLMPocketLLM: Enabling On-Device Fine-Tuning for Personalized LLMsPrivateNLP@ ACL'24Paper
OPPUDemocratizing Large Language Models via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuningEMNLP'24Paper Github
Per-PcsPersonalized Pieces: Efficient Personalized Large Language Models through Collaborative EffortsEMNLP'24Paper Github
Personalized Collaborative Fine-Tuning for LLMsCOLM'24Paper Github
FDLoRAFDLoRA: Personalized Federated Learning of Large Language Model via Dual LoRA TuningArxiv'24Paper
HYDRAHYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM PersonalizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PROPERPROPER: A Progressive Learning Framework for Personalized Large Language Models with Group-Level AdaptationACL'25Paper Github
HomeLLaMATowards Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes via Tailored Small Language Models(Arxiv'25) IEEE TMC'26Paper Github
MobiEditMobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMsArxiv'25Paper
CMUnlearning Misalignment for Personalized LLM Adaptation via Instance-Response-Dependent DiscrepanciesTMLR(09/2025), Journal SubmissionsPaper
Profile-to-PEFTInstant Personalized Large Language Model Adaptation via HypernetworkArxiv'25Paper Github
CoMiGSOn-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and SpecialistsICML'25Paper Github

Personalized Alignment

Data Construction

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
PLUMOn the Way to LLM Personalization: Learning to Remember User Conversations(Arxiv'24) ACL Workshop'25Paper
Aligning to Thousands of Preferences via System Message GeneralizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
Enabling On-Device Large Language Model Personalization with Self-Supervised Data Selection and SynthesisDAC'24Paper
PRISMThe PRISM Alignment Dataset: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language ModelsNeurIPS'24 (Best Paper)Paper Github
PersonalLLMPersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual PreferencesArxiv'24Paper Github
Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via InteractionCOLING'25Paper Github

Optimization

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
MORLHFFine-Grained Human Feedback Gives Better Rewards for Language Model TrainingNeurIPS'23Paper Github
Personalized SoupsPersonalized Soups: Personalized Large Language Model Alignment via Post-hoc Parameter MergingArxiv'23, NeurIPS Workshop'23Paper Github
Reward SoupsRewarded soups: towards Pareto-optimal alignment by interpolating weights fine-tuned on diverse rewardsNuerIPS'23Paper
MODPOBeyond One-Preference-Fits-All Alignment: Multi-Objective Direct Preference OptimizationACL'24 FindingsPaper Github
MODDecoding-Time Language Model Alignment with Multiple ObjectivesNeurIPS'24Paper Github
BiPOPersonalized Steering of Large Language Models: Versatile Steering Vectors Through Bi-directional Preference OptimizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PPTPersonalized Adaptation via In-Context Preference LearningArxiv'24, NeurIPS Workshop'24Paper
VPLPersonalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference LearningNeurIPS'24Paper Github
CIPHER, PRELUDEAligning LLM Agents by Learning Latent Preference from User EditsNeurIPS'24Paper Github
CHAMELEONPersonalize Your LLM: Fake it then Align itNAACL'25 FindingsPaper
REST-PGReasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text GenerationArxiv'25Paper
DriftDrift: Decoding-time Personalized Alignments with Implicit User PreferencesArxiv'25, EMNLP Findings'25Paper Github
PADPAD: Personalized Alignment of LLMs at Decoding-TimeICLR'25Paper Github
AmuletAmulet: ReAlignment During Test Time for Personalized Preference Adaptation of LLMsICLR'25Home Paper Github
RLPATeaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized AlignmentArxiv'25Paper
PROSEAligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing SamplesICML'25Paper
DEEPERDEEPER Insight into Your User: Directed Persona Refinement for Dynamic Persona ModelingACL'25PaperGithub
NextQuillNextQuill: Causal Preference Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationICLR'26 (Arxiv'25)Paper
RePICRePIC: Reinforced Post-Training for Personalizing Multi-Modal Language ModelsNeurIPS'25Paper Github
UserAlignInference-Time Personalized Alignment with a Few User Preference QueriesNeurIPS'25Paper
CURIOEnhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity RewardNeurIPS'25Paper

System (Agent)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
LD_AgentHello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term DialogueNAACL'25Paper Github
PUMA, PersonalWAB BenchmarkLarge Language Models Empowered Personalized Web AgentsWWW'25Home Paper Github
EgoMemEgoMem: Lifelong Memory Agent for Full-duplex Omnimodal ModelsArxiv'25Paper

Trustworthiness

Watermarking

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
SAEMarkSAEMark: Shaping Signatures with Adaptable Encoder for Robust and Imperceptible WatermarkingNeurIPS'25Paper

Analysis

KeywordPaper TitlePublished AtLink
Role of User ProfileUnderstanding the Role of User Profile in the Personalization of Large Language ModelsArxiv'24Paper Github
RAG vs. PEFTComparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Personalization of Large Language Models(Arxiv'24) ICTIR'25Paper
Safety-UtilityExploring Safety-Utility Trade-Offs in Personalized Language Models(Arxiv'24) NAACL'24Paper
PerCRSExploring the Impact of Personality Traits on Conversational Recommender Systems: A Simulation with Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper

Metric

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLink
EGISESAccuracy is Not Enough: Evaluating Personalization in SummarizersEMNLP'23 FindingsPaper
PerSEvalPerSEval: Assessing Personalization in Text SummarizersTMLR'24Paper Github
ExPerTExPerT: Effective and Explainable Evaluation of Personalized Long-Form Text GenerationACL'25 FindingsPaper Github

Benchmark

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLink
PER-CHATPersonalized Response Generation via Generative Split Memory NetworkNAACL'21Paper Github
LaMPLaMP: When Large Language Models Meet PersonalizationACL'24Home Paper Github
LongLaMPLongLaMP: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Text GenerationArxiv'24Home Paper Github
PerLTQAPerLTQA: A Personal Long-Term Memory Dataset for Memory Classification, Retrieval, and Fusion in Question AnsweringSIGHAN@ ACL'24Paper Github
PEFT-UPEFT-U: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for User PersonalizationArxiv'24Paper Github
REGENBeyond Retrieval: Generating Narratives in Conversational Recommender SystemsArxiv'24Paper
PRISMThe PRISM Alignment Dataset: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language ModelsNeurIPS'24 Best Paper AwardHugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PersonalLLMPersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual PreferencesICLR'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
ALOEAligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via InteractionCOLING'25Paper Github
PGraphRAGPersonalized Graph-Based Retrieval for Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper Github
PrefEvalDo LLMs Recognize Your Preferences? Evaluating Personalized Preference Following in LLMsICLR'25Home Paper Github
LongMemEvalLongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive MemoryICLR'25Home Paper Github
PersonalWABLarge Language Models Empowered Personalized Web AgentsWWW'25Home Paper Github
IMPLEXCONVToward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit ReasoningArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PERSONACONVBENCHA Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized ConversationsArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
HiCUPIDExploring the Potential of LLMs as Personalized Assistants: Dataset, Evaluation, and AnalysisACL'25Paper Github
LaMP-QALaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question AnsweringArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
DPLMeasuring What Makes You Unique: Difference-Aware User Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationACL'25 FindingsHugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
REALTALKREALTALK: A 21-Day Real-World Dataset for Long-Term ConversationArxiv'25Paper Github
MemBenchMemBench: Towards More Comprehensive Evaluation on the Memory of LLM-based AgentsACL'25 FindingsPaper Github
PersonaMemKnow Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale(Arxiv'25) COLM'25Paper Github
MemoryAgentBenchEvaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions(Arxiv'25) ICLR'26Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PersonaLensPersonaLens: A Benchmark for Personalization Evaluation in Conversational AI Assistants(Arxiv'25) ACL Findings'25Paper Github
TheanineTowards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory ManagementNAACL'25Paper Demo
PrefDiscoPersonalized Reasoning: Just-in-Time Personalization and Why LLMs Fail at It(Arxiv'25) ICLR'26Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
MMPBMMPB: It’s Time for Multi-Modal PersonalizationNeurIPS'25Paper
UnifyBenchUniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens (introduces UnifyBench)NeurIPS'25Paper
AgentRecBenchAgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender SystemsNeurIPS'25Paper Hugging Face Dataset Hub
BenchPreSBenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Preference Selectivity of Persistent-Memory LLMsarXiv'26Paper

Applications

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLinkDomain
HumSumHumSum: A Personalized Lecture Summarization Tool for Humanities Students Using LLMsACL Workshop'24PaperHumanity
LearnLensLearnLens: LLM-Enabled Personalised, Curriculum-Grounded Feedback with Educators in the Loop(Arxiv'25) EMNLP Demo'25Home YouTube PaperEducation
Divide and ConquerAdapting and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Self-Management: A Divide and Conquer Framework(Arxiv'25) AI for Clinical Applications'25PaperHealthcare
AdImpact-RLLearning Personalized Ad Impact via Contextual Reinforcement Learning under Delayed RewardsNeurIPS'25PaperAdvertising
FreeCureFoundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation KnowledgeNeurIPS'25Paper HomeDiffusion Personalization
Workshop NameConference/SeriesLink
The First Workshop on Personalized Generative AI @ CIKM 2023:
Personalization Meets Large Language Models.
CIKM'23Home
The 1st Workshop on Personalization of Generative AI SystemsACL'24Home
The 3rd Workshop on Personal Intelligence with Generative AIWWW'25Home
LLM4Good: Sustainable & Trustworthy LLMs for PersonalizationACM UMAP'25Home
P13N: Personalization in Generative AI WorkshopICCV'25Home
PerFM: Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation ModelsAAAI'26Home

Citation

@article{liu2025survey,
  title={A Survey of Personalized Large Language Models: Progress and Future Directions},
  author={Liu, Jiahong and Qiu, Zexuan and Li, Zhongyang and Dai, Quanyu and Zhu, Jieming and Hu, Minda and Yang, Menglin and King, Irwin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11528},
  year={2025}
}

Contributors

JiahongLiu21

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jindongli-Ai

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LvAoAo

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PersonalizedLLM

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JiahongLiu21/Awesome-Personalized-Large-Language-Models

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README

Awesome Personalized Large Language Models (PLLMs)

Awesome

This repository focuses on personalized large language models (LLMs) that leverage user data to generate tailored responses based on individual user preferences. Our survey paper can be accessed on arXiv and we welcome any discussion and feedback!


Personalized Prompting

Profile-Augmented Prompting (PAG)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
Cue-CoTCue-cot:Chain-of-thought prompting for responding to in-depth dialogue questions with llmsEMNLP'23 FindingsPaper Github
PAGIntegrating Summarization and Retrieval for Enhanced Personalization via Large Language ModelsCIKM'23Paper
ONCEONCE: Boosting Content-based Recommendation with Both Open- and Closed-source Large Language ModelsWSDM'24Paper Github
MatryoshkaMatryoshka: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMsArxiv'24Paper Github
RewriterSlRlLearning to Rewrite Prompts for Personalized Text GenerationWWW '24Paper
DPLMeasuring What Makes You Unique: Difference-Aware User Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationACL'25 FindingsPaper Github
R2PReasoning Meets Personalization: Unleashing the Potential of Large Reasoning Model for Personalized GenerationArxiv'25Paper
EXP3RTReview-driven Personalized Preference Reasoning with Large Language Models for RecommendationSIGIR'25Paper Github

Retrieval-Augmented Prompting (RAG)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
MemPromptMemory-assisted prompt editing to improve GPT-3 after deploymentEMNLP'22Paper Github
TeachMeTowards Teachable Reasoning Systems: Using a Dynamic Memory of User Feedback for Continual System ImprovementEMNLP'22Paper
MSPLess is More: Learning to Refine Dialogue History for Personalized Dialogue GenerationACL'22Paper Github
RECAPRECAP: Retrieval-Enhanced Context-Aware Prefix Encoder for Personalized Dialogue Response GenerationACL'23Paper Github
Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models Through Topic-Based Vector DatabaseIALP'23Paper
AuthorPredTeach LLMs to Personalize -- An Approach inspired by Writing EducationArxiv'23Paper
MaLPLLM-based Medical Assistant Personalization with Short- and Long-Term Memory CoordinationNAACL'24Paper Github
MemoRAGMemoRAG: Moving towards Next-Gen RAG Via Memory-Inspired Knowledge DiscoveryWebConf'25Paper Github
PEARLPearl: Personalizing Large Language Model Writing Assistants with Generation-Calibrated RetrieversCustomNLP4U@ EMNLP'24Paper
CoPSCognitive Personalized Search Integrating Large Language Models with an Efficient Memory MechanismWebConf'24Paper
LaMPLaMP: When Large Language Models Meet PersonalizationACL'24Paper Github
ROPG / RSPGOptimization Methods for Personalizing Large Language Models through Retrieval AugmentationSIGIR'24Paper Github
HYDRAHYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM PersonalizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
TACITREEToward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit ReasoningArxiv'25Paper Github
Persona-DBPersona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data RefinementCOLING'25Paper Github
CFRAGRetrieval Augmented Generation with Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Text GenerationSIGIR'25Paper Github
AP-BotsImproving RAG for Personalization with Author Features and Contrastive ExamplesArxiv'25Paper Github
FERMIFew-shot Personalization of LLMs with Mis-aligned ResponsesNAACL'25Paper Github
RPM(LLMs Think, But Not In Your Flow: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models.)
RPM: Reasoning-Level Personalization for Black-Box Large Language Models
Arxiv'25Paper
PRIMELarge Language Model Personalization with Cognitive Memory and Thought ProcessesArxiv'25Paper
PersonaAgentPersonaAgent: When Large Language Model Agents Meet Personalization at Test TimeArxiv'25Paper
Mem0Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term MemoryArxiv'25Paper Github
MemWeaverMemWeaver: A Hierarchical Memory from Textual Interactive Behaviors for Personalized GenerationArxiv'25Paper Github

Soft-Fused Prompting

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
GSMNPersonalized Response Generation via Generative Split Memory NetworkNAACL'21Paper
RECAPRECAP: Retrieval-Enhanced Context-Aware Prefix Encoder for Personalized Dialogue Response GenerationACL'23Paper Github
UEMUser Embedding Model for Personalized Language PromptingPERSONALIZE@ ACL'24Paper
PERSOMAPERSOMA: PERsonalized SOft ProMpt Adapter Architecture for Personalized Language PromptingGenAIRecP@ KDD'24Paper
REGENBeyond Retrieval: Generating Narratives in Conversational Recommender SystemsArxiv'24Paper
PeaPODPreference Distillation for Personalized Generative RecommendationArxiv'24Paper Github
User-LLMUser-LLM: Efficient LLM Contextualization with User EmbeddingsArxiv'24Paper
ComMerComMer: a Framework for Compressing and Merging User Data for PersonalizationArxiv'25Paper
PPlugLLMs + Persona-Plug = Personalized LLMsACL'25Paper Github
DEPLatent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM PersonalizationEMNLP'25Paper Github
CBP-TuningCBP-Tuning: Efficient Local Customization for Black-box Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper
UniCTokensUniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept TokensNeurIPS'25Paper

Contrastive Prompting

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
CoS(CoS: Enhancing Personalization and Mitigating Bias with Context Steering)
Context Steering: Controllable Personalization at Inference Time
(arXiv'24)
ICLR'25
Paper Paper Github
StyleVectorPersonalized Text Generation with Contrastive Activation SteeringACL'25Paper
CoSteerCoSteer: Collaborative Decoding-Time Personalization via Local Delta SteeringArxiv'25Paper
FintsFints: Efficient Inference-Time Personalization for LLMs with Fine-Grained Instance-Tailored SteeringArxiv'25Paper Github
SteerXSteerX: Disentangled Steering for LLM PersonalizationArxiv'25Paper

Personalized Adaptation

One PEFT All Users (One4All)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
UserIdentifierUserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment AnalysisFL4NLP @ ACL'22Paper
PEFT-UPEFT-U: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for User PersonalizationArxiv'24Paper Github
PLoRAPersonalized LoRA for Human-Centered Text UnderstandingAAAI'24Paper Github
LM-P / CLS-PPersonalized Large Language ModelsSENTIRE@ ICDM'24Paper
Review-LLMReview-LLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Personalized Review GenerationArxiv'24Paper
MiLPPersonalized LLM Response Generation with Parameterized Memory InjectionArxiv'24Paper Github
IGDIGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized RecommendationNeurIPS'25Paper Github

One PEFT Per Users (One4One)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
UserAdapterUserAdapter: Few-Shot User Learning in Sentiment AnalysisACL'21 FindingsPaper
RecLoRALifelong Personalized Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models for RecommendationArxiv'24Paper
iLoRACustomizing Language Models with Instance-wise Lora for Sequential RecommendationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PocketLLMPocketLLM: Enabling On-Device Fine-Tuning for Personalized LLMsPrivateNLP@ ACL'24Paper
OPPUDemocratizing Large Language Models via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuningEMNLP'24Paper Github
Per-PcsPersonalized Pieces: Efficient Personalized Large Language Models through Collaborative EffortsEMNLP'24Paper Github
Personalized Collaborative Fine-Tuning for LLMsCOLM'24Paper Github
FDLoRAFDLoRA: Personalized Federated Learning of Large Language Model via Dual LoRA TuningArxiv'24Paper
HYDRAHYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM PersonalizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PROPERPROPER: A Progressive Learning Framework for Personalized Large Language Models with Group-Level AdaptationACL'25Paper Github
HomeLLaMATowards Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes via Tailored Small Language Models(Arxiv'25) IEEE TMC'26Paper Github
MobiEditMobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMsArxiv'25Paper
CMUnlearning Misalignment for Personalized LLM Adaptation via Instance-Response-Dependent DiscrepanciesTMLR(09/2025), Journal SubmissionsPaper
Profile-to-PEFTInstant Personalized Large Language Model Adaptation via HypernetworkArxiv'25Paper Github
CoMiGSOn-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and SpecialistsICML'25Paper Github

Personalized Alignment

Data Construction

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
PLUMOn the Way to LLM Personalization: Learning to Remember User Conversations(Arxiv'24) ACL Workshop'25Paper
Aligning to Thousands of Preferences via System Message GeneralizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
Enabling On-Device Large Language Model Personalization with Self-Supervised Data Selection and SynthesisDAC'24Paper
PRISMThe PRISM Alignment Dataset: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language ModelsNeurIPS'24 (Best Paper)Paper Github
PersonalLLMPersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual PreferencesArxiv'24Paper Github
Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via InteractionCOLING'25Paper Github

Optimization

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
MORLHFFine-Grained Human Feedback Gives Better Rewards for Language Model TrainingNeurIPS'23Paper Github
Personalized SoupsPersonalized Soups: Personalized Large Language Model Alignment via Post-hoc Parameter MergingArxiv'23, NeurIPS Workshop'23Paper Github
Reward SoupsRewarded soups: towards Pareto-optimal alignment by interpolating weights fine-tuned on diverse rewardsNuerIPS'23Paper
MODPOBeyond One-Preference-Fits-All Alignment: Multi-Objective Direct Preference OptimizationACL'24 FindingsPaper Github
MODDecoding-Time Language Model Alignment with Multiple ObjectivesNeurIPS'24Paper Github
BiPOPersonalized Steering of Large Language Models: Versatile Steering Vectors Through Bi-directional Preference OptimizationNeurIPS'24Paper Github
PPTPersonalized Adaptation via In-Context Preference LearningArxiv'24, NeurIPS Workshop'24Paper
VPLPersonalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference LearningNeurIPS'24Paper Github
CIPHER, PRELUDEAligning LLM Agents by Learning Latent Preference from User EditsNeurIPS'24Paper Github
CHAMELEONPersonalize Your LLM: Fake it then Align itNAACL'25 FindingsPaper
REST-PGReasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text GenerationArxiv'25Paper
DriftDrift: Decoding-time Personalized Alignments with Implicit User PreferencesArxiv'25, EMNLP Findings'25Paper Github
PADPAD: Personalized Alignment of LLMs at Decoding-TimeICLR'25Paper Github
AmuletAmulet: ReAlignment During Test Time for Personalized Preference Adaptation of LLMsICLR'25Home Paper Github
RLPATeaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized AlignmentArxiv'25Paper
PROSEAligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing SamplesICML'25Paper
DEEPERDEEPER Insight into Your User: Directed Persona Refinement for Dynamic Persona ModelingACL'25PaperGithub
NextQuillNextQuill: Causal Preference Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationICLR'26 (Arxiv'25)Paper
RePICRePIC: Reinforced Post-Training for Personalizing Multi-Modal Language ModelsNeurIPS'25Paper Github
UserAlignInference-Time Personalized Alignment with a Few User Preference QueriesNeurIPS'25Paper
CURIOEnhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity RewardNeurIPS'25Paper

System (Agent)

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
LD_AgentHello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term DialogueNAACL'25Paper Github
PUMA, PersonalWAB BenchmarkLarge Language Models Empowered Personalized Web AgentsWWW'25Home Paper Github
EgoMemEgoMem: Lifelong Memory Agent for Full-duplex Omnimodal ModelsArxiv'25Paper

Trustworthiness

Watermarking

MethodPaper TitlePublished AtLink
SAEMarkSAEMark: Shaping Signatures with Adaptable Encoder for Robust and Imperceptible WatermarkingNeurIPS'25Paper

Analysis

KeywordPaper TitlePublished AtLink
Role of User ProfileUnderstanding the Role of User Profile in the Personalization of Large Language ModelsArxiv'24Paper Github
RAG vs. PEFTComparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Personalization of Large Language Models(Arxiv'24) ICTIR'25Paper
Safety-UtilityExploring Safety-Utility Trade-Offs in Personalized Language Models(Arxiv'24) NAACL'24Paper
PerCRSExploring the Impact of Personality Traits on Conversational Recommender Systems: A Simulation with Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper

Metric

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLink
EGISESAccuracy is Not Enough: Evaluating Personalization in SummarizersEMNLP'23 FindingsPaper
PerSEvalPerSEval: Assessing Personalization in Text SummarizersTMLR'24Paper Github
ExPerTExPerT: Effective and Explainable Evaluation of Personalized Long-Form Text GenerationACL'25 FindingsPaper Github

Benchmark

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLink
PER-CHATPersonalized Response Generation via Generative Split Memory NetworkNAACL'21Paper Github
LaMPLaMP: When Large Language Models Meet PersonalizationACL'24Home Paper Github
LongLaMPLongLaMP: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Text GenerationArxiv'24Home Paper Github
PerLTQAPerLTQA: A Personal Long-Term Memory Dataset for Memory Classification, Retrieval, and Fusion in Question AnsweringSIGHAN@ ACL'24Paper Github
PEFT-UPEFT-U: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for User PersonalizationArxiv'24Paper Github
REGENBeyond Retrieval: Generating Narratives in Conversational Recommender SystemsArxiv'24Paper
PRISMThe PRISM Alignment Dataset: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language ModelsNeurIPS'24 Best Paper AwardHugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PersonalLLMPersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual PreferencesICLR'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
ALOEAligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via InteractionCOLING'25Paper Github
PGraphRAGPersonalized Graph-Based Retrieval for Large Language ModelsArxiv'25Paper Github
PrefEvalDo LLMs Recognize Your Preferences? Evaluating Personalized Preference Following in LLMsICLR'25Home Paper Github
LongMemEvalLongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive MemoryICLR'25Home Paper Github
PersonalWABLarge Language Models Empowered Personalized Web AgentsWWW'25Home Paper Github
IMPLEXCONVToward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit ReasoningArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PERSONACONVBENCHA Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized ConversationsArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
HiCUPIDExploring the Potential of LLMs as Personalized Assistants: Dataset, Evaluation, and AnalysisACL'25Paper Github
LaMP-QALaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question AnsweringArxiv'25Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
DPLMeasuring What Makes You Unique: Difference-Aware User Modeling for Enhancing LLM PersonalizationACL'25 FindingsHugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
REALTALKREALTALK: A 21-Day Real-World Dataset for Long-Term ConversationArxiv'25Paper Github
MemBenchMemBench: Towards More Comprehensive Evaluation on the Memory of LLM-based AgentsACL'25 FindingsPaper Github
PersonaMemKnow Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale(Arxiv'25) COLM'25Paper Github
MemoryAgentBenchEvaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions(Arxiv'25) ICLR'26Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
PersonaLensPersonaLens: A Benchmark for Personalization Evaluation in Conversational AI Assistants(Arxiv'25) ACL Findings'25Paper Github
TheanineTowards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory ManagementNAACL'25Paper Demo
PrefDiscoPersonalized Reasoning: Just-in-Time Personalization and Why LLMs Fail at It(Arxiv'25) ICLR'26Hugging Face Dataset Hub Paper Github
MMPBMMPB: It’s Time for Multi-Modal PersonalizationNeurIPS'25Paper
UnifyBenchUniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens (introduces UnifyBench)NeurIPS'25Paper
AgentRecBenchAgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender SystemsNeurIPS'25Paper Hugging Face Dataset Hub
BenchPreSBenchPreS: A Benchmark for Context-Aware Personalized Preference Selectivity of Persistent-Memory LLMsarXiv'26Paper

Applications

NamePaper TitlePublished AtLinkDomain
HumSumHumSum: A Personalized Lecture Summarization Tool for Humanities Students Using LLMsACL Workshop'24PaperHumanity
LearnLensLearnLens: LLM-Enabled Personalised, Curriculum-Grounded Feedback with Educators in the Loop(Arxiv'25) EMNLP Demo'25Home YouTube PaperEducation
Divide and ConquerAdapting and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Self-Management: A Divide and Conquer Framework(Arxiv'25) AI for Clinical Applications'25PaperHealthcare
AdImpact-RLLearning Personalized Ad Impact via Contextual Reinforcement Learning under Delayed RewardsNeurIPS'25PaperAdvertising
FreeCureFoundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation KnowledgeNeurIPS'25Paper HomeDiffusion Personalization
Workshop NameConference/SeriesLink
The First Workshop on Personalized Generative AI @ CIKM 2023:
Personalization Meets Large Language Models.
CIKM'23Home
The 1st Workshop on Personalization of Generative AI SystemsACL'24Home
The 3rd Workshop on Personal Intelligence with Generative AIWWW'25Home
LLM4Good: Sustainable & Trustworthy LLMs for PersonalizationACM UMAP'25Home
P13N: Personalization in Generative AI WorkshopICCV'25Home
PerFM: Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation ModelsAAAI'26Home

Citation

@article{liu2025survey,
  title={A Survey of Personalized Large Language Models: Progress and Future Directions},
  author={Liu, Jiahong and Qiu, Zexuan and Li, Zhongyang and Dai, Quanyu and Zhu, Jieming and Hu, Minda and Yang, Menglin and King, Irwin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11528},
  year={2025}
}

Contributors

JiahongLiu21

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jindongli-Ai

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LvAoAo

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PersonalizedLLM

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