PersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual Preferences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20296v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:55:42 GMT
• Title: PersonalLLM: Tailoring LLMs to Individual Preferences
• Authors: Thomas P. Zollo, Andrew Wei Tung Siah, Naimeng Ye, Ang Li, Hongseok Namkoong,
• Abstract summary: We present a public benchmark, PersonalLLM, focusing on adapting LLMs to provide maximal benefits for a particular user. We curate open-ended prompts paired with many high-quality answers over which users would be expected to display heterogeneous latent preferences. Our dataset and generated personalities offer an innovative testbed for developing personalization algorithms.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As LLMs become capable of complex tasks, there is growing potential for personalized interactions tailored to the subtle and idiosyncratic preferences of the user. We present a public benchmark, PersonalLLM, focusing on adapting LLMs to provide maximal benefits for a particular user. Departing from existing alignment benchmarks that implicitly assume uniform preferences, we curate open-ended prompts paired with many high-quality answers over which users would be expected to display heterogeneous latent preferences. Instead of persona-prompting LLMs based on high-level attributes (e.g., user's race or response length), which yields homogeneous preferences relative to humans, we develop a method that can simulate a large user base with diverse preferences from a set of pre-trained reward models. Our dataset and generated personalities offer an innovative testbed for developing personalization algorithms that grapple with continual data sparsity--few relevant feedback from the particular user--by leveraging historical data from other (similar) users. We explore basic in-context learning and meta-learning baselines to illustrate the utility of PersonalLLM and highlight the need for future methodological development. Our dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/namkoong-lab/PersonalLLM

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