Teaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15456v1
• Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:38:36 GMT
• Title: Teaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized Alignment
• Authors: Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Yulin Hu, Jiahe Guo, Haixiao Liu, Biye Li, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Ting Liu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Alignment (RLPA) framework to iteratively infer and refine user profiles through dialogue.<n>We instantiate RLPA by fine-tuning Qwen-2.5-3B-Instruct, resulting in Qwen-RLPA, which achieves state-of-the-art performance in personalized dialogue.
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• Abstract: Personalized alignment is essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric dialogue. While recent prompt-based and offline optimization methods offer preliminary solutions, they fall short in cold-start scenarios and long-term personalization due to their inherently static and shallow designs. In this work, we introduce the Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Alignment (RLPA) framework, in which an LLM interacts with a simulated user model to iteratively infer and refine user profiles through dialogue. The training process is guided by a dual-level reward structure: the Profile Reward encourages accurate construction of user representations, while the Response Reward incentivizes generation of responses consistent with the inferred profile. We instantiate RLPA by fine-tuning Qwen-2.5-3B-Instruct, resulting in Qwen-RLPA, which achieves state-of-the-art performance in personalized dialogue. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Qwen-RLPA consistently outperforms prompting and offline fine-tuning baselines, and even surpasses advanced commercial models such as Claude-3.5 and GPT-4o. Further analysis highlights Qwen-RLPA's robustness in reconciling conflicting user preferences, sustaining long-term personalization and delivering more efficient inference compared to recent reasoning-focused LLMs. These results emphasize the potential of dynamic profile inference as a more effective paradigm for building personalized dialogue systems.

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