SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs

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Autori principali: Ryan, Michael J, Shaikh, Omar, Bhagirath, Aditri, Frees, Daniel, Held, William, Yang, Diyi
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author Ryan, Michael J
Shaikh, Omar
Bhagirath, Aditri
Frees, Daniel
Held, William
Yang, Diyi
author_facet Ryan, Michael J
Shaikh, Omar
Bhagirath, Aditri
Frees, Daniel
Held, William
Yang, Diyi
contents Recent calls for pluralistic alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) encourage adapting models to diverse user preferences. However, most prior work on personalized reward models heavily rely on additional identity information, such as demographic details or a predefined set of preference categories. To this end, we introduce SynthesizeMe, an approach to inducing synthetic user personas from user interactions for personalized reward modeling. SynthesizeMe first generates and verifies reasoning to explain user preferences, then induces synthetic user personas from that reasoning, and finally filters to informative prior user interactions in order to build personalized prompts for a particular user. We show that using SynthesizeMe induced prompts improves personalized LLM-as-a-judge accuracy by 4.4% on Chatbot Arena. Combining SynthesizeMe derived prompts with a reward model achieves top performance on PersonalRewardBench: a new curation of user-stratified interactions with chatbots collected from 854 users of Chatbot Arena and PRISM.
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spellingShingle SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs
Ryan, Michael J
Shaikh, Omar
Bhagirath, Aditri
Frees, Daniel
Held, William
Yang, Diyi
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Recent calls for pluralistic alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) encourage adapting models to diverse user preferences. However, most prior work on personalized reward models heavily rely on additional identity information, such as demographic details or a predefined set of preference categories. To this end, we introduce SynthesizeMe, an approach to inducing synthetic user personas from user interactions for personalized reward modeling. SynthesizeMe first generates and verifies reasoning to explain user preferences, then induces synthetic user personas from that reasoning, and finally filters to informative prior user interactions in order to build personalized prompts for a particular user. We show that using SynthesizeMe induced prompts improves personalized LLM-as-a-judge accuracy by 4.4% on Chatbot Arena. Combining SynthesizeMe derived prompts with a reward model achieves top performance on PersonalRewardBench: a new curation of user-stratified interactions with chatbots collected from 854 users of Chatbot Arena and PRISM.
title SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05598