LATTE: Forecasting Peer Anchored Preference Trajectories for Personalized LLM Generation

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Autores principales: Li, Jinze, Yang, Xiaoyan, Yang, Shuo, Xu, Jinfeng, Shen, Yue, Wang, Jian, Gu, Jinjie, Ngai, Edith Cheuk-Han
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author Li, Jinze
Yang, Xiaoyan
Yang, Shuo
Xu, Jinfeng
Shen, Yue
Wang, Jian
Gu, Jinjie
Ngai, Edith Cheuk-Han
author_facet Li, Jinze
Yang, Xiaoyan
Yang, Shuo
Xu, Jinfeng
Shen, Yue
Wang, Jian
Gu, Jinjie
Ngai, Edith Cheuk-Han
contents Personalized generation with frozen large language models requires a conditioning signal that is both compact and current. Existing personalization methods typically retrieve or summarize user histories in text, or compress them into static latent profiles and soft prompts. These approaches are efficient, but they treat a user's past behavior as an aggregate profile and therefore mix stable identity, recent drift, and item content in the same representation. We propose LAtent Trajectory Tracking and Extrapolation (LATTE), a framework that represents personalization as forecasting a peer anchored relative preference state. For each historical session, LATTE subtracts a time masked baseline formed from comparable users who responded to the same item, producing a state that measures how the target user differs from peers under a shared item context. A lightweight sequence predictor then forecasts the next state in this trajectory, and a State to Token Bridge injects the forecast into a frozen instruction tuned LLM through a single anchored soft token. We provide a latent factor analysis showing when peer anchoring cancels shared item variation and why temporal forecasting trades off stale averages against noisy recent states. Experiments on Amazon Reviews 2023 and MemoryCD show that LATTE consistently outperforms retrieval, summary memory, static latent profiles, difference aware latent profiles, and soft prompt compression baselines. On Amazon Reviews 2023, LATTE improves average ROUGE-L from 0.219 for a static latent profile and 0.245 for the strongest added latent compression baseline to 0.259. Additional pairwise comparisons and diagnostic analyses suggest that the improvement is mainly due to forecasting user-specific trajectory information, rather than merely adding a soft prompt interface.
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spellingShingle LATTE: Forecasting Peer Anchored Preference Trajectories for Personalized LLM Generation
Li, Jinze
Yang, Xiaoyan
Yang, Shuo
Xu, Jinfeng
Shen, Yue
Wang, Jian
Gu, Jinjie
Ngai, Edith Cheuk-Han
Computation and Language
Personalized generation with frozen large language models requires a conditioning signal that is both compact and current. Existing personalization methods typically retrieve or summarize user histories in text, or compress them into static latent profiles and soft prompts. These approaches are efficient, but they treat a user's past behavior as an aggregate profile and therefore mix stable identity, recent drift, and item content in the same representation. We propose LAtent Trajectory Tracking and Extrapolation (LATTE), a framework that represents personalization as forecasting a peer anchored relative preference state. For each historical session, LATTE subtracts a time masked baseline formed from comparable users who responded to the same item, producing a state that measures how the target user differs from peers under a shared item context. A lightweight sequence predictor then forecasts the next state in this trajectory, and a State to Token Bridge injects the forecast into a frozen instruction tuned LLM through a single anchored soft token. We provide a latent factor analysis showing when peer anchoring cancels shared item variation and why temporal forecasting trades off stale averages against noisy recent states. Experiments on Amazon Reviews 2023 and MemoryCD show that LATTE consistently outperforms retrieval, summary memory, static latent profiles, difference aware latent profiles, and soft prompt compression baselines. On Amazon Reviews 2023, LATTE improves average ROUGE-L from 0.219 for a static latent profile and 0.245 for the strongest added latent compression baseline to 0.259. Additional pairwise comparisons and diagnostic analyses suggest that the improvement is mainly due to forecasting user-specific trajectory information, rather than merely adding a soft prompt interface.
title LATTE: Forecasting Peer Anchored Preference Trajectories for Personalized LLM Generation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26612