2025.emnlp-industry.56@ACL

Total: 1

#1 Group Preference Alignment: Customizing LLM Responses from In-Situ Conversations Only When Needed [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Ishani Mondal, Jack W. Stokes, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Longqi Yang, Mengting Wan, Xiaofeng Xu, Xia Song, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, Jennifer Neville

LLMs often fail to meet specialized needs of distinct user groups due to their one-size-fits-all approach, and there is limited understanding of what personalization each group expects.To address this, we propose GPA a group-aware personalization framework that captures context-specific preference variations and steers LLMs accordingly.Our approach involves: (1) Group-Aware Preference Extraction, which distills divergent preferences from real-world conversation logs into interpretable rubrics, and (2) Tailored Response Generation, using (a) GPA-CT, which adapts responses using learnt rubrics, and (b) GPA-FT, which finetunes models using rubric-guided synthetic data.Automatic and Human evaluations confirm that GPA improves group alignment without compromising perfomance on standard instruction-following benchmarks.

Subject: EMNLP.2025 - Industry Track