PRISP: Privacy-Safe Few-Shot Personalization via Lightweight Adaptation

Junho Park, Dohoon Kim, Taesup Moon


Abstract
Large language model (LLM) personalization aims to adapt general-purpose models to individual users. Most existing methods, however, are developed under data-rich and resource-abundant settings, often incurring privacy risks. In contrast, realistic personalization typically occurs after deployment under (i) extremely limited user data, (ii) constrained computational resources, and (iii) strict privacy requirements. We propose PRISP, a lightweight and privacy-safe personalization framework tailored to these constraints. PRISP leverages a Text-to-LoRA hypernetwork to generate task-aware LoRA parameters from task descriptions, and enables efficient user personalization by optimizing a small subset of task-aware LoRA parameters together with minimal additional modules using few-shot user data. Experiments on a few-shot variant of the LaMP benchmark demonstrate that PRISP achieves strong overall performance compared to prior approaches, while reducing computational overhead and eliminating privacy risks.
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2026.acl-long.1146
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, United States
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Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
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Junho Park, Dohoon Kim, and Taesup Moon. 2026. PRISP: Privacy-Safe Few-Shot Personalization via Lightweight Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 24986–25003, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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