Minjong Lee


2025

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CoPL: Collaborative Preference Learning for Personalizing LLMs
Youngbin Choi | Seunghyuk Cho | Minjong Lee | MoonJeong Park | Yesong Ko | Jungseul Ok | Dongwoo Kim
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) is important for aligning outputs with diverse user preferences, yet existing methods struggle with flexibility and generalization. We propose CoPL (Collaborative Preference Learning), a graph-based collaborative filtering framework that models user-response relationships to enhance preference estimation, particularly in sparse annotation settings. By integrating a mixture of LoRA experts, CoPL efficiently fine-tunes LLMs while dynamically balancing shared and user-specific preferences. Additionally, an optimization-free adaptation strategy enables generalization to unseen users without fine-tuning. Experiments on TL;DR, UltraFeedback-P, and PersonalLLM datasets demonstrate that CoPL outperforms existing personalized reward models, effectively capturing both common and controversial preferences, making it a scalable solution for personalized LLM alignment.