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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large generative models have catalyzed a paradigm shift in content generation to Personalized Generation (PGen). |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level taxonomy that systematically formalizes PGen's key components, core objectives, and abstract workflows. |
| Outcome: | The proposed taxonomy bridging PGen research across multiple modalities highlights open challenges and promising directions for future exploration. |
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