MTA:A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Xiaopeng Li, Yuanjin Zheng, Wanyu Wang, Wenlin Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Yingyi Zhang, Haiying He, Mengyang Ma, Yiqi Wang, Maolin Wang, Xuetao Wei, Xiangyu Zhao
| Challenge: | Personalized Large Language Models (PLLMs) aim to align outputs with individual user preferences . current methods of fine-tuning a separate module for each user are unscalable . |
| Approach: | They propose a Merge-then-Adapt framework for Personalized Large Language Models . they construct a shared Meta-LoRA bank and propose an Adaptive LoRA Fusion stage . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing SOTA methods on the LaMP benchmark. |
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