Group Preference Collapse in Personalized Multimodal Large Language Models
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arXiv:2607.22603v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized multimodal large language models (MLLMs) aim to generate user-specific responses, but existing methods mainly rely on profile-level information and overlook diverse user preferences. We identify group preference collapse, where multi-user personalized MLLMs become insensitive to individual preferences and drift toward dominant population-level choices due to suppressed preference signals and unreliable preference use during generation. We propose PrefMoE, a preference-centric framework that separates stable profile information fr
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.22603v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized multimodal large language models (MLLMs) aim to generate user-specific responses, but existing methods mainly rely on profile-level information and overlook diverse user preferences.
- We identify group preference collapse, where multi-user personalized MLLMs become insensitive to individual preferences and drift toward dominant population-level choices due to suppressed preference signals and unreliable preference use during generation.
- We propose PrefMoE, a preference-centric framework that separates stable profile information fr
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