Personalization Toolkit: Training Free Personalization of Large Vision Language Models
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Abstract (arXiv)
Personalization of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) involves customizing models to recognize specific users or object instances and to generate contextually tailored responses. Existing approaches rely on time-consuming training for each item, making them impractical for real-world deployment, as reflected in current personalization benchmarks limited to object-centric single-concept evaluations. In this paper, we present a novel training-free approach to LVLM personalization called ours. We introduce a comprehensive, real-world benchmark designed to rigorously evaluate various aspects of the personalization task. ours leverages pre-trained vision foundation models to extract distinctive features, applies retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques to identify instances within visual inputs, and employs visual prompting strategies to guide model outputs. Our model-agnostic vision toolkit enables efficient and flexible multi-concept personalization across both images and videos, without any additional training. We achieve state-of-the-art results, surpassing existing training-based methods.
Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in VLM benchmarks and visual reasoning, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models. Builds on 41 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 4 Feb 2025.
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