Personalized Generation In Large Model Era: A Survey
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In the era of large models, content generation is gradually shifting to Personalized Generation (PGen), tailoring content to individual preferences and needs. This paper presents the first comprehensive survey on PGen, investigating existing research in this rapidly growing field. We conceptualize PGen from a unified perspective, systematically formalizing its key components, core objectives, and abstract workflows. Based on this unified perspective, we propose a multi-level taxonomy, offering an in-depth review of technical advancements, commonly used datasets, and evaluation metrics across multiple modalities, personalized contexts, and tasks. Moreover, we envision the potential applications of PGen and highlight open challenges and promising directions for future exploration. By bridging PGen research across multiple modalities, this survey serves as a valuable resource for fostering knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration, ultimately contributing to a more personalized digital landscape.
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- 2025Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?cited by 34
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- 2025PrivacyBench: A Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Privacy in Personalized AIcited by 12
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- 2025LLM-Generated Ads: From Personalization Parity to Persuasion Superioritycited by 2
- 2026Vidmento: Creating Video Stories Through Context-Aware Expansion With Generative Videocited by 2
- 2026Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluationcited by 2
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- 2025PREFINE: Personalized Story Generation via Simulated User Critics and User-Specific Rubric Generationcited by 1
- 2026Learning to Retrieve User History and Generate User Profiles for Personalized Persuasiveness Predictioncited by 1
- 2026Improving User Privacy in Personalized Generation: Client-Side Retrieval-Augmented Modification of Server-Side Generated Speculationscited by 1
- 2026InEdit-Bench: Benchmarking Intermediate Logical Pathways for Intelligent Image Editing Modelscited by 1
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- 2026Anti-Persona: Disrupting Unauthorized Identity Binding and Recognition in Personalized Vision--Language Models1 Oct 2026
- 2026Rubric-Aware On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Personalization28 Sep 2026
- 2026LogicTree-RAG: Logic Tree-guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Long-form Patent Drafting25 Sep 2026
- 2026One Prompt Does Not Fit All: Self-Meta-Evolve for Personalized Information Extraction18 Sep 2026
- 2026Graph-Based Personalized Memory for LLM Agents: Representation, Evolution, Retrieval, and Evaluation8 Sep 2026
- 2026Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Models8 Sep 2026
- 2026Identifying Harm in Personalized, Generative AI Systems Requires User-Centered Auditing at the Interaction Level7 Aug 2026
- 2026SparSEEty: Extracting Tokens from Sparsity-Exploiting LLM Serving Systems via Deterministic Side Channels4 Aug 2026
- 2026Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluation29 May 2026
- 2026ChildEval: When large language models meet children's personalities27 May 2026
- 2026Hierarchical Multi-Persona Induction from User Behavioral Logs: Learning Evidence-Grounded and Truthful Personas28 Apr 2026
- 2026ClusterRAG: Cluster-Based Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Generation14 Apr 2026
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- 2026Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directions26 Feb 2026
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- 2026EXACT: Explicit Attribute-Guided Decoding-Time Personalization6 Feb 2026
- 2026Rethinking Personalization in Large Language Models at the Token Level4 Feb 2026
- 2026One Size, Many Fits: Aligning Diverse Group-Wise Click Preferences in Large-Scale Advertising Image Generation2 Feb 2026
- 2026CURP: Codebook-based Continuous User Representation for Personalized Generation with LLMs31 Jan 2026
- 2026Vidmento: Creating Video Stories Through Context-Aware Expansion With Generative Video29 Jan 2026
- 2026Improving User Privacy in Personalized Generation: Client-Side Retrieval-Augmented Modification of Server-Side Generated Speculations24 Jan 2026
- 2026Learning to Retrieve User History and Generate User Profiles for Personalized Persuasiveness Prediction9 Jan 2026
- 2026Multi-Disciplinary Dataset Discovery from Citation-Verified Literature Contexts8 Jan 2026
- 2026Thinking with Frames: Generative Video Distortion Evaluation via Frame Reward Model7 Jan 2026
- 2025PrivacyBench: A Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Privacy in Personalized AI31 Dec 2025
- 2025LLM-Generated Ads: From Personalization Parity to Persuasion Superiority3 Dec 2025
- 2025UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Edits1 Dec 2025
- 2025Personalized Reward Modeling for Text-to-Image Generation21 Nov 2025
- 2025SteerX: Disentangled Steering for LLM Personalization25 Oct 2025
- 2025When Personalization Tricks Detectors: The Feature-Inversion Trap in Machine-Generated Text Detection14 Oct 2025
- 2025Few-Shot and Training-Free Review Generation via Conversational Prompting25 Sep 2025
- 2025PREFINE: Personalized Story Generation via Simulated User Critics and User-Specific Rubric Generation16 Sep 2025
- 2025AI-Generated Content in Cross-Domain Applications: Research Trends, Challenges and Propositions14 Sep 2025
- 2025Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?3 Sep 2025
- 2025Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering14 Aug 2025
- 2025Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization28 Jul 2025
- 2025CoSteer: Collaborative Decoding-Time Personalization via Local Delta Steering7 Jul 2025
- 2025LaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question Answering30 May 2025
- 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models22 May 2025
- 2025Unveiling Language-Specific Features in Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders8 May 2025
- 2025A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent14 Apr 2025
- 2025Plan-and-Refine: Diverse and Comprehensive Retrieval-Augmented Generation10 Apr 2025
- 2025SPEED: Scalable, Precise, and Efficient Concept Erasure for Diffusion Models10 Mar 2025
- 2025A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agentcited by 27
- 2026Improving User Privacy in Personalized Generation: Client-Side Retrieval-Augmented Modification of Server-Side Generated Speculationscited by 1
- 2025Plan-and-Refine: Diverse and Comprehensive Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 0
- 2026ClusterRAG: Cluster-Based Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 0
- 2026Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Modelscited by 0
- 2026LogicTree-RAG: Logic Tree-guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Long-form Patent Draftingcited by 0
- 2026LogicTree-RAG: Logic Tree-guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Long-form Patent Drafting25 Sep 2026
- 2026Less Is Personal: Learning Minimal Sufficient User Profiles for Personalized Language Models8 Sep 2026
- 2026ClusterRAG: Cluster-Based Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Generation14 Apr 2026
- 2026Improving User Privacy in Personalized Generation: Client-Side Retrieval-Augmented Modification of Server-Side Generated Speculations24 Jan 2026
- 2025A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent14 Apr 2025
- 2025Plan-and-Refine: Diverse and Comprehensive Retrieval-Augmented Generation10 Apr 2025
- 2026One Size, Many Fits: Aligning Diverse Group-Wise Click Preferences in Large-Scale Advertising Image Generationcited by 5
- 2025Personalized Reward Modeling for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 4
- 2026Thinking with Frames: Generative Video Distortion Evaluation via Frame Reward Modelcited by 3
- 2026Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluationcited by 2
- 2026EpiPersona: Persona Projection and Episode Coupling for Pluralistic Preference Modelingcited by 0
- 2026Preference-Aware Rubric Learning for Personalized Evaluation29 May 2026
- 2026EpiPersona: Persona Projection and Episode Coupling for Pluralistic Preference Modeling30 Mar 2026
- 2026One Size, Many Fits: Aligning Diverse Group-Wise Click Preferences in Large-Scale Advertising Image Generation2 Feb 2026
- 2026Thinking with Frames: Generative Video Distortion Evaluation via Frame Reward Model7 Jan 2026
- 2025Personalized Reward Modeling for Text-to-Image Generation21 Nov 2025
- 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Modelscited by 71
- 2025Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?cited by 34
- 2025LaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question Answeringcited by 31
- 2025Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalizationcited by 21
- 2025CoSteer: Collaborative Decoding-Time Personalization via Local Delta Steeringcited by 13
- 2025PrivacyBench: A Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Privacy in Personalized AIcited by 12
- 2025UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Editscited by 10
- 2025Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answeringcited by 5
- 2026Long Context, Less Focus: A Scaling Gap in LLMs Revealed through Privacy and Personalizationcited by 5
- 2026Multi-Disciplinary Dataset Discovery from Citation-Verified Literature Contextscited by 4
- 2026CURP: Codebook-based Continuous User Representation for Personalized Generation with LLMscited by 4
- 2026EXACT: Explicit Attribute-Guided Decoding-Time Personalizationcited by 4
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- 2026Identifying Harm in Personalized, Generative AI Systems Requires User-Centered Auditing at the Interaction Level7 Aug 2026
- 2026ChildEval: When large language models meet children's personalities27 May 2026
- 2026Hierarchical Multi-Persona Induction from User Behavioral Logs: Learning Evidence-Grounded and Truthful Personas28 Apr 2026
- 2026InEdit-Bench: Benchmarking Intermediate Logical Pathways for Intelligent Image Editing Models4 Mar 2026
- 2026OmniFashion: Towards Generalist Fashion Intelligence via Multi-Task Vision-Language Learning3 Mar 2026
- 2026Long Context, Less Focus: A Scaling Gap in LLMs Revealed through Privacy and Personalization16 Feb 2026
- 2026EXACT: Explicit Attribute-Guided Decoding-Time Personalization6 Feb 2026
- 2026CURP: Codebook-based Continuous User Representation for Personalized Generation with LLMs31 Jan 2026
- 2026Vidmento: Creating Video Stories Through Context-Aware Expansion With Generative Video29 Jan 2026
- 2026Learning to Retrieve User History and Generate User Profiles for Personalized Persuasiveness Prediction9 Jan 2026
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