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One Adapts to Any: Meta Reward Modeling for Personalized LLM Alignment

sigir26-165 · Full research paper · Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Tiezheng Yu, Fengbin Zhu, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Wenjie Li
Preference Alignment and Optimizatio · 50% Personalized LLM Adaptation · 50%
Abstract

Alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) aims to align outputs with human preferences, and personalized alignment further adapts models to individual users. This relies on personalized reward models that capture user-specific preferences and automatically provide individualized feedback. However, developing these models faces two critical challenges: the scarcity of feedback from individual users and the need for efficient adaptation to unseen users. We argue that addressing these constraints requires a paradigm shift from fitting static user models to ''learning to learn'' adaptation. To realize this, we propose Meta Reward Modeling (MRM), which reformulates personalized reward modeling as a meta-learning problem. Specifically, we represent each user's reward model as a weighted combination of base reward functions, and optimize the initialization of these weights using a Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML)-style framework to support fast adaptation under limited feedback. To ensure robustness, we introduce the Robust Personalization Objective (RPO), which places greater emphasis on hard-to-learn users during meta optimization. Extensive experiments on personalized preference datasets validate that MRM enhances few-shot personalization, improves user robustness, and consistently outperforms baselines. We release code at https://github.com/ModalityDance/MRM.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Yingyi Zhang 0001
43
75 MTA: A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Models (2026) LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation
56 Bridging Personalization and AI: From RAG to Agent (2026) Personalized and Conversational RAG
56 A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent (2026) Personalized and Conversational RAG
2 Dan Luo 0004
39
41 Flow Matching Based Sequential Recommender Model (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
39 Unbiased Learning-to-Rank Needs Unconfounded Propensity Estimation (2024) Unbiased Learning to Rank
39 Model-based Unbiased Learning to Rank (2023) Unbiased Learning to Rank

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Pengyue Jia 45
Area-chair candidates (5)
Pengyue Jia assigned 4510 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 4215 papers
Jun Xu 0001 COI: co-author 422 papers
Kun Gai 415 papers
Xiaoxue Zang COI: co-author 414 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Zhengyi Yang 0007 COI: co-author 64 3
74 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
74 Towards Robust Alignment of Language Models: Distributionally Robustifying Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
2 Yang Zhang 0072 COI: co-author 62 3
80 Don't Start Over: A Cost-Effective Framework for Migrating Personalized Prompts Between LLMs (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
74 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
3 Chongming Gao COI: co-author 60 3
100 Reinforced Prompt Personalization for Recommendation with Large Language Models (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
80 Don't Start Over: A Cost-Effective Framework for Migrating Personalized Prompts Between LLMs (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
4 Jizhi Zhang COI: co-author 55 3
74 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
74 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
5 Jiancan Wu COI: co-author 54 3
74 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
74 Larger or Smaller Reward Margins to Select Preferences for LLM Alignment? (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
6 Junjie Zhang 0009 47 3
74 Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach (2025) Personalized LLM Adaptation
55 STARec: An Efficient Agent Framework for Recommender Systems via Autonomous Deliberate Reasoning (2025) RL Training of Search Agents
7 Keqin Bao COI: co-author 46 3
74 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
71 Item-side Fairness of Large Language Model-based Recommendation System (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
8 Yupeng Hou 46 3
74 Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach (2025) Personalized LLM Adaptation
49 Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
9 Xiao Zhang 0034 46 3
75 Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
54 Similarity = Value? Consultation Value-Assessment and Alignment for Personalized Search (2025) Personalized and Context-Aware Retrieval
10 Bo Chen 0023 46 3
59 ELCoRec: Enhance Language Understanding with Co-Propagation of Numerical and Categorical Features for Recommendation (2024) LLM-Collaborative Filtering Integration
50 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
11 Wenlin Zhang 0001 45 3
74 MTA: A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Models (2026) Personalized LLM Adaptation
53 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
13 Huifeng Guo COI: co-author 45 3
65 Prompt Tuning as User Inherent Profile Inference Machine (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
53 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
14 Bowen Zheng 0005 45 3
56 Autonomous Reasoning-Retrieval for Large Language Model Based Recommendation (2025) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking
50 Adapting Large Language Models by Integrating Collaborative Semantics for Recommendation (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
15 Jieming Zhu 44 3
61 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
49 Efficient and Deployable Knowledge Infusion for Open-World Recommendations via Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
16 Xuanhua Yang 43 3
59 Breaking the Relevance-Diversity Seesaw: Hierarchical LLM Reasoning with RL for Industrial Novelty Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
51 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
17 Junwei Pan COI: co-author 43 3
51 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
50 Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
18 Shuchang Liu 0001 43 3
57 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
53 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
19 Yingyi Zhang 0001 assigned 43 3
75 MTA: A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Models (2026) LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation
56 Bridging Personalization and AI: From RAG to Agent (2026) Personalized and Conversational RAG
20 Hao Liu 0078 43 3
49 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
43 Mitigating Fine-tuning Bias: A Parameter-Efficient Debiasing Framework for Large Language Models (2026) Bias Mitigation Methods
22 Lichan Hong 42 3
47 Balancing Fine-tuning and RAG: A Hybrid Strategy for Dynamic LLM Recommendation Updates (2025) RAG for Domain Applications
46 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
24 Yongqi Li 0001 COI: author 42 3
69 R$^2$ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
47 Data-efficient Fine-tuning for LLM-based Recommendation (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
25 Ed H. Chi 42 3
49 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
46 PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
26 Han Li 0005 42 3
52 LEARN: Knowledge Adaptation from Large Language Model to Recommendation for Practical Industrial Application (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
48 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
27 Min Hou 0004 42 3
73 RecCocktail: A Generalizable and Efficient Framework for LLM-Based Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
48 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
28 Shijie Wang 0002 42 3
71 CheatAgent: Attacking LLM-Empowered Recommender Systems via LLM Agent (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
68 ReRec: Reasoning-Augmented LLM-based Recommendation Assistant via Reinforcement Fine-tuning (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
30 Jialong Wu 0007 41 3
80 PROPER: A Progressive Learning Framework for Personalized Large Language Models with Group-Level Adaptation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
43 Causal Prompting: Debiasing Large Language Model Prompting Based on Front-Door Adjustment (2025) Bias Mitigation Methods
31 Yuchen Li 0006 41 3
45 S2phere: Semi-Supervised Pre-training for Web Search over Heterogeneous Learning to Rank Data (2023) Web-Scale Learning to Rank
43 M2oERank: Multi-Objective Mixture-of-Experts Enhanced Ranking for Satisfaction-Oriented Web Search (2025) Web-Scale Learning to Rank
32 Jianling Wang 41 3
48 Fresh Content Recommendation at Scale: A Multi-funnel Solution and the Potential of LLMs (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
46 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
33 Bo Peng 0009 41 3
53 eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
44 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
34 Wei Guo 0006 41 3
48 Can LLMs Outshine Conventional Recommenders? A Comparative Evaluation (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
41 Breaking the Bottleneck: User-Specific Optimization and Real-Time Inference Integration for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation