ResearchResearch paperImage, Video & 3D Generation · Interpretability1 source · Oct 6, 2026

Personalize at Test Time: Learning User Preferences for Image Generation

We propose an approach that learns personalized reward models directly from users' historical image preference pairs.

Key points

  • Diffusion models can generate high-quality images, yet aligning their outputs with individual user preferences remains challenging.
  • A key bottleneck is accurately modeling diverse user preferences from limited feedback.
  • Existing approaches often rely on labor-intensive manual preference annotations or vision-language models (VLM) to extract preference information from user interaction histories, introducing substantial annotation or computational costs that limit scalability.
  • Experiments on real-user preference data show that our approach achieves approximately 77% held-out pairwise preference prediction accuracy and improves the alignment of generated images with individual user preferences.

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  • [1]Personalize at Test Time: Learning User Preferences for Image Generation
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 07:10 PM
    We propose an approach that learns personalized reward models directly from users' historical image preference pairs.
    Diffusion models can generate high-quality images, yet aligning their outputs with individual user preferences remains challenging.

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