无需训练即可实现多目标个性化对齐,动态调节偏好权重提升可控性。
MATO: Multi-objective Personalized Alignment with Test-time Optimization for Large Language Models

- 测试时优化框架,通过可调权重控制多个目标的重要性。
- 在多个数据集上优于基线,实现帕累托改进的多目标对齐。
- 适合需要灵活、低成本个性化且不依赖奖励模型的场景。
将大语言模型(LLM)与多样化、多维度的用户偏好对齐是个性化AI系统的核心挑战。现有方法或需昂贵训练,或依赖每个偏好的预训练奖励模型,难以适应变化的偏好。提示式个性化虽免于训练,但仅靠提示难以实现有效调控,因模型可能过度强调或忽略某些目标,在目标冲突时无法可靠控制相对重要性,导致对齐效果不佳。本文提出MATO——一种无需训练的多目标个性化对齐框架,结合测试时优化(test-time optimization)。MATO将个性化建模为测试时优化问题,在解码过程中通过可控权重调整多个目标的相对重要性,不修改模型参数,也无需外部奖励模型。具体而言,奖励发现模块直接从主干LLM中提取自然语言指定的多样化目标的偏好奖励;权重优化模块则根据用户初始偏好和部分生成结果,动态调整目标权重以平衡生成过程中的竞争目标。最终的奖励与权重联合引导对词元分布的在线优化,实现更优的目标对齐。大量实验在多个数据集和骨干模型上验证,MATO始终优于强基线,实现帕累托改进的多目标对齐,并显著增强可控性。结果表明,测试时优化是实现可扩展、可控制、模型无关个性化对齐的有前景方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse and multifaceted user preferences is a fundamental challenge in personalized AI systems. Existing multi-objective alignment methods either rely on costly training or require pre-trained reward models for each preference, making it difficult for them to adapt to evolving preferences. Prompt-based personalization offers a training-free alternative, but prompting alone often provides limited steerability, as LLMs may overemphasize or overlook certain preferences and fail to give users reliable control over the relative importance of different objectives when conflicts arise, leading to suboptimal alignment. In this paper, we introduce MATO, a training-free framework for Multi-objective personalized Alignment with Test-time Optimization. MATO formulates personalization as a test-time optimization problem that steers the relative importance of multiple objectives through controllable weights during decoding, without modifying model parameters or requiring external reward models. Specifically, a reward discovery module recovers preference rewards directly from the backbone LLM for diverse objectives specified in natural language, while a weight optimization module dynamically adjusts objective weights based on the user's initial preferences and the partially generated response to balance competing objectives during generation. The resulting rewards and weights jointly guide an online optimization procedure over the token distribution, enabling better alignment with the target objectives. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets and backbone LLMs show that MATO consistently outperforms strong baselines, achieving Pareto-improving multi-objective alignment and stronger steerability. These results highlight test-time optimization as a promising direction for scalable, controllable, and model-agnostic personalized alignment.
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