Personalized Memory Doesn't Always Improve User Preference for LLM Responses

Dong et al. find that users frequently prefer responses without their personal history, motivating a new alignment objective for memory-augmented models.

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Yijiang River Dong · Zexue He · Cheng Yu · Tiancheng Hu · Michael J Ryan · Jan Batzner · +6 more

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Dong et al.

The authors recruited 87 participants who built personal memory profiles from their actual ChatGPT queries.

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