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Expediting On-Device LLM Personalization via Explainable Model Selection (arxiv.org)
1 point by kstonekuan on Aug 9, 2025 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Rather than teaching a general model each user's preferences from scratch on a phone, this picks an already personalized model by reading explanations of how it was fine-tuned, then adapts it with the user's data. On smartphones it cut personalization's computing cost by 83%.

Abstract · Never Start from Scratch: Expediting On-Device LLM Personalization via Explainable Model Selection

Personalization of Large Language Models (LLMs) is important in practical applications to accommodate the individual needs of different mobile users. Due to data privacy concerns, LLM personalization often needs to be locally done at the user's mobile device, but such on-device personalization is constrained by both the limitation of on-device compute power and insufficiency of user's personal data. In this paper, we address these constraints by fine-tuning an already personalized LLM with user's personal data, and present XPerT, a new technique that ensure proper selection of such already personalized LLMs based on explainability about how they were being fine-tuned. We implemented and evaluated XPerT on various smartphone models with mainstream LLMs, and experiment results show that XPerT reduces the computation costs of on-device LLM personalization by 83%, and improves its data efficiency by 51%.

Haoming Wang, Boyuan Yang, Xiangyu Yin, Wei Gao
arXiv:2504.13938 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.HC · submitted Apr 15, 2025
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