In plain words: It learns what a specific person likes by reasoning through one or a few examples of their taste, then scores AI answers accordingly; it trains on made-up practice data followed by two rounds of fine-tuning. It beat same-size rivals and matched much larger ones.
Abstract
Reward models (RMs), which are central to existing post-training methods, aim to align LLM outputs with human values by providing feedback signals during fine-tuning. However, existing RMs struggle to capture nuanced, user-specific preferences, especially under limited data and across diverse domains. Thus, we introduce PersRM-R1, the first reasoning-based reward modeling framework specifically designed to identify and represent personal factors from only one or a few personal exemplars. To address challenges including limited data availability and the requirement for robust generalization, our approach combines synthetic data generation with a two-stage training pipeline consisting of supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement fine-tuning. Experimental results demonstrate that PersRM-R1 outperforms existing models of similar size and matches the performance of much larger models in both accuracy and generalizability, paving the way for more effective personalized LLMs.
Mengdi Li, Guanqiao Chen, Xufeng Zhao, Haochen Wen, Shu Yang, Di Wang
arXiv:2508.14076 · cs.LG, cs.AI · submitted Aug 12, 2025
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