COLM 2026 poster: Weightless Fine-tuning personalizes LLMs for millions of users without SFT

TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-09

A COLM 2026 poster, Weightless Fine-tuning for Personalizing LLMs without actual Fine-tuning, tackles SFT's scaling problem: per-user optimization, separate LoRA weights, and retraining become prohibitively expensive at millions of users.

The team previously showed per-author SFT can emulate award-winning authors' styles; this work aims to personalize without any weight updates. Details live in the poster.

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