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title = "{P}er{D}ucer: Keyphrase-Driven Personalization Inducer for Summarization from User Histories",
author = "Chatterjee, Parthiv and
Batha, Asish Joel and
Dasgupta, Sourish and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1035/",
pages = "20651--20677",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
abstract = "Document summarization becomes more challenging when summaries must reflect a user{'}s subjective interests in addition to document salience. SOTA Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong in-context summarization capabilities. Prior works report that simply prepending long and dynamically evolving user histories leads to unstable, inconsistent personalization. To address this, we introduce PerDucer, a personalization inducer for frozen language models. Given a user interaction sequence (trajectory) and a query document, PerDucer first predicts the next likely preference signal. It then maps the latent signal to a small set of personalized keyphrases for the query document. These keyphrases serve as the control cues that steer the frozen summarizers (both LLMs and SLMs) towards user-aligned summaries. Across the PENS and OpenAI-Reddit benchmarks, PerDucer-boosted LLMs consistently outperform the strongest history-prompting baselines, yielding an average +0.18 improvement across personalization metrics (PerSEval in our case). Two PerDucer-augmented SLMs approach the top-performing evaluated LLM, with SmolLM2-1.7B reaching 97{\%} of the best-performing DeepSeek-R1-14B score. These results indicate that short keyphrase cues can induce personalization in frozen summarizers without modifying their parameters."
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%T PerDucer: Keyphrase-Driven Personalization Inducer for Summarization from User Histories
%A Chatterjee, Parthiv
%A Batha, Asish Joel
%A Dasgupta, Sourish
%A Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-395-1
%F chatterjee-etal-2026-perducer
%X Document summarization becomes more challenging when summaries must reflect a user’s subjective interests in addition to document salience. SOTA Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong in-context summarization capabilities. Prior works report that simply prepending long and dynamically evolving user histories leads to unstable, inconsistent personalization. To address this, we introduce PerDucer, a personalization inducer for frozen language models. Given a user interaction sequence (trajectory) and a query document, PerDucer first predicts the next likely preference signal. It then maps the latent signal to a small set of personalized keyphrases for the query document. These keyphrases serve as the control cues that steer the frozen summarizers (both LLMs and SLMs) towards user-aligned summaries. Across the PENS and OpenAI-Reddit benchmarks, PerDucer-boosted LLMs consistently outperform the strongest history-prompting baselines, yielding an average +0.18 improvement across personalization metrics (PerSEval in our case). Two PerDucer-augmented SLMs approach the top-performing evaluated LLM, with SmolLM2-1.7B reaching 97% of the best-performing DeepSeek-R1-14B score. These results indicate that short keyphrase cues can induce personalization in frozen summarizers without modifying their parameters.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1035/
%P 20651-20677
Markdown (Informal)
[PerDucer: Keyphrase-Driven Personalization Inducer for Summarization from User Histories](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1035/) (Chatterjee et al., Findings 2026)
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