@inproceedings{cao-etal-2026-beyond, title = "Beyond Retrieval: Learning Compact User Representations for Scalable {LLM} Personalization", author = "Cao, Heng and Zhang, Fan and Yao, Jian and Zheng, Yujie and Zhao, Changlin and Hao, Lu and Wei, Yuxuan and Ni, Wangze and Fu, Huaiyu and Sun, Yuqian and Mo, Xuyan", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2100/", pages = "44707--44726", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }