Avinash Amballa
Author directory2026
Latent Personal Memory: Represent personal memory as dynamic soft prompts
Debrup Das | Avinash Amballa | Yashas Malur Saidutta | Vijay Srinivasan | Vivek Kulkarni | Srinivas Chappidi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Debrup Das | Avinash Amballa | Yashas Malur Saidutta | Vijay Srinivasan | Vivek Kulkarni | Srinivas Chappidi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Personalizing large language models (LLMs) requires encoding long-term, user-specific behavioral patterns in a way that is computationally efficient, scalable, and compatible with a frozen base model. We present Latent Personal Memory (LPM), a framework that represents user-specific history as a compact, persistent matrix of latent slots, that are interpretable. A shared cross-attention projection network maps these slots into dynamic, input-conditioned soft prompts that are prepended to the input of a frozen LLM. We evaluate LPM on PersonaMem v1 and LoCOMO benchmarks across Qwen3-1.7B, 4B, and 8B backbones. Results demonstrate that LPM outperforms LoRA and Prompt Tuning by up to 8.8 % and 54.4% in overall accuracy respectively on PersonaMem v1, while reducing KV-cache usage by over 64x. On LoCoMo, LPM matches LoRA’s accuracy while requiring approximately 120x fewer trainable parameters. We also show that LPM’s efficiency grows with context length and outperforms full-context at 128K context length.
VOYAGER: A Training Free Approach for Generating Diverse Datasets using LLMs
Avinash Amballa | Yashas Malur Saidutta | Chi-Heng Lin | Vivek Kulkarni | Srinivas Chappidi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Avinash Amballa | Yashas Malur Saidutta | Chi-Heng Lin | Vivek Kulkarni | Srinivas Chappidi
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate synthetic datasets for the evaluation and training of downstream models. However, prior work has noted that such generated data lacks diversity. In this paper, we propose VOYAGER, a novel principled approach to generate diverse datasets. Our approach is iterative and directly optimizes a mathematical quantity that optimizes the diversity of the dataset using the machinery of determinantal point processes. Furthermore, our approach is training-free, applicable to closed-source models, and scalable. In addition to providing theoretical justification for the working of our method, we also demonstrate through comprehensive experiments that VOYAGER improves diversity by 1.5-𝟑 times compared to popular baseline approaches.