Daniel Barcklow


2026

Personalization in LLMs often relies on costly human feedback or interaction logs, limiting scalability and neglecting deeper user attributes. We introduce (Generative Response with Aligned Values, Interests, and Traits of You), a framework for generating synthetic, profile-grounded preference data that captures users’ interests, values, beliefs, and personality traits. By integrating demographic, cultural, and psychological frameworks—including Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, Schwartz’s basic values, the World Values Survey, and Big Five OCEAN traits—synthesizes chosen/rejected preference pairs to guide personalized content generation. We evaluate on book descriptions for 400 Amazon users, comparing it to prompt-based conditioning, standard fine-tuning, and naive synthetic pair generation. Profile-grounded synthetic data consistently improves generation, especially across multiple cultures (USA, Brazil, Japan, India), achieving over 4% higher preference gains across baselines, with user studies showing that outputs are preferred over 86% of the time. Our results show that scenario-grounded synthetic data can capture richer user variation, reduce reliance on costly annotation, and produce more engaging, user-centered content, offering a scalable path for LLM personalization. Code and datasets will be released upon acceptance.