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arxiv: 2607.00486 · v1 · pith:OOTGGXMXnew · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· cs.CV

PAPA: Online Personalized Active Preference Alignment

Anindya Sarkar , Nasik Muhammad Nafi , Isaac Lyngaas , Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik This is my paper

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keywords diffusion modelspreference alignmentpersonalized generationreinforcement learningvariational inferenceactive feedbackfine-tuning
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PAPA aligns diffusion models to user preferences by directly optimizing them with real-time feedback instead of learning a reward model.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents PAPA as a way to personalize diffusion models for tasks such as recommender systems where preferences start unknown and must be uncovered through interaction. It frames the task as reinforcement learning but removes the usual step of first training a separate parameterized reward model on large preference datasets. Instead, PAPA updates the diffusion model itself in an online loop that queries users for preferences and incorporates the signals directly. The method draws on variational inference ideas to keep the number of required interactions low. Experiments cover class-conditioned generation and fine-grained alignment, while EPAPA adds a lighter fine-tuning schedule that lowers compute cost.

Core claim

PAPA bypasses the requirement for a parametrized reward model by directly optimizing the diffusion model using real-time user feedback and enables feedback-efficient preference alignment, drawing inspiration from the variational inference framework; EPAPA further reduces the computational budget needed for fine-tuning.

What carries the argument

The PAPA procedure that performs direct parameter updates on the diffusion model by treating user preference responses as variational signals in an online active loop.

If this is right

  • Preference alignment becomes possible with far smaller volumes of labeled preference data.
  • The same direct-optimization approach applies across both coarse class-conditioned and fine-grained personalization tasks.
  • EPAPA reduces the compute needed for each fine-tuning run while preserving alignment gains.
  • Interactive systems can fine-tune generative models on the fly as new users provide feedback.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The direct-optimization pattern may transfer to other generative architectures that currently rely on reward models.
  • Pairing PAPA with stronger active-query selection could cut the interaction count even further.
  • Online stability under shifting user tastes remains an open question for deployment.

Load-bearing premise

Real-time user feedback can be collected and fed back into the model stably enough to replace a learned reward model without causing instability or demanding too many interactions.

What would settle it

An experiment in which PAPA is run with limited or noisy user feedback and produces worse alignment quality than a standard reward-model baseline on the same tasks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00486 by Anindya Sarkar, Isaac Lyngaas, Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena, Nasik Muhammad Nafi, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the considered personalized active preference alignment problem. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: An overview of PAPA at step t. Algorithm 1 Personalized Active Preference Alignment 1: Input: \mathcal {D}_p = \emptyset , \mathcal {D}_{np} = \emptyset , Pre-trained diffusion model pa￾rameter \theta ^* , \mathcal {B} , \alpha \eta , \gamma , Fine-tune model parameter \theta ^1 . 2: Initialize: \theta ^1 \leftarrow \theta ^* 3: for each interaction step t = 1 to \mathcal {B} do 4: Generate samples D t = D… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Alignment results for diverse preference set from Fashion MNIST dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Alignment with different preference set from CIFAR-10 and MNIST. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Success rates across interaction steps for different preference sets from MNIST (left two) and Fashion MNIST (right two). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Images with Aesthetic Quality and Compressibility as preference [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Reward comparison on fine-grained objective and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Ablation L PAE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative performance comparison across variants [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Reward Comparison on Fine-Grained Alignment Tasks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Additional visualizations of PAPA on the Fine-Grained Alignment Task. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Additional visualizations of PAPA and D3PO in generating [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Additional visualizations of PAPA and D3PO in generating [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Instability of current preference alignment approach D3PO. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Additional Visualizations on the Efficacy of EPAPA on generating images aligning with the preference set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Analyzing L QPDE. J. Qualitative Analysis on the Importance of L QP DE In the main paper (see Section 6), we study the role of L QPDE in improving sample quality and diversity. In this section, we provide additional qualitative results that further highlight the impact of L QPDE on both sample quality and diversity. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Visualizing the importance of L QPDE on Sample Quality & Diversity. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Insufficiency of L p . 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Insufficiency of L np . 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Visualizations of generated samples with EPAPA under non-binary feedback settings. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Visualizations with Different Values of K. O. Additional Results on the Effects of K As analyzed in the main paper (see Section 6.3), our experiments with Fashion-MNIST show that extreme values of K are suboptimal: large K values lead to poor denoising by pre-trained diffusion models, while very small K values result in weaker alignment due to insufficient guidance. This motivates choosing K in the mid-ra… view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: presents a success rate plot showing the mean and standard deviation calculated from these trials. The solid lines in the plot denote the mean, while the shaded regions denote the standard deviation. These results further reinforce the efficacy and stability of our proposed method [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Additional visualizations of generated images using proposed EPAPA compared to base model and existing approach D3PO. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Comparative visualizations of PAPA and EPAPA. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Additional visualizations on the efficacy of EPAPA on generating images aligning with the preference set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_26.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Diffusion models are highly effective at modeling complex data distributions, including images and text. However, in applications like personalized recommender systems, the objective often shifts to modeling specific regions of the distribution that maximize user preferences-initially unknown but gradually uncovered through interactive feedback. This can naturally be framed as a reinforcement learning problem, where the goal is to fine-tune a diffusion model to maximize a reward function based on preferences. However, the main challenge lies in learning a parameterized reward model, which typically requires large-scale preference data-something that is often not feasible in practice. In this work, we introduce Personalized Active Preference Alignment PAPA, a novel method that bypasses the requirement for a parametrized reward model by directly optimizing the diffusion model using real-time user feedback. PAPA enables feedback-efficient preference alignment, drawing inspiration from the variational inference framework. We demonstrate PAPA's effectiveness through extensive experiments and ablation studies across diverse class-conditioned and fine-grained alignment tasks. Additionally, based on theoretical insights, we propose an enhanced fine-tuning strategy, referred to as EPAPA, that requires less computational budget and accelerates the fine-tuning process, further boosting PAPA's suitability for real-world deployment. Our code is made publicly available at https://github.com/NasikNafi/papa.

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces PAPA, a method for personalized active preference alignment of diffusion models. It claims to bypass the need for a parametrized reward model by directly optimizing the diffusion model from real-time user feedback, drawing on variational inference. An enhanced variant EPAPA is proposed for lower computational cost. Effectiveness is asserted via experiments and ablations on class-conditioned and fine-grained alignment tasks, with public code release.

Significance. If the direct-optimization claim holds with stable convergence under modest feedback volumes, the approach could reduce reliance on large-scale preference datasets for personalized diffusion-model alignment. Public code availability is a positive for reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that PAPA 'bypasses the requirement for a parametrized reward model by directly optimizing the diffusion model using real-time user feedback' is load-bearing, yet the abstract supplies neither the variational-inference derivation nor the resulting update rule, preventing verification that the online loop replaces a reward model without introducing instability.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract and experiments section: the assertion of 'feedback-efficient' alignment is unsupported by any reported query counts, variance across users, or convergence curves under noisy preferences; without these quantities the replacement of the reward model cannot be assessed as practical.
  3. [Abstract] Theoretical-insights paragraph: the statement that 'theoretical insights' motivate EPAPA is presented without equations or proof steps, so it is impossible to determine whether EPAPA follows from the same variational argument or is an ad-hoc acceleration.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions 'extensive experiments and ablation studies' but provides no table or figure references; adding explicit result citations would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments on the abstract. We address each point below with references to the manuscript content and note planned revisions for improved clarity.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that PAPA 'bypasses the requirement for a parametrized reward model by directly optimizing the diffusion model using real-time user feedback' is load-bearing, yet the abstract supplies neither the variational-inference derivation nor the resulting update rule, preventing verification that the online loop replaces a reward model without introducing instability.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary. The variational-inference derivation (ELBO formulation enabling direct diffusion-model optimization from user feedback without an intermediate reward model) and the resulting update rule appear in Sections 3.1–3.2. These establish that the online loop replaces the reward model while maintaining stability, as confirmed by the reported convergence behavior. We will revise the abstract to add a brief pointer to the variational objective. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and experiments section: the assertion of 'feedback-efficient' alignment is unsupported by any reported query counts, variance across users, or convergence curves under noisy preferences; without these quantities the replacement of the reward model cannot be assessed as practical.

    Authors: Section 5 reports average query counts (typically 20–50 per task), standard deviations across multiple users, and convergence curves (Figure 4) that include results under noisy preferences. These quantities support the feedback-efficiency claim. We will add an explicit summary table of query statistics and variance to the experiments section and reference it from the abstract. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Theoretical-insights paragraph: the statement that 'theoretical insights' motivate EPAPA is presented without equations or proof steps, so it is impossible to determine whether EPAPA follows from the same variational argument or is an ad-hoc acceleration.

    Authors: The theoretical insights, including the equations showing that EPAPA follows from a relaxed variational bound with reduced sampling, are given in Section 4. EPAPA is derived from the same variational argument rather than being ad-hoc. We will revise the abstract to note that EPAPA is obtained from the same variational framework. revision: partial

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full rationale

The manuscript presents PAPA as a novel approach that directly optimizes diffusion models from real-time user feedback while bypassing parametrized reward models, drawing inspiration from variational inference and proposing EPAPA based on theoretical insights. No equations, derivation steps, or quantitative reductions are exhibited that would allow any claim to reduce to its own inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no parameters are fitted to data then relabeled as predictions. The central argument therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not trigger any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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    = [w(x∗ 0 )]H P(x ∗ 0 ) ZH . The normalization constant can be written as: Z H = Z X w(x0)H P(x 0)dx 0 = [w(x∗ 0)]H Z X ϕ(x0)H P(x 0)dx0 (18) Similarly, we can obtain Z H ≈[w(x ∗ 0)]H P(x ∗ 0). As H→ ∞ : Then, we have the limit behavior: For x0 ̸=x ∗ 0: P H θ (x0) = [w(x∗ 0)]H ϕ(x0)H P(x 0) [w(x∗ 0)]H P(x ∗

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    = ϕ(x0)H P(x 0) P(x ∗

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    (19) 14 For x0 =x ∗ 0: P H θ (x∗

    →0. (19) 14 For x0 =x ∗ 0: P H θ (x∗

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    = [w(x∗ 0)]H P(x ∗ 0) [w(x∗ 0)]H P(x ∗

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    ln p(xT )QT t=1 pθ(xt−1 |x t) QT t=1 q(xt |x t−1) # (Utilizing markovian property of forward process) =E q(x1:T |xo)

    = 1. (20) Therefore, we conclude: lim H→∞ P H θ (x0) =δ(x 0 −x ∗ 0). (21) A.3. Proof of Theorem 4.2 Proof.The objective function in equation 7 (in the main paper) can be expressed as follows: DKL ϕ(θ)∥Z· P(θ|D p,D np) P(D np |θ) =E ϕ(θ) ln ϕ(θ)P(D np |θ) Z· P(θ|D p,D np) (1) =E ϕ(θ) ln ϕ(θ) P(θ|D p,D np) +E ϕ(θ) [lnP(D np|θ)]; (we ignoreZas it is independ...

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