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arxiv: 2606.07988 · v1 · pith:YTATMK6Vnew · submitted 2026-06-06 · 💻 cs.AI

PAFO: Pareto Fairness Optimization for Personalized Reward Modeling

Xiaoyan Zhao , Haoting Ni , Yang Zhang , Chunyuan Zheng , Haoxuan Li , Fuli Feng This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.AI
keywords personalized reward modelingPareto fairnessLLM alignmentreward biasgroup fairnesspreference distillation
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PAFO distills separate majority and minority reward models into one unified model that raises accuracy for both groups on imbalanced preference data.

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

The paper identifies personalized reward bias as the tendency of reward models to perform worse on users whose preferences appear less often in training data. It recasts the problem as a Pareto fairness task whose goal is to lift performance for under-served groups without lowering performance for the rest. PAFO meets the goal by first fitting group-specialized models and then transferring their differing decision boundaries into a single model through conditional margin-level supervision. The resulting model needs group information only while training and produces fairer outputs at inference time. Experiments on two personalization benchmarks show simultaneous gains in minority-group and majority-group accuracy together with lower user-level disparity measures.

Core claim

PAFO trains separate reward models on majority and minority preference groups, then constructs conditional margin-level supervision signals that embed the heterogeneous boundaries of those models into one unified reward model; the unified model improves accuracy on both groups and reduces multiple user-level unfairness metrics while requiring no group labels after training.

What carries the argument

Conditional margin-level supervision that transfers heterogeneous preference boundaries from group-specialized reward models into a single unified model.

If this is right

  • Both minority-group and majority-group accuracy rise compared with standard training.
  • Multiple user-level unfairness metrics fall while overall performance improves.
  • The model operates at inference without any group label or demographic input.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same distillation step could be applied to other preference-learning settings that face population imbalance.
  • Removing the need for group labels at deployment may lower privacy and regulatory costs in production systems.
  • If the Pareto step can be made differentiable end-to-end, the framework might extend to online preference collection loops.

Load-bearing premise

Group-specialized reward models can be trained on the given imbalanced data and their differing boundaries can be distilled into one model without creating new distortions.

What would settle it

On the Personal-LLM or DSP test sets, the final unified model shows either lower minority-group accuracy than a standard personalized baseline or lower majority-group accuracy than the same baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.07988 by Chunyuan Zheng, Fuli Feng, Haoting Ni, Haoxuan Li, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Minority users suffer substantially lower reward predic￾tion accuracy than majority users, even under personalized RM. Reward models are central to the alignment of large language models, providing the scalar signals used to optimize policies in RLHF [1–3] and to select responses at test time [4, 5]. How￾ever, reward models are not neutral estimators of human judgment. Existing studies have shown that they… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Preliminary analysis on the Personal-LLM and DSP datasets across P-RLHF, VPL, and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of PAFO. (A) Imbalanced preference support leads to user-level unfairness in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Sensitivity of PAFO to the minority ratio. P-RLHF is shown as a reference. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Effect of the distillation weight α (α ↓, strength ↑). Effects of Distillation Strength. The coefficient α in Eq. 8 controls the trade-off between the distillation loss and the original BT reward modeling loss. We vary α ∈ {0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.8}, with results shown in Fig￾ure 5. The distillation strength has a much larger impact on Min Acc. than on Maj Acc.: Min Acc. increases first, then decreases as α inc… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of hidden state on personal-LLM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: PAFO’s performance with different numbers of historical examples on inputs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png] view at source ↗
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Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on reward models to align their outputs with diverse user preferences. While personalized reward models aim to capture such heterogeneity, they are often trained on imbalanced user preference data and may therefore favor users whose preferences are more common in the training population. In this paper, we identify this failure mode as personalized reward bias, where reward modeling quality varies systematically with preference support rate. We formulate its mitigation as a Pareto fairness problem over group utilities, aiming to improve under-served users without degrading other user groups. To this end, we propose PAFO, a Pareto fairness optimization framework for personalized reward modeling. PAFO first trains group-specialized reward models for majority and minority preference groups, then constructs conditional margin-level supervision to distill their heterogeneous preference boundaries into a single unified model. The resulting model uses group information only during training and requires no explicit group labels at inference time. Experiments on Personal-LLM and DSP show that PAFO improves both minority-group and majority-group accuracy while reducing user-level unfairness across multiple metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness for fairer LLM personalization.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper identifies 'personalized reward bias' in LLM reward models trained on imbalanced user preference data, where quality varies with preference support rate. It formulates mitigation as a Pareto fairness problem over group utilities and proposes PAFO: train separate group-specialized reward models on majority and minority groups, then distill their heterogeneous boundaries into one unified model via conditional margin-level supervision. The unified model requires no group labels at inference. Experiments on Personal-LLM and DSP datasets report simultaneous accuracy gains for both minority and majority groups plus reduced user-level unfairness across metrics.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work addresses a practically important failure mode in personalized LLM alignment. The two-stage specialized-then-distill approach is a concrete attempt to achieve Pareto improvements without inference-time group information. Credit is due for evaluating on two distinct datasets and multiple fairness metrics rather than a single contrived setting.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (method): The claim that conditional margin-level supervision successfully transfers heterogeneous boundaries from the two specialized models into a single model without new distortions or leakage is load-bearing for the Pareto claim, yet the manuscript provides no derivation, proof sketch, or formal statement showing that the supervision construction preserves the separate group utilities. The skeptic note correctly flags that minority models trained on low-support data may produce noisy boundaries that do not distill cleanly.
  2. [§5] §5 (experiments): The reported simultaneous gains for both groups rest on the distillation step, but the manuscript contains no ablation that isolates the contribution of the conditional margin supervision (e.g., comparison against a single model trained with standard loss or with group labels at inference). Without such controls it is impossible to confirm that the observed improvements are attributable to PAFO rather than other modeling choices.
minor comments (2)
  1. Notation for the margin-level supervision (how the conditioning variable is constructed and fed to the unified model) is introduced without an explicit equation or pseudocode; a small diagram or algorithm box would improve clarity.
  2. The definition of 'user-level unfairness' metrics should be stated explicitly in the main text rather than deferred entirely to the appendix, as these are central to the fairness claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive review and for highlighting areas where the manuscript can be strengthened. We respond point-by-point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (method): The claim that conditional margin-level supervision successfully transfers heterogeneous boundaries from the two specialized models into a single model without new distortions or leakage is load-bearing for the Pareto claim, yet the manuscript provides no derivation, proof sketch, or formal statement showing that the supervision construction preserves the separate group utilities. The skeptic note correctly flags that minority models trained on low-support data may produce noisy boundaries that do not distill cleanly.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript would benefit from a more formal treatment of the supervision construction. The conditional margin-level supervision is intended to distill heterogeneous boundaries by applying group-specific margin adjustments during the distillation phase, with the goal of preserving the specialized utilities in a single model that does not require group labels at inference. However, no derivation or proof sketch is provided, and the approach relies on empirical results. In the revision we will expand §3 with a detailed description of the supervision mechanism and add a proof sketch (under the assumption of accurate specialized models) together with a discussion of how noise in low-support minority boundaries may affect distillation quality. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (experiments): The reported simultaneous gains for both groups rest on the distillation step, but the manuscript contains no ablation that isolates the contribution of the conditional margin supervision (e.g., comparison against a single model trained with standard loss or with group labels at inference). Without such controls it is impossible to confirm that the observed improvements are attributable to PAFO rather than other modeling choices.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current experimental section does not contain the requested ablations to isolate the distillation component. While the reported results show simultaneous gains for both groups relative to standard personalized reward models on two datasets, they do not directly compare against a single model trained with standard loss or against an oracle with group labels at inference. In the revised manuscript we will add these controls in §5 to better attribute performance improvements to the conditional margin supervision step. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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PAFO framework is self-contained; no derivation reduces to its inputs by construction

full rationale

The abstract and described procedure introduce a training pipeline (specialized models followed by conditional margin distillation) that operates on external datasets and standard supervised learning steps. No equations, fitted parameters, or uniqueness claims are presented that loop back to the target result by definition. The central claim of Pareto improvement rests on empirical validation rather than self-referential definitions or self-citation chains. This matches the reader's assessment that the abstract contains no fitted quantities or circular indicators, confirming the derivation chain is independent.

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