Foundation Encoders Are All You Need for Preference-Aware Personalization

Abstract

Personalized image generation based on user behavior reflects individual preferences with minimal user intervention. However, existing studies often rely on inaccurate profiling, high resource costs, and model-specific designs, which jointly restrict creativity, diversity, and generality. To address these limitations, we propose FAN, a novel approach that enables preference-aware personalization using only foundation encoders, without additional structures. FAN performs tailored profiling to capture user preferences and reconstructs transformer-based encoders to integrate them while preserving target fidelity. Experiments show that FAN achieves robust personalization across various foundation text-to-image models. It also extends to applications such as CLIP retrieval, unCLIP, and vision-language models, seamlessly integrating into diverse encoders without fine-tuning.