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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this work, please cite the paper below."
title: "Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero"
abstract: >-
  Synthetic Persona Pretraining (SPP) installs a desired assistant persona from
  token zero in pretraining by annotating pretraining documents with
  first-person moral reflections derived from a normative value constitution,
  pretraining on documents and reflections with the standard cross-entropy
  loss, and post-training on user-assistant dialogue data, which binds the
  desired persona to the assistant identity (persona binding). This umbrella
  repository collects the project's data-generation, training, and evaluation
  repositories as submodules.
type: software
repository-code: "https://github.com/epfl-dlab/spp"

authors:
  # First three authors: equal contribution, alphabetical order.
  - family-names: Minder
    given-names: Julian
    affiliation: "EPFL; MATS"
    email: julian.minder@epfl.ch
  - family-names: Moskvoretskii
    given-names: Viktor
    affiliation: EPFL
    email: viktor.moskvoretskii@epfl.ch
  - family-names: Singhal
    given-names: Raghav
    affiliation: EPFL
    email: raghav.singhal@epfl.ch
  - family-names: Jiao
    given-names: Difan
    affiliation: "University of Toronto"
  - family-names: Arditi
    given-names: Andy
    affiliation: "Northeastern University"
  - family-names: Cui
    given-names: Shaobo
    affiliation: "Shanghai Jiao Tong University"
  - family-names: Borjigin
    given-names: Yiderigun
    affiliation: "Saarland University"
  - family-names: Bali
    given-names: Kartik
    affiliation: "Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon; TUHH"
  - family-names: Krsteski
    given-names: Stefan
    affiliation: EPFL
  - family-names: Raj
    given-names: Harsh
    affiliation: "Northeastern University"
  - family-names: Nguyen
    given-names: Huu
    affiliation: "Ontocord AI"
  - family-names: Brinkmann
    given-names: Jannik
    affiliation: "TU Clausthal; Northeastern University"
  - family-names: Anderson
    given-names: Ashton
    affiliation: "University of Toronto"
  - family-names: Aydin
    given-names: Roland
    affiliation: "Saarland University; DFKI"
  - family-names: West
    given-names: Robert
    affiliation: EPFL
    email: robert.west@epfl.ch

preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero"
  year: 2026
  journal: "arXiv preprint"
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2608.13482
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13482"
  authors:
    - family-names: Minder
      given-names: Julian
    - family-names: Moskvoretskii
      given-names: Viktor
    - family-names: Singhal
      given-names: Raghav
    - family-names: Jiao
      given-names: Difan
    - family-names: Arditi
      given-names: Andy
    - family-names: Cui
      given-names: Shaobo
    - family-names: Borjigin
      given-names: Yiderigun
    - family-names: Bali
      given-names: Kartik
    - family-names: Krsteski
      given-names: Stefan
    - family-names: Raj
      given-names: Harsh
    - family-names: Nguyen
      given-names: Huu
    - family-names: Brinkmann
      given-names: Jannik
    - family-names: Anderson
      given-names: Ashton
    - family-names: Aydin
      given-names: Roland
    - family-names: West
      given-names: Robert