Introduces TBPO, which derives a Bregman-divergence density-ratio matching objective for token-level preference optimization that generalizes DPO while preserving the induced optimal policy.
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PNAPO augments preference data with prior noise pairs and uses straight-line interpolation to create a tighter surrogate objective for offline alignment of rectified flow models.
PairAlign learns compact variable-length token sequences for audio via self-alignment on paired content-preserving views, achieving 55% fewer archive tokens than VQ while preserving edit-distance retrieval at 12.71 tokens/s.
WizardLM uses LLM-driven iterative rewriting to generate complex instruction data and fine-tunes LLaMA to reach over 90% of ChatGPT capacity on 17 of 29 evaluated skills.
COALA applies convex optimization reformulations of neural networks to direct preference optimization, claiming single-GPU training with ~18% of DPO's TFLOPs and competitive performance on multiple datasets and models up to 8B parameters.
Response times modeled as drift-diffusion processes enable consistent estimation of population-average preferences from heterogeneous anonymous binary choices.
GroupDPO decouples group-wise preference optimization during backpropagation to cut peak memory while keeping the same gradients, allowing larger groups and consistent gains over single-pair DPO plus an NLL term on positives.
OOWM models the world as an explicit symbolic tuple with UML diagrams and trains via SFT plus GRPO to outperform text-based CoT on embodied planning benchmarks.
Introduces OU-AGs framework and GOOD online inference method to extract ranked natural-language goal distributions from open-ended dialogue, improving alignment in shopping, robotics, and coding domains.
HybridFlow combines single- and multi-controller paradigms with a 3D-HybridEngine to deliver 1.53x to 20.57x higher throughput for various RLHF algorithms compared to prior systems.
UNA unifies binary, pairwise, and score-based feedback for LLM alignment via a generalized implicit reward function shown optimal by the log sum inequality.
DeepSeekMath 7B reaches 51.7% on MATH via continued pretraining on curated web math data and Group Relative Policy Optimization.
Hybrid-DPO, which trains LLMs on preference pairs scored by a DeBERTa NLI entailment signal plus a verifier fluency score, improves NLI entailment over SFT in 11 of 15 model-domain cells and documents a persistent verbosity bias in GPT-4o-mini judging.
POPI distills user preferences into reusable natural-language summaries via a shared inference model and conditions a generator on them, trained jointly with RL to improve personalization quality while cutting context length by up to 10x on benchmarks.
Derives SimPO from MaxEnt RL and reports that MaxEnt RL in online RLHF exhibits frequent overoptimization and unstable KL dynamics across scales, unlike stable KL-constrained baselines.
Survey organizes LLM trustworthiness into seven categories and 29 sub-categories, measures eight sub-categories on popular models, and finds that more aligned models generally score higher but with varying effectiveness.
RAFT aligns generative models by ranking samples with a reward model and fine-tuning only on the top-ranked outputs, reporting gains on reward scores and automated metrics for LLMs and diffusion models.
BV-Blend blends prompt-local and semantic-cluster historical reward statistics via SEM-derived weights to stabilize critic-free RL advantage estimation.
The paper delivers the first systematic review of self-evolving agents, structured around what components evolve, when adaptation occurs, and how it is implemented.
A survey on LLM-as-a-Judge that reviews reliability strategies, proposes evaluation methods, and introduces a novel benchmark for assessing such systems.
A comprehensive survey of knowledge distillation for LLMs structured around algorithms, skill enhancement, and vertical applications, highlighting data augmentation as a key enabler.
Survey of harmful fine-tuning attacks on LLMs, their variants, defense strategies, mechanical analysis, and evaluation methodologies.
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TokenRatio: Principled Token-Level Preference Optimization via Ratio Matching
Introduces TBPO, which derives a Bregman-divergence density-ratio matching objective for token-level preference optimization that generalizes DPO while preserving the induced optimal policy.
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Offline Preference Optimization for Rectified Flow with Noise-Tracked Pairs
PNAPO augments preference data with prior noise pairs and uses straight-line interpolation to create a tighter surrogate objective for offline alignment of rectified flow models.
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PairAlign: A Framework for Sequence Tokenization via Self-Alignment with Applications to Audio Tokenization
PairAlign learns compact variable-length token sequences for audio via self-alignment on paired content-preserving views, achieving 55% fewer archive tokens than VQ while preserving edit-distance retrieval at 12.71 tokens/s.
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WizardLM: Empowering large pre-trained language models to follow complex instructions
WizardLM uses LLM-driven iterative rewriting to generate complex instruction data and fine-tunes LLaMA to reach over 90% of ChatGPT capacity on 17 of 29 evaluated skills.
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Convex Optimization for Alignment and Preference Learning on a Single GPU
COALA applies convex optimization reformulations of neural networks to direct preference optimization, claiming single-GPU training with ~18% of DPO's TFLOPs and competitive performance on multiple datasets and models up to 8B parameters.
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Response Time Enhances Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
Response times modeled as drift-diffusion processes enable consistent estimation of population-average preferences from heterogeneous anonymous binary choices.
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GroupDPO: Memory efficient Group-wise Direct Preference Optimization
GroupDPO decouples group-wise preference optimization during backpropagation to cut peak memory while keeping the same gradients, allowing larger groups and consistent gains over single-pair DPO plus an NLL term on positives.
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OOWM: Structuring Embodied Reasoning and Planning via Object-Oriented Programmatic World Modeling
OOWM models the world as an explicit symbolic tuple with UML diagrams and trains via SFT plus GRPO to outperform text-based CoT on embodied planning benchmarks.
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Flexible Agent Alignment with Goal Inference from Open-Ended Dialog
Introduces OU-AGs framework and GOOD online inference method to extract ranked natural-language goal distributions from open-ended dialogue, improving alignment in shopping, robotics, and coding domains.
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HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Framework
HybridFlow combines single- and multi-controller paradigms with a 3D-HybridEngine to deliver 1.53x to 20.57x higher throughput for various RLHF algorithms compared to prior systems.
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UNA: A Unified Supervised Framework for Efficient LLM Alignment Across Feedback Types
UNA unifies binary, pairwise, and score-based feedback for LLM alignment via a generalized implicit reward function shown optimal by the log sum inequality.
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DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
DeepSeekMath 7B reaches 51.7% on MATH via continued pretraining on curated web math data and Group Relative Policy Optimization.
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RLearner-LLM: Balancing Logical Grounding and Fluency in Large Language Models via Hybrid Direct Preference Optimization
Hybrid-DPO, which trains LLMs on preference pairs scored by a DeBERTa NLI entailment signal plus a verifier fluency score, improves NLI entailment over SFT in 11 of 15 model-domain cells and documents a persistent verbosity bias in GPT-4o-mini judging.
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POPI: Personalizing LLMs via Optimized Natural Language Preference Inference
POPI distills user preferences into reusable natural-language summaries via a shared inference model and conditions a generator on them, trained jointly with RL to improve personalization quality while cutting context length by up to 10x on benchmarks.
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Failure Modes of Maximum Entropy RLHF
Derives SimPO from MaxEnt RL and reports that MaxEnt RL in online RLHF exhibits frequent overoptimization and unstable KL dynamics across scales, unlike stable KL-constrained baselines.
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Trustworthy LLMs: a Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models' Alignment
Survey organizes LLM trustworthiness into seven categories and 29 sub-categories, measures eight sub-categories on popular models, and finds that more aligned models generally score higher but with varying effectiveness.
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RAFT: Reward rAnked FineTuning for Generative Foundation Model Alignment
RAFT aligns generative models by ranking samples with a reward model and fine-tuning only on the top-ranked outputs, reporting gains on reward scores and automated metrics for LLMs and diffusion models.
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BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards
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A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence
The paper delivers the first systematic review of self-evolving agents, structured around what components evolve, when adaptation occurs, and how it is implemented.
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A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge
A survey on LLM-as-a-Judge that reviews reliability strategies, proposes evaluation methods, and introduces a novel benchmark for assessing such systems.
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A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
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Harmful Fine-tuning Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models: A Survey
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