Dialectal robustness and generation are dissociated in LLMs: benchmarks are driven by pretraining and SFT while alignment reshapes generation invisibly to benchmarks, and the method maximizing dialectal reward is least preferred by human evaluators.
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DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation
Dialectal robustness and generation are dissociated in LLMs: benchmarks are driven by pretraining and SFT while alignment reshapes generation invisibly to benchmarks, and the method maximizing dialectal reward is least preferred by human evaluators.