Beyond Pairs: Your Language Model is Secretly Optimizing a Preference Graph

arXiv:2605.08037 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Direct Preference Optimization — 2× in this paper
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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