Swiss-Knife: A Framework for Reconfigurable Externalised Multi-Objective Alignment at Decode Time

arXiv:2609.22226 · cs.CL, cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Comments: 19 pages, 3 figures, includes technical appendix and proofs

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment Methods — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Candidate-Batch Normalization — 1× in this paper

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