arXiv:2602.01161v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The global deployment of large language models (LLMs) has raised concerns about cultural misalignment, yet the linguistic properties of fine-tuning...
By Reem I. Masoud, Chen Feng, Shunta Asano, Saied Alshahrani, Philip Colin Treleaven, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues
The paper introduces a bias depth score to differentiate between stable model preferences (Deep biases) and prompt‑dependent responses (Shallow biases) in large language models. By analyzing 4,442 opinion prompts across four models, it finds that only about a quarter of concentrated preferences persist after scenario reframing, indicating that most are shallow. The study shows Deep biases are more often inherited from pretraining and harder to remove through fine‑tuning or prompt‑based debiasing, highlighting the need to distinguish learned biases from prompt artifacts.
By An Vo, Vy Tuong Dang, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Thamar Solorio, Anh Totti Nguyen, Daeyoung Kim
arXiv:2604. 17289v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning of large language models relies on human-annotated data, yet annotation pipelines routinely involve multiple crowdworkers of heterogeneous expertise.
By Sajjad Ghiasvand, Mark Beliaev, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Ramtin Pedarsani
arXiv:2609.05899v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Aligning large language models with human preferences remains a challenge, primarily due to the critical role of preference data quality in effective...
By Peng Lai, He Zhu, Zhiwen Ruan, Dongdong Zhang, Yun Chen, Peng Li, Furu Wei, Yang Liu, Guanhua Chen
arXiv:2603. 09692v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its efficacy is bottlenecked by the high cost of acquiring preference data, especially in low-resource and expert domains.
By Davit Melikidze, Marian Schneider, Jessica Lam, Martin Wertich, Ido Hakimi, Barna P\'asztor, Andreas Krause
arXiv:2606. 09525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: During instruction fine-tuning (IFT), large language models (LLMs) learn to follow instructions by using the provided context to answer a query.
By Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Haeun Yu, Isabelle Augenstein