arXiv Machine Learning By Bin Luo, Param Venkat Vivek Kesireddy, Anil Vallepu

Reliability-Weighted Direct Preference Optimization: Penalized Weights for Robust Preference Learning

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arXiv:2610. 41588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) treats every reported comparison as correct, yet preference data contain reversed, tied or otherwise noisy comparisons.

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