arXiv AI November 5, 2026 By Zhanhong Jiang, Qisai Liu, Soumik Sarkar

Vision Paper: Why Distributed LLM Post-Training and Decentralized Alignment Are Now Essential

The paper argues that distributed learning—federated and decentralized—should be a core approach for large language model post‑training, rather than an optional privacy measure. It critiques current methods like RLHF and DPO for assuming centralized preference data, citing scientific, practical, and ethical flaws. The authors present a three‑pillar framework (privacy and data sovereignty, pluralism and representational equity, robustness and scalability), formalize technical challenges such as reference drift and preference heterogeneity, and outline algorithmic directions and a research agenda to make distributed post‑training feasible.

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