arxivcs.AI2026-07-02
Distributionally Robust Listwise Preference Optimization
Xudong Wu, Jian Qian, Pangpang Liu, Vaneet Aggarwal, Jiayu Chen
Existing robust preference optimization for language-model alignment mainly studies pairwise supervision and places robustness at the dataset, prompt, or preference-pair level. We instead study listwise preference optimization under ranking-label uncertainty: given a prompt and a…