Learning Heterogeneous Preferences
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arXiv:2609.17847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from human feedback has become a central paradigm for training modern AI systems, where models of human utility are used as reward models in policy learning. Existing methods typically assume a \emph{universal utility} function shared across a population and treat disagreement between annotators as stochastic variation. While suitable for objective tasks, this assumption breaks down in subjective domains where preferences vary systematically across individuals. We study the problem of subjective preference learning, in which observed cho
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.17847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from human feedback has become a central paradigm for training modern AI systems, where models of human utility are used as reward models in policy learning.
- Existing methods typically assume a \emph{universal utility} function shared across a population and treat disagreement between annotators as stochastic variation.
- While suitable for objective tasks, this assumption breaks down in subjective domains where preferences vary systematically across individuals.
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