MoPLEx: Estimating Plackett-Luce Mixture Models for Multi-Objective Alignment
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arXiv:2608.25200v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study learning a mixture of $k$ Plackett-Luce models from multi-way ranking responses from annotators that may represent heterogeneous underlying preferences. This problem has many applications in AI alignment and preference optimization. Prior work has studied mixtures of Bradley-Terry models from pairwise comparisons. However, estimating a mixture of multi-way ranking models can become theoretically unidentifiable when $k$ exceeds $m/2$, where $m$ is the ranking length. We design an efficient algorithm to address this issue by firs
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- arXiv:2608.25200v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study learning a mixture of $k$ Plackett-Luce models from multi-way ranking responses from annotators that may represent heterogeneous underlying preferences.
- This problem has many applications in AI alignment and preference optimization.
- Prior work has studied mixtures of Bradley-Terry models from pairwise comparisons.
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