https://nalar.dev/tags/alignment/ Recent content in Alignment on Nalar Hugo en-us Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/align-llms-with-direct-preference-optimization/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/align-llms-with-direct-preference-optimization/ <h1 id="align-llms-with-direct-preference-optimization">Align LLMs with Direct Preference Optimization</h1> <p>Supervised fine-tuning works well when you can provide a target response for each prompt. It becomes less natural when the signal is comparative: one answer is preferred over another, but neither is a perfect target to copy. <strong>Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)</strong> turns those preference pairs into a training objective for a language model without requiring a separately trained reward model or an online reinforcement step.</p>