Divide-Verify-Refine: Can LLMs Self-align with Complex Instructions? (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing research shows LLMs struggle with complex instructions involving multiple constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to divide complex instructions into single constraints and prepare appropriate tools to verify responses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework doubles Llama3.1-8B’s constraint adherence and triples Mistral-7B’ s performance. |
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