DVMap: Fine-Grained Pluralistic Value Alignment via High-Consensus Demographic-Value Mapping (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on coarse-grained national labels for pluralistic value alignment. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for fine-grained pluralistic value alignment using demographic constraints. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can identify groups with predictable, high-consensus value preference . it achieves 48.6% accuracy, surpassing open-source LLM DeepSeek-v3.2 . |
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