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Instruction Quality Matters: Refining Instructions for Effective Preference Learning
Preference learning optimizes models using response pairs, yet the informativeness of these pairs is fundamentally shaped by the instructions from which they are generated. We identify instruction quality as a hidden bottleneck in preference learning: low-quality or ambiguous instructions restrict the response-quality distribution, limiting strong chosen responses and weakening preference signals. Through Best- and Worst-of-N analyses, we show that instruction quality constrains both the ceiling and floor of sampled response quality. Motivated by this observation, we introduce an instruction-r
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-08-27T08:09:36.000Z
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