Alignment Tuning for Large Language Models: A Data-Centric Lens on Alignment Data Pipelines
Much of the alignment tuning literature is organized around optimization objectives, while the construction of alignment data is often treated implicitly. In this survey, we adopt a data centric perspective and reframe alignment tuning as a pipeline design problem. We decompose alignment data construction into three interacting stages, response synthesis, preference evaluation, and preference instantiation, and use this framework to organize existing alignment methods into a unified taxonomy. Through this lens, we identify recurring design trade-offs and failure modes observed across prior alignment methods, and distill a set of high level principles that clarify how pipeline design choic...
| Authors | Hwanjun Song |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 7 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 April 2026 |
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