arXiv cs.CL
7/31/2026

BridgeAlign: Bridging Preference Alignment for Humanities and Social Sciences
Short summary
BridgeAlign is a preference-alignment pipeline for humanities and social sciences (HSS) with three phases: seed curation from web corpora, preference data synthesis via persona-based instruction inversion, and preference optimization using quality rubrics with controlled degradation. Aligning over 210K synthetic samples, Qwen3-8B achieved the best average across 17 benchmarks against 11 baselines, leading on both human-preference and knowledge-based capabilities without trade-offs.
- •Three-phase pipeline: seed curation, preference synthesis, rubric-grounded optimization
- •210K synthetic preference samples; Qwen3-8B beats 11 baselines across 17 benchmarks
- •No trade-off between human-preference and knowledge-based capabilities
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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