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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 36 of 36 outbound references and 4 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.20627.

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This paper cites Anthropic.

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Anthropic

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching B \"o rgers

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Casper, X

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This paper cites MaxMin-RLHF: Alignment with Diverse Human Preferences.

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching MaxMin-RLHF: Alignment with Diverse Human Preferences

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Chowdhery, S

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This paper cites Conitzer, R.

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Conitzer, R

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This paper cites Dai and E.

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Dai and E

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This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Duersch, J

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Eloundou, S

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching GPT-4o System Card

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching An Overview of Large Language Models for Statisticians

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Jiang, X

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Statistical Impossibility and Possibility of Aligning LLMs with Human Preferences: From Condorcet Paradox to Nash Equilibrium

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Jackpot! Alignment as a Maximal Lottery

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching AI Alignment and Social Choice: Fundamental Limitations and Policy Implications

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Munos, M

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Noothigattu, D

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Novikov, N

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Openai o3 and o4-mini system card

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching Ouyang, J

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

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Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching On the Algorithmic Bias of Aligning Large Language Models with RLHF: Preference Collapse and Matching Regularization

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Game Theory Meets Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey with Taxonomy and New Frontiers cites this paper.

Game Theory Meets Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey with Taxonomy and New Frontiers Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

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Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory cites this paper.

Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

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Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration cites this paper.

Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

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Population-Level Generative Modeling for Ranking Data cites this paper.

Population-Level Generative Modeling for Ranking Data Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

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