NSF award 2544599 · Northwestern University at Chicago

CAREER: OPENALIGN: Towards Open-World Preference Alignment for Large Language Models

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Award number: 2544599
Period of support: 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sep 2031
Amount: $599,999
Awardee: Northwestern University at Chicago, Evanston, IL
Program: Info Integration & Informatics
Directorate: CSE

Abstract

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in critical domains such as healthcare, scientific discovery, and autonomous decision-making, ensuring that foundation AI models such as large language models (LLMs) align with human values and preferences has become essential for their safe and beneficial deployment. However, most existing approaches rely on large amounts of high-quality labeled…

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