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VA-DPO: Valence-Arousal Direct Preference Optimization for Controllable Emotion Generation in Language Models

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arXiv:2608.20374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How precisely can we tell a language model how to feel? Most work on emotional generation answers with a discrete label - happy, angry, sad - which cannot express a target like "mildly downcast but calm." We instead specify the desired affect as a con…

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  1. 2026-08-24 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    VA-DPO: Valence-Arousal Direct Preference Optimization for Controllable Emotion Generation in Language Models

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