Zehao Li


2025

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Context-DPO: Aligning Language Models for Context-Faithfulness
Baolong Bi | Shaohan Huang | Yiwei Wang | Tianchi Yang | Zihan Zhang | Haizhen Huang | Lingrui Mei | Junfeng Fang | Zehao Li | Furu Wei | Weiwei Deng | Feng Sun | Qi Zhang | Shenghua Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

Reliable responses from large language models (LLMs) require adherence to user instructions and retrieved information. While alignment techniques help LLMs align with human intentions and values, improving context-faithfulness through alignment remains underexplored. To address this, we propose Context-DPO, the first alignment method specifically designed to enhance LLMs’ context-faithfulness. We introduce ConFiQA, a benchmark that simulates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios with knowledge conflicts to evaluate context-faithfulness. By leveraging faithful and stubborn responses to questions with provided context from ConFiQA, our Context-DPO aligns LLMs through direct preference optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Context-DPO significantly improves context-faithfulness, achieving 35% to 280% improvements on popular open-source models. Further analysis demonstrates that Context-DPO preserves LLMs’ generative capabilities while providing interpretable insights into context utilization.