Hierarchical Alignment: Enforcing Hierarchical Instruction-Following in LLMs through Logical Consistency

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Auteurs principaux:	Yang, Shu, Zhou, Zihao, Wang, Di, Li, Wenda
Format:	Preprint
Publié:	2026
Sujets:	Computation and Language
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