Working Paper

Balancing Engagement and Polarization: Multi-Objective Alignment of News Content Using LLMs

Mengjie (Magie) Cheng, Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan

May 19, 2025

Develops a Multi-Objective Direct Preference Optimization (MODPO) algorithm that can balance objectives of increased engagement for news content while maintaining editorial alignment without exacerbating polarization as baseline large language models do.

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