@article{aprincipledlossfunctionfordirectlanguage,
  title = {A Principled Loss Function for Direct Language Model Alignment},
  author = {Yuandong Tan},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2508.07137},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07137},
}