@article{azerothorderparadigmforllmpreferencealig,
  title = {A Zeroth-Order Paradigm for LLM Preference Alignment},
  author = {Peter Chen and Xi Chen and Wotao Yin and Tianyi Lin},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2609.19144},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19144},
}