@article{understandingtheperformancegapin, title = {Understanding the Performance Gap in Preference Learning: A Dichotomy of RLHF and DPO}, author = {Ruizhe Shi and Minhak Song and Runlong Zhou and Zihan Zhang and Maryam Fazel and Simon S. Du}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.19770}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19770v1}, }