@article{whendollmpreferencespredictdownstreambeh, title = {When Do LLM Preferences Predict Downstream Behavior?}, author = {Katarina Slama and Alexandra Souly and Dishank Bansal and Henry Davidson and Christopher Summerfield and Lennart Luettgau}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.18971}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18971}, }