@article{wang-etal-2026-explicit,
    title = "From Explicit to Implicit: A Theoretical Framework and Transfer Method for Preference Internalization in Language Models",
    author = "Wang, Binrui  and
      Du, Yongping  and
      Pei, Yu  and
      Wang, Zikai",
    journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "14",
    year = "2026",
    address = "Cambridge, MA",
    publisher = "MIT Press",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.tacl-1.48/",
    doi = "10.1162/tacl.a.697",
    pages = "1074--1095"
}