# Demographic Pluralism: Inference-Time Modeling of Pluralistic Human Preference Distributions

**Published:** October 1, 2026
**Author:** Meng-Chen Wu, Qipin Chen, Ansh Jain, Tess Wood, Zhe Du, Si-Chi Chin
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in culturally sensitive settings, where alignment requires representing diverse preferences within populations. Yet existing methods model populations at coarse demographic or community levels and overlook within-group…

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