VS-Standard achieves human-rated diversity scores of 2.39/3.06/3.01 for poem/story/joke vs. 1.90/2.74/1.83 for Direct prompting on 4-point scale

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• VS-Standard achieves 1.86x diversity gain at only 1.12x cost increase over Direct prompting on poem generationfinding0.856
  Cost-diversity trade-off analysis showing VS's practical efficiency
• VS increases diversity by 1.6-2.1x over direct prompting on creative writing tasks (poem, story, joke)finding0.849
  Core empirical result demonstrating VS's effectiveness on creative writing diversity
• VS-Standard achieves KL divergence of 0.12-0.13 from pretraining distribution on US state naming task, vs. 14.89-16.16 for Direct promptingfinding0.810
  Strong empirical evidence that VS recovers pretraining distribution while direct prompting collapses
• VS improves human evaluation scores by 25.7% on creative writing compared to direct promptingfinding0.802
  Human study result validating automatic diversity metrics for creative writing tasks
• VS-Standard achieves KL divergence of 0.027 from uniform distribution on dice roll simulation, vs. 0.926 for Direct promptingfinding0.801
  Shows VS enables LLMs to better approximate random behavior compared to direct prompting
• VS-Standard achieves KL divergence of 0.54 from pretraining distribution on Open-Ended QA, vs. 3.14 for Direct and 0.58 for Sequencefinding0.789
  Shows VS substantially better approximates the pretraining distribution than baseline methods
• After DPO stage, VS outperforms direct prompting by 182.6% on diversity in poem continuation using Tulu-70Bfinding0.787
  Demonstrates the magnitude of VS's advantage over direct prompting after aggressive alignment training
• All VS variants maintain refusal rates above 97% on StrongReject benchmark, within 0.3-0.8 percentage points of the Direct baselinefinding0.775
  Confirms VS does not compromise safety alignment while improving diversity