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 ### ⚡ Factuality-aware Direct Preference Optimization promotes in reducing hallucinations and increase factualness
 
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+## 🙏 Acknowledgments
+Resources used in preparing this research were provided, in part, by the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada through CIFAR, and companies sponsoring the [Vector Institute](http://www.vectorinstitute.ai/#partners). This research was funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the AIXPERT project (Grant Agreement No. 101214389), which aims to develop an agentic, multi-layered, GenAI-powered framework for creating explainable, accountable, and transparent AI systems. 
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 **We invite researchers and practitioners to build upon this framework.**