lmfaoooo at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Is an Audience. Preference Modeling for Constrained Humor Generation

In three linesHumor generation system for SemEval-2026 Task-1 (MWAHAHA) using a "generate-many → select-best" strategy. Diverse candidate generation via multi-step prompting and model ensembling, then selection using a preference model trained on 2.5K human pairwise judgments. Ranked 1st in English and Chinese subtasks, 2nd in Spanish.

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