Confident Decoding selects reliable intermediate layers via entropy-guided backward search to bypass final-layer alignment perturbations in LLMs, improving reasoning performance.
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Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding
Confident Decoding selects reliable intermediate layers via entropy-guided backward search to bypass final-layer alignment perturbations in LLMs, improving reasoning performance.