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Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding

As of 5 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 24 of 24 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2606.21906.

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Observation fc86705e-cba9-471b-a09d-89369334a3e5 · outbound

This paper cites A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment

Reference 1

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Observation 56a2b02b-9856-476c-891e-c102a7078b3a · outbound

This paper cites Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens

Reference 2

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Observation 826b59a2-a2ce-4fa0-acb6-7e42761a6d72 · outbound

This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Reference 3

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Observation 859a0e6c-20e9-48ca-b059-040568c823db · outbound

This paper cites Transformer feed-forward layers build predictions by promoting concepts in the vocabulary space.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Transformer feed-forward layers build predictions by promoting concepts in the vocabulary space

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Observation d00e2c91-06fb-4487-bfe6-95648d3f4e3a · outbound

This paper cites Dissecting recall of factual associations in auto-regressive language models.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Dissecting recall of factual associations in auto-regressive language models

Reference 5

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Observation 952e87b1-bba6-49f9-9622-bdbbc1374099 · outbound

This paper cites How do llms use their depth?arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18871.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding How do llms use their depth?arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18871

Reference 6

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Observation c3c03b33-93ae-4c1e-9b8e-a3dc965aa4c5 · outbound

This paper cites Inference-time intervention: Eliciting truthful answers from a language model.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Inference-time intervention: Eliciting truthful answers from a language model

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Observation c3e836b1-9439-427f-9b68-4902d744ace3 · outbound

This paper cites Layer-order inversion: Rethinking latent multi-hop reasoning in large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03542,.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Layer-order inversion: Rethinking latent multi-hop reasoning in large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03542,

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Observation a5ce01a8-a7d6-474a-b21e-1c559e159c14 · outbound

This paper cites Diffskip: Differential layer skipping in large language models.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Diffskip: Differential layer skipping in large language models

Reference 9

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Observation cfc81bef-5d02-4bb7-92fe-c6c2037968f8 · outbound

This paper cites Accessed: 2026-02-16.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Accessed: 2026-02-16

Reference 10

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Observation ab7cb403-a851-4411-a81c-8d902bbfba7b · outbound

This paper cites Trusting your evidence: Hallucinate less with context-aware decoding.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Trusting your evidence: Hallucinate less with context-aware decoding

Reference 11

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Observation abbebdb4-c20b-4a27-a55e-1885be4bd1e2 · outbound

This paper cites The diminishing returns of early-exit decoding in modern llms.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23701,.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding The diminishing returns of early-exit decoding in modern llms.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23701,

Reference 12

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Observation 4a0a2670-43a2-498c-8f14-7aa5062c04d8 · outbound

This paper cites Dynamic early exit in reasoning models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15895, 2025a.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Dynamic early exit in reasoning models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15895, 2025a

Reference 13

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Observation adb5a8cd-525f-4eb4-ba82-8648338c1a5f · outbound

This paper cites Air-bench 2024: A safety benchmark based on regulation and policies specified risk categories.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Air-bench 2024: A safety benchmark based on regulation and policies specified risk categories

Reference 14

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Observation ea2ff94a-9bc1-461c-b619-a4c600dbde48 · outbound

This paper cites Active layer-contrastive decoding reduces halluci- nation in large language model generation.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Active layer-contrastive decoding reduces halluci- nation in large language model generation

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This paper cites Generalization or memorization: Dynamic decoding for mode steering.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Generalization or memorization: Dynamic decoding for mode steering

Reference 16

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Observation 226e3c31-4157-4fa4-b06e-8b18b4e1ae82 · outbound

This paper cites Cognition-of-thought elicits social-aligned reasoning in large language models.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Cognition-of-thought elicits social-aligned reasoning in large language models

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Observation 98e93fc6-c7c6-42b3-97e9-521667ff5931 · outbound

This paper cites Please describe the image.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Please describe the image

Reference 18

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Observation 9d1fd99d-8986-45af-ba9e-8d4a8fe9c7d3 · outbound

This paper cites Continual pre-training of language models.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Continual pre-training of language models

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This paper cites Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

Reference 20

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Observation f9842565-f8c5-4a8d-bbec-e797a694ef28 · outbound

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Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites You should think step-by-step and put your final answer within \boxed{}.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding You should think step-by-step and put your final answer within \boxed{}

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This paper cites You are an expert evaluator with extensive experience in evaluating response of given query.

Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding You are an expert evaluator with extensive experience in evaluating response of given query

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Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding Unresolved cited work

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