@article{deeperisnotalwaysbettermitigatingthealig,
  title = {Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding},
  author = {Xuanming Zhang and Sining Zhoubian and Yuxuan Chen and Tianyi Tang and An Yang and Sean Du and Chujie Zheng and Fei Huang and Dayiheng Liu and Gao Huang and Jingren Zhou},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.21906},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21906},
}