@inproceedings{zhoubian-etal-2026-deeper,
    title = "Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding",
    author = "Zhoubian, Sining  and
      Zhang, Xuanming  and
      Chen, Yuxuan  and
      Tang, Tianyi  and
      Yang, An  and
      Du, Sean  and
      Zheng, Chujie  and
      Huang, Fei  and
      Liu, Dayiheng  and
      Huang, Gao  and
      Zhou, Jingren",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1086/",
    pages = "24944--24970",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}