Apr 20
On the Rejection Criterion for Proxy-based Test-time Alignment
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The paper analyzes test-time alignment methods that use small proxy models to guide larger unaligned models. It critiques current confidence-based rejection criteria and proposes a new approach based on a conservative confidence bet to improve alignment performance.
Why it matters
Refining how small models guide larger ones via proxy-based alignment addresses the critical challenge of maintaining model performance during real-time inference.
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