The Alignment Tax: Response Homogenization in Aligned LLMs and Its Implications for Uncertainty Estimation

The Alignment Tax: Response Homogenization in Aligned LLMs and Its Implications for Uncertainty Estimation explores This research identifies and quantifies an 'alignment tax' causing response homogenization in LLMs, proposing a novel uncertainty estimation method to improve selective prediction accuracy and reduce computational costs.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in LLM Alignment & Uncertainty.