Listen to the Layers: Mitigating Hallucinations with Inter-Layer Disagreement

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Source paper: Listen to the Layers: Mitigating Hallucinations with Inter-Layer Disagreement

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09486v1

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We propose the CoCoA (Confusion and Consistency Aware) decoder, a novel, training-free decoding algorithm that mitigates hallucinations at inference time by listening to these signals in the middle layers.
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Extensive experiments on diverse tasks, including question-answering, summarization and code generation demonstrate that CoCoA significantly improves factual correctness across multiple model families (e.g., Llama-3, Qwen-2.5, Mistral).
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We further propose a self-information gated variant, CoCoA-SIG, that dynamically modulates this penalty to selectively target high-surprise, unstable generations.
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The approach might still require fine-tuning of penalization factors per application, and its effectiveness could vary between models not covered in the study.
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The product can be marketed as an add-on or plug-in for existing LLM solutions, enhancing reliability in high-stakes applications such as healthcare diagnostics, automated reporting, and AI customer service bots.
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By leveraging model-intrinsic signals, CoCoA offers an effective and broadly applicable method for enhancing the trustworthiness of LLMs at inference time, without requiring any model retraining.
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By measuring representational instability across middle layers, CoCoA dynamically adjusts decoding strategies without needing additional training, ensuring more factually consistent outputs.
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we propose the CoCoA (Confusion and Consistency Aware) decoder, a novel, training-free decoding algorithm that mitigates hallucinations at inference time by listening to these signals in the middle layers.
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We propose two metrics to quantify this instability in the middle layers, and use it to penalize outputs that exhibit high internal confusion.
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we propose the CoCoA (Confusion and Consistency Aware) decoder, a novel, training-free decoding algorithm that mitigates hallucinations at inference time by listening to these signals in the middle layers.
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Extensive experiments on diverse tasks, including question-answering, summarization and code generation demonstrate that CoCoA significantly improves factual correctness across multiple model families (e.g., Llama-3, Qwen-2.5, Mistral).
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