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Inference & ServingHard· Gating· Confidence Scoring· System Design

You have budget for exactly one gating signal. Do you t...

Mechanistically, next-token probability scores fluency, which means a confident falsehood is indistinguishable from a confident truth. Therefore, token-level confidence is not a reliable indicator of accuracy. Operationally, a query-side signal is more efficient because it is readable before the generation process starts, allowing for better system control.

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