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DEEP THINK WITH CONFIDENCE

arxiv.org23 min read

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Meta AI researchers developed DeepThink with Confidence (DeepConf), a technique that uses internal confidence signals to cut LLM reasoning overhead by up to 84.7% while maintaining accuracy. The method monitors token-level confidence to terminate low-quality reasoning traces early, particularly when models generate uncertainty markers like "wait" or "think again."