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Beam search is no longer what open-ended text generation ships; maximising sequence likelihood produces bland, repetitive output, and production decoders use truncated stochastic sampling. It is still

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Beam search is no longer what open-ended text generation ships; maximising sequence likelihood produces bland, repetitive output, and production decoders use truncated stochastic sampling. It is still

Beam Search Decoding for Sequence Generation

A heuristic decoding strategy that keeps the b most probable partial sequences at each generation step instead of committing greedily, balancing search breadth against cost. Learners study how beam width trades quality for compute and how constraints can be injected to prune invalid continuations.