Esteban Garces Arias, Nurzhan Sapargali, Christian Heumann, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher

The Truncation Blind Spot: How Decoding Strategies Systematically Exclude Human-Like Token Choices

arXiv:2603.18482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard decoding strategies for text generation, including top-k, nucleus sampling, and contrastive search, select tokens based on likelihood, restricting selection …