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A decoding algorithm that keeps the top-K candidate sequences at each step, instead of committing to a single greedy choice. Beam search trades extra compute for better-quality output and is common in machine translation. Sampling-based decoding has largely replaced beam search for open-ended chat, but the algorithm still matters for many production tasks.
Decoding strategy is a small part of the model that has a big effect on user-visible behavior. Knowing when to switch between sampling and beam search is a useful AI engineering skill.
A decoding algorithm that keeps the top-K candidate sequences at each step, instead of committing to a single greedy choice. Beam search trades extra compute for better-quality output and is common in machine translation. Sampling-based decoding has largely replaced beam search for open-ended chat, but the algorithm still matters for many production tasks.
Decoding strategy is a small part of the model that has a big effect on user-visible behavior. Knowing when to switch between sampling and beam search is a useful AI engineering skill.
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