Language Model Decoding as Likelihood-Utility Alignment

1 code implementation • 13 Oct 2022 • Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, Frano Rajic, Jiheng Wei, Debjit Paul, Valentin Hartmann, Barun Patra, Vishrav Chaudhary, Emre Kiciman, Boi Faltings, Robert West

Specifically, by analyzing the correlation between the likelihood and the utility of predictions across a diverse set of tasks, we provide empirical evidence supporting the proposed taxonomy and a set of principles to structure reasoning when choosing a decoding algorithm.

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