Greedy decoding in the context of language model word prediction refers to a decoding strategy where, at each step, the model selects the word with the highest probability (the most likely word). This approach is simple and straightforward but can sometimes lead to less diverse or creative outputs because it always opts for the most likely option without considering alternative sequences that might result in better overall sentences.
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Research papers on decoding strategies in language models
Technical documentation on language model inference methods