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Omar Hagrass

2 accepted papers

2025

Decoding Game: On Minimax Optimality of Heuristic Text Generation Strategies

ICLR 2025poster

Decoding strategies play a pivotal role in text generation for modern language models, yet a puzzling gap divides theory and practice. Surprisingly, strategies that should intuitively be optimal, such as Maximum a Posteriori (MAP), often perform poorly in practice. Meanwhile, popular heuristic appro…

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