Decoding Strategies and Output Control in Large Language Models: An Engineering Blueprint
Language models do not produce finalized text in a single step. At their core, modern autoregressive Transformer architectures compute unnormalized log probabilities—known as logits—over a discrete vocabulary for every position in a sequence. The process of transforming these raw logit vectors into human-readable text is governed entirely by the decoding algorithm. While model fine-tuning and … Read more