2 papers
cs.CL2026
Don't Repeat Yourself: Stopping Verbatim Loops at Sampling Time
Philipp Emanuel Weidmann, Allen Roush, Judah Goldfeder +2
Large Language Models generate text autoregressively, but open-ended generation is prone to verbatim looping, in which models repeat spans already present in context. Standard defe…
cs.CL2026
XTC: Head-Aware Sampling by Excluding Top Choices
Philipp Emanuel Weidmann, Allen Roush, Judah Goldfeder +2
Standard decoding rules for autoregressive language models promote diversity by rescaling the full next-token distribution or truncating its low-probability tail. These strategies…