2 papers
cs.CL2025
Alternatives To Next Token Prediction In Text Generation -- A Survey
Charlie Wyatt, Aditya Joshi, Flora Salim
The paradigm of Next Token Prediction (NTP) has driven the unprecedented success of Large Language Models (LLMs), but is also the source of their most persistent weaknesses such as…
cs.CL2025
What am I missing here?: Evaluating Large Language Models for Masked Sentence Prediction
Charlie Wyatt, Aditya Joshi, Flora Salim
Transformer-based models primarily rely on Next Token Prediction (NTP), which predicts the next token in a sequence based on the preceding context. However, NTP's focus on single-t…