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Your model repeats phrases and gets stuck in loops on long generations. How do you fix degeneration?

Neural text degeneration is a known failure of likelihood-maximizing decoding, not a broken model. The fixes are specific decode-time knobs. Here is which lever to pull and what each one costs.

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Neural text degeneration is a known failure of likelihood-maximizing decoding, not a broken model. The fixes are specific decode-time knobs. Here is which lever to pull and what each one costs.

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