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How do you design stopping criteria and stop sequences for an LLM in production?

Generation has to stop somewhere, and the wrong stop rule either truncates answers or burns tokens on trailing garbage. Here is how the EOS token, stop strings, and max-token caps actually interact.

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Generation has to stop somewhere, and the wrong stop rule either truncates answers or burns tokens on trailing garbage. Here is how the EOS token, stop strings, and max-token caps actually interact.

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