What is Guarded Decoding?

A decoding strategy that samples only from the k most likely next tokens.

A decoding strategy that samples from the smallest token set whose probabilities sum to p.

Logic that validates and converts model output into strongly typed, machine-usable structures.

An inference acceleration method where a small draft model proposes tokens that a larger model verifies in parallel.

A decoding setting that lowers the probability of tokens the model has already produced to reduce loops.

A decoding setting that reduces the probability of tokens proportionally to how often they've appeared so far.