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The Parser Already Knows: Lightweight Bias Correction in Constrained Decoding

arXiv:2608.10137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grammar Constrained Decoding (GCD) forces Language Models (LMs) to produce syntactically valid outputs by masking out non-conforming tokens at each step. However, rigid masking distorts the model's underlying probability distribution, often biasing generation toward valid