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The Truncation Blind Spot: How Decoding Strategies Systematically Exclude Human-Like Token Choices
arXiv:2603.18482v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard decoding strategies for text generation, including top-$k$, nucleus sampling, and contrastive search, select tokens based on likelihood, restricting outputs to high-probability regions. In contrast, human language production prioritizes communicative appropri