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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 34 of 34 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2505.11183.

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Observation 42165bb6-5df2-4f85-b236-c842130665e5 · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms GPT-4 Technical Report

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This paper cites The pitfalls of next-token prediction.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms The pitfalls of next-token prediction

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Observation 23224b24-967d-4918-bcc9-d994a2c4bbc0 · outbound

This paper cites L., Jordan, M.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms L., Jordan, M

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This paper cites D., Dhariwal, P., Neelakantan, A., Shyam, P., Sastry, G., Askell, A., et al.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms D., Dhariwal, P., Neelakantan, A., Shyam, P., Sastry, G., Askell, A., et al

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This paper cites W., Sutton, C., Gehrmann, S., et al.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms W., Sutton, C., Gehrmann, S., et al

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Unresolved cited work

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Adaptive Decoding via Latent Preference Optimization.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Adaptive Decoding via Latent Preference Optimization

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This paper cites Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding

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Observation b63be0cc-2405-460f-bfbf-a48ed7eeffad · outbound

This paper cites and Zhou, Z.-H.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms and Zhou, Z.-H

Reference 10

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Observation 1d67d9d4-80cd-468b-b38e-0e2771203370 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Observation 4cde2e82-7c3e-4129-8491-050e366fa1ca · outbound

This paper cites OpenAI o1 System Card.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms OpenAI o1 System Card

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This paper cites O., Natarajan, N., Ravikumar, P.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms O., Natarajan, N., Ravikumar, P

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Observation 21637b57-bcea-48d8-9318-9162347eb5dd · outbound

This paper cites K., Pitrou, A., and Seibert, S.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms K., Pitrou, A., and Seibert, S

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This paper cites E., Rawat, A.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms E., Rawat, A

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This paper cites Reasoning Bias of Next Token Prediction Training.

On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Reasoning Bias of Next Token Prediction Training

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms and Giesselbach, S

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Unresolved cited work

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Language Models as Knowledge Bases?

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms G., Agarwal, S., and Tewari, A

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms and Ben-David, S

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms A Thorough Examination of Decoding Methods in the Era of LLMs

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms and Bartlett, P

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms Implicit Optimization Bias of Next-Token Prediction in Linear Models

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

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On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms and Zhu, J

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Pith citing papers

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Constraint-aware Learning of Probabilistic Sequential Models for Multi-Label Classification cites this paper.

Constraint-aware Learning of Probabilistic Sequential Models for Multi-Label Classification On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms

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