arXiv Machine Learning By Weisi Yang, Zipeng Sun, Stephen Xia

Depth Exploration for LLM Decoding

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arXiv:2606. 29223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive LLM decoding evaluates every generated token through the full layer stack, even though many tokens become predictable at intermediate depths.

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