Schema-constrained decoding

What is Schema-constrained decoding?

Generation method that restricts possible output tokens so responses follow a required structure

In other languages

한국어스키마 제한 디코딩

모델 출력이 미리 정한 데이터 구조와 형식을 따르도록 생성 과정을 제한하는 기법이다

日本語スキーマ制約デコーディング

生成時に出力形式の規則を課し、指定された構造に合わないトークンを選べないようにする手法

Related Terms

• Constrained DecodingA technique that restricts a language model to select only tokens conforming to specific grammar or format rules when predicting the next word.
• Speculative decodingA text generation technique where a small, fast model proposes candidate tokens first, and a larger model verifies them, improving generation speed.
• Parallel DecodingA text generation method that produces multiple tokens in a single step, reducing latency.
• Decoder-onlyA neural network design that generates or processes sequences using only a decoder component.
• Fill-in-the-MiddleCode-generation prompting method where a model predicts missing code between surrounding prefix and suffix context
• Nucleus samplingA decoding method that restricts the model's choice of next tokens to the smallest possible set whose cumulative probability exceeds a predefined threshold (top-p).
• LatticeStructured representation that can encode multiple possible sequences or alternatives in language processing
• Error-correcting output codesA method for handling many-class classification by encoding class labels as codewords and decoding model outputs to a class.