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Beam search

What does “Beam search” mean?

Beam search: Keeping several candidate sequences as generation proceeds and expanding the strongest candidates.

Beam search visual guide: Keeping several candidate sequences as generation proceeds and expanding the strongest candidates.
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What is an example of “Beam search”?

A translation decoder compares several partial sentences before selecting one.

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See also

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