@article{
trauger2026on,
title={On Next-Token Prediction in {LLM}s: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms},
author={Jacob Trauger and Ambuj Tewari},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=96S5nE51L8},
note={}
}