{
  "id": "2505.14827",
  "title": "Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling",
  "authors": "Yufan Zhuang, Liyuan Liu, Chandan Singh, Jingbo Shang, Jianfeng Gao",
  "first_public": "2025-05-20",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2505.14827",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14827",
  "lens": [
    "continuous",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Feeds posterior expectations back into a language model so intermediate generation can remain continuous instead of sampling discrete tokens.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Yufan Zhuang",
    "Liyuan Liu",
    "Chandan Singh",
    "Jingbo Shang",
    "Jianfeng Gao"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-05-20",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2505.14827/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2505.14827/citation.bib",
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