AI & MLRecommendedAIML-LM-027
Structured Output and Constrained Decoding
Forcing generations to follow a grammar or schema by masking invalid tokens at each step.
- Difficulty
- 3 / 5
- Importance
- 4 / 5
- Study time
- 1–2 h
- Kind of work
- Mixed
Why it matters
The learner can apply a grammar mask to next-token probabilities and explain how constraints change the output distribution.