Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors

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gmcgoldr.github.ioby Garrin McGoldrickSeptember 4, 2026Submitted September 4, 2026

gmcgoldr's blog View My GitHub Profile Strictly speaking, the statement “LLMs are next-token predictors” isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. It’s a fine zeroth-order approximation, and it is...

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