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Text Degeneration in LLMs: The Hidden Production Cost Inflating Inference by 42%
A structural failure mode in autoregressive language models causes fewer than 3% of requests to consume nearly half of total inference time. New research from DharmaOCR shows the problem is built into training objectives—and proposes a fix grounded in the training distribution itself.
Dr. Sana Okafor