Adaptive Decoding via Test-Time Policy Learning for Self-Improving Generation

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• A reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that learns to adapt LLM sampling parameters at test-time for improved and controllable generation quality without retraining. We introduce a reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that treats decoding as sequential decision-making and learns a lightweight policy to adjust sampling parameters at test-time while keeping LLM weights frozen.problem 35%
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  A reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that learns to adapt LLM sampling parameters at test-time for improved and controllable generation quality without retraining. We introduce a reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that treats decoding as sequential decision-making and learns a lightweight policy to adjust sampling parameters at test-time while keeping LLM weights frozen.

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• Decoding strategies largely determine the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs, yet widely used heuristics such as greedy or fixed temperature/top-p decoding are static and often task-agnostic, leading to suboptimal or inconsistent generation quality across domains that demand stylistic or structural flexibility. We introduce a reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that treats decoding as sequential decision-making and learns a lightweight policy to adjust sampling parameters at test-time while keeping LLM weights frozen.method 35%
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  Decoding strategies largely determine the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs, yet widely used heuristics such as greedy or fixed temperature/top-p decoding are static and often task-agnostic, leading to suboptimal or inconsistent generation quality across domains that demand stylistic or structural flexibility. We introduce a reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that treats decoding as sequential decision-making and learns a lightweight policy to adjust sampling parameters at test-time while keeping LLM weights frozen.

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• ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Reward ablations show that overlap-only objectives underperform compared to composite rewards, while structured shaping terms (length, coverage, repetition, completeness) enable stable and sustained improvements. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.result 35%
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  ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Reward ablations show that overlap-only objectives underperform compared to composite rewards, while structured shaping terms (length, coverage, repetition, completeness) enable stable and sustained improvements. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.

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• LLM Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.why now 35%
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  LLM Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.

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A reinforcement learning-based decoder sampler that learns to adapt LLM sampling parameters at test-time for improved and controllable generation quality without retraining.