@article{250511183,
  title = {On Next-Token Prediction in LLMs: How End Goals Determine the Consistency of Decoding Algorithms},
  author = {Jacob Trauger and Ambuj Tewari},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2505.11183},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11183v1},
}