@article{samplingforqualitytrainingfreerewardguid, title = {Sampling for Quality: Training-Free Reward-Guided LLM Decoding via Sequential Monte Carlo}, author = {Jelena Markovic-Voronov and Wenhui Zhu and Bo Long and Zhipeng Wang and Suyash Gupta and Kayhan Behdin and Bee-Chung Chen and Deepak Agarwal}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.16453}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16453}, }