Top-b: Entropic Regulation of Relative Probability Bands in Autoregressive Language Processes
Probabilistic language generators are theoretically modeled as discrete stochastic processes, yet standard decoding strategies (Top-k, Top-p) impose static truncation rules that fail to accommodate the dynamic information density of natural language. This misalignment often forces a suboptimal trade-off: static bounds are either too restrictive for high-entropy creative generation or too permissive for low-entropy logical reasoning. In this work, we formalize the generation process as a trajectory through a relative probability manifold. We introduce Top-b (Adaptive Relative Band Sampling), a decoding strategy that regulates the candidate set via a dynamic bandwidth coefficient coupled strictly to the instantaneous Shannon entropy of the model's distribution. We provide a theoretical framework demonstrating that Top-b acts as a variance-minimizing operator on the tail distribution. Empirical validation on GPQA and GSM8K benchmarks indicates that Top-b significantly reduces generation entropy and inter-decoding variance while maintaining competitive reasoning accuracy, effectively approximating a self-regulating control system for autoregressive generation.
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