Odysseus Navigates the Sirens' Song: Dynamic Focus Decoding for Factual and Diverse Open-Ended Text Generation.
| Authors | Wen Luo 0001 et al. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Venue | ACL 2025 |
| Paper | View on ACL Anthology |
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