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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2309.09117/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2309.09117/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models — mentioned by OcelotBane</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590487</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2309.09117:38590487</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:57:41 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Convex sums of different models are also supported, as long as the models share the same vocabulary/tokenizers. As soon as models have different tokenizers, we cannot sum the outputs of the models unless we find some way to combine the vocabularies of both tokenizers. Applications of these convex sums could be (1) model ensembling and (2) Contrastive Decoding (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09117) which uses a formula very similar to TopPTopK(M_large, top_p=0.9) - 0.5 * M_small.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2309.09117/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37575139</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2309.09117:37575139</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:30:20 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Contrastive decoding improves reasoning in large language models&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;21 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2309.09117/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
