Automata-based constraints for language model decoding · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2407.08103/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTAutomata-based constraints for language model decoding — mentioned by mcychttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654094urn:hackerpapers:mention:2407.08103:46654094Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:33:27 GMT<p>This is a fantastic guide! I did a lot of work on structured generation for my PhD. Here are a few other pointers for people who might be interested: Some libraries: - Outlines, a nice library for structured generation - https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines - Guidance (already covered by FlyingLawnmower in this thread), another nice library - https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance - XGrammar, a less-featureful but really well optimized constrained generation library - https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar - This one has a lot of cool technical aspects that make it an interesting project Some…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2407.08103/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL