The Alignment Problem in Constrained Code Generation · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2606.21619/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Alignment Problem in Constrained Code Generation — mentioned by time0uthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807004urn:hackerpapers:mention:2606.21619:49807004Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:40:52 GMT<p>What I mean is that, in general, constrained decoding can push model output off into less probable regimes. This is well studied; see for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21619. The mask may only retain very improbable logits. In pathological cases, the constrained output may be little better than noise filtered through the constraint. When using existing structured output APIs, it may not be possible to even know.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2606.21619/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE