Conference
Open access
2026
What Tokens Truly Matter? The Logit Conflation Problem in LLM Sampling
This work identifies the Logit Conflation Problem, where a to-ken’s logit aggregates prompt-independent factors, including linguistic fluency and parametric associations, with prompt-relevance, and proposes SEAL-Sampling to isolate this component through attention-weighted attribution.
Pinlong Zhao, Huijun Tang, Pengfei Jiao et al.
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