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Gacha Decoding: Eliciting Diverse Generations Through Instruction Following

We introduce Gacha Decoding, an inference-time method for eliciting diverse language model generations that scales with model capability. Across open-ended domains (in-the-wild chat, creative writing, planning for image generation, and protein design), Gacha Decoding significantly outperforms existing generation diversity approaches at equal quality (up to 2.4x Vendi over the next-best prior…

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