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Constrained Decoding
Constrained decoding forces a model's output to match a schema or grammar by masking the logits at each step so the model can only sample tokens the grammar still allows. It guarantees structurally valid output (JSON, SQL, a fixed enum) at a small latency cost, which is why FDE loops reach for it the moment a pipeline depends on parseable model output.
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