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beam search curse: a standalone construct

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the drop in translation quality as beam width grows, because wider search finds shorter, higher-probability but worse outputs.

In natural language processing, beam search curse refers to the drop in translation quality as beam width grows, because wider search finds shorter, higher-probability but worse outputs. This meaning comes from Yang (2018) in arXiv.[1]

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References

Yang, Y., Huang, L., & Ma, M. (2018). Breaking the Beam Search Curse: A Study of (Re-)Scoring Methods and Stopping Criteria for Neural Machine Translation. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.09582

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