K-Forcing: Joint Next-K-Token Decoding via Push-Forward Language Modeling

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arXiv:2606.10820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) language modeling is the dominant paradigm for text generation, yet its sequential token-by-token decoding makes inference memory-bound and inefficient. Existing acceleration approaches, such as speculative decoding and diffusion language models, can yield speedups under certain conditions but do not directly address high-load batch serving--the scenario most critical for industrial-scale deployment. We introduce K-Forcing, a

Published 10 Jun 2026

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Title: K-Forcing: Joint Next-K-Token Decoding via Push-Forward Language Modeling

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arXiv:2606.10820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) language modeling is the dominant paradigm for text generation, yet its sequential token-by-token decoding makes inference memory-bound and inefficient. Existing acceleration approaches, such as speculative decoding and diffusion language models, can yield speedups under certain conditions but do not directly address high-load batch serving--the scenario most critical for industrial-scale deployment. We introduce K-Forcing, a
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