Auto-regressive next-token prediction is strictly equivalent to full-vocabulary maximum likelihood estimation in generative recommendation under bijective item-to-token-sequence mapping.
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On the Equivalence Between Auto-Regressive Next Token Prediction and Full-Item-Vocabulary Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Generative Recommendation--A Short Note
Auto-regressive next-token prediction is strictly equivalent to full-vocabulary maximum likelihood estimation in generative recommendation under bijective item-to-token-sequence mapping.