A Markov category framework for language models provides an information-theoretic rationale for speculative decoding and shows that a quadratic surrogate to negative log-likelihood induces generalized CCA alignment in linear-softmax heads after normalization.
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A Markov Categorical Framework for Language Modeling
A Markov category framework for language models provides an information-theoretic rationale for speculative decoding and shows that a quadratic surrogate to negative log-likelihood induces generalized CCA alignment in linear-softmax heads after normalization.