Analyzing a Flawed Verification Process in Text Generation
An engineer is implementing a system where a 'draft' model proposes a sequence of tokens, and a larger 'verification' model checks them. The engineer observes that the system sometimes accepts sequences that are locally plausible but become nonsensical. For example, after the verified text The cat sat on the, the system accepts the draft sequence mat. The mat.
The engineer's implementation calculates the probability for each proposed token in the draft sequence based only on the original input and the already verified text that precedes the draft. Based on this description, identify the fundamental flaw in how the verification model is calculating probabilities for the draft tokens and explain why this flaw leads to the observed errors.
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