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Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding as an Interpretation of Self-Consistency
The self-consistency method can be formally interpreted as a search process that aims to minimize the Bayes risk. This framework seeks to identify the best possible output from a set of candidates by minimizing a defined risk function.

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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
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