Tag: Next-Token Prediction

Sep 16
The Transition from Next-Token Prediction to Hierarchical Goal Planning

For more than a decade, the foundational dogma of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence rested upon an elegant, deceptively simple statistical objective: autoregressive next-token prediction. By training multi-layer transformer architectures to calculate the conditional probability distribution of the next discrete token given an antecedent sequence of text, research laboratories produced systems with breathtaking conversational […]