View: Different tasks rely on sampling bottleneck, not just depth limits
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-02
Agreeing with a view on inference depth limits, the author notes the evidence is thin and that different tasks load differently in practice. For instance, some tasks actually need the sampling bottleneck to break ties and are not depth-limited at all.
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