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A generation limit or another stopping condition may be reached before the sentence is complete. Applications should detect truncation and handle it appropriately.
How does an LLM generate a complete response one token at a time?
Why can a response stop halfway through a sentence?
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The application can stream decoded output as tokens become available. Displayed chunks may combine several tokens or wait for complete characters before appearing.
Many implementations cache intermediate attention data from earlier positions to reduce repeated work. The exact caching strategy depends on the model and inference system.
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