Why should I avoid decoding every token independently?
Some tokens represent incomplete byte sequences or depend on surrounding pieces for spacing. Decoding the sequence together helps reconstruct characters and boundaries correctly.
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No. Generation selects a sequence of token IDs using the model and decoding strategy. Tokenizer decoding converts that selected sequence into a readable string.
Only if the tokenizer preserved that information during encoding and the decoder retains it. A tokenizer that lowercases input cannot automatically recover the original capitalization.
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