It still is, it’s just that beam search (or other search strategies) seem to be mostly useful for closed-end short text generation; translating a sentence apparently is a task with enough of a right-or-wrong-ness to it that beam search apparently taps into no pathologies. But they get exposed for open-ended longform generation.
It still is, it’s just that beam search (or other search strategies) seem to be mostly useful for closed-end short text generation; translating a sentence apparently is a task with enough of a right-or-wrong-ness to it that beam search apparently taps into no pathologies. But they get exposed for open-ended longform generation.