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A Constraint-First Architecture for Generative AI: From Token Prediction to Hierarchical Locking

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A Constraint-First Architecture for Generative AI: From Token Prediction to Hierarchical Locking
Abstract Current large language models (LLMs) generate text through autoregressive token prediction—a fundamentally bottom-up process in which the model samples from a probability distribution over the next token, relying on …
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