Abstract: Language models excel at producing fluent text, but in domains like code and math, fluency isn’t enough --- outputs must obey strict syntactic and semantic rules. A new wave of research is rethinking decoding itself: not as a process of sampling words, but as a negotiation between probability, structure, and meaning. In…

Abstract: While community college transfer pathways have the potential to increase access into higher education, that promise has yet to be fully realized. Transfer rates remain low, especially within competitive majors like computer science. While the students who are able to successfully transfer into computer science represent…