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Say What You Mean: A Response to ‘Let Me Speak Freely’

5/5/2025 • blog.dottxt.co
Say What You Mean: A Response to ‘Let Me Speak Freely’

A recent paper from the research team at Appier, Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models, made some very serious accusations about the quality of LLM evaluation results when performing structured generation. Their (Tam, et al.) ultimate conclusion was:

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C4AIL Commentary

A paper critically inspecting previous claims that structured generation in LLMs causes degradation of responses, finding no such challenge but a lot of challenges with the original paper.