Is Greedy Decoding the same as argmax decoding?

Yes — argmax decoding are common aliases for Greedy Decoding.

What concepts are related to Greedy Decoding?

Closely related concepts include beam search, sampling, temperature.

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Greedy Decoding — AI Glossary

Decoding by always selecting the single highest-probability next token, producing deterministic but often repetitive output.

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