Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction

Junlang Qian; Zixiao Zhu; Hanzhang Zhou; Zijian Feng (冯子健); Zepeng Zhai; Kezhi Mao

doi:10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.363

Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction

Junlang Qian, Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Zijian Feng, Zepeng Zhai, Kezhi Mao

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[Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.363/) (Qian et al., NAACL 2025)

Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction (Qian et al., NAACL 2025)

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Junlang Qian, Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Zijian Feng, Zepeng Zhai, and Kezhi Mao. 2025. Beyond the Next Token: Towards Prompt-Robust Zero-Shot Classification via Efficient Multi-Token Prediction. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7093–7115, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.