Confident but Wrong: A Constrained Decoding Diagnostic for Low-Resource Automatic Post-Editing

arXiv:2609.29680 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 33× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Machine Translation — 23× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 16× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Automatic Post-Editing — 14× in this paper
• RAG — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Failure Modes — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Edit-Level Conditioning — 3× in this paper
• Tokenization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Computational overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 2× in this paper
• Hidden State Anchoring — 2× in this paper
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaffolding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structured Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Translation Edit Rate — 2× in this paper
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Task Decomposition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know
• No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation

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