structured

Definition

Constrained to a machine-readable shape — JSON, a table, a tree — rather than free-form prose. Structured decoding enforces that shape during generation, which is what makes a model's output safe to feed into downstream code. In the older phrase "structured prediction", the term instead names a problem setting where the output itself is a sequence or a graph rather than a single label.

Explainers using this term

• Mamba and State Space Models — Handling Sequences Without AttentionEfficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces