Unverified
2026
Uniform PEP selective decoding
Replace raw neural scores with randomized pairwise-error probabilities relative to a reference candidate distribution. Use a fixed PEP threshold to accept, abstain, or form a variable-size candidate list; exact uniformity under the reference law makes the threshold interpretable independently of the model's score scale and robust to ties.
Paper: One-Shot Information Theory via the Pairwise Error Probability: Lossy, Joint Source-Channel, Erasure, and Multiuser Coding
arXiv:2608.15169