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Schema-guided decoding narrows the gap on structured extraction

A Brightwater Institute paper reports that constraining small models to a target schema while decoding brings their extraction accuracy close to models ten times larger on three test sets.

Heat at demo clock
21.6
Independent sources
3
Reports
3
First seen
Last report
In briefings
Thu 12 Mar

Timeline and provenance

Every report on this event, oldest first. All times UTC.

  1. First report

    Schema-guided decoding narrows the gap on structured extraction

    Brightwater Institute Papers Research, tier 1

    A Brightwater Institute paper reports that constraining small models to a target schema while decoding brings their extraction accuracy close to models ten times larger on three test sets.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  2. Coverage

    Notable this week: schema-guided decoding for extraction

    Paper Digest Newsletter Community, tier 3

    The newsletter highlights the Brightwater paper and notes that its code has not been released yet.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  3. Coverage

    Why small models are getting better at filling in forms

    The Latent Weekly Press, tier 2

    An explainer on schema-guided decoding and what the Brightwater results do and do not show.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

How the heat adds up

10 × 0.5age / 24 h per independent source, newest report only, within 48 h.

At the demo clock, 12 Mar, 09:00 UTC.
SourceReportAgeWeightPointsWhy
Brightwater Institute Papers11 Mar, 09:0024 h0.5005.00counted
Paper Digest Newsletter11 Mar, 20:0013 h0.6876.87counted
The Latent Weekly12 Mar, 08:001 h0.9729.72counted
Total21.63 sources counted

6 hours earlier, at 12 Mar, 03:00 UTC, the heat was 14.1, so the trend is rising (+7.5). How trends are labelled

Why these reports are one event

Joined when similarity reaches 0.35: 0.6 × shared entities + 0.4 × shared wording, and at least one shared entity.

ReportDecisionEvidence
Brightwater Institute Papers, 11 Mar, 09:00newStarted this event: no open event scored above the threshold.
Paper Digest Newsletter, 11 Mar, 20:00joinedScore 0.675 against the Brightwater Institute Papers report: entities 1.00, wording 0.19. Shared: Brightwater Institute, Schema-guided decoding.
The Latent Weekly, 12 Mar, 08:00joinedScore 0.677 against the Brightwater Institute Papers report: entities 1.00, wording 0.19. Shared: Brightwater Institute, Schema-guided decoding.

Named in this event

Brightwater Institute, Schema-guided decoding