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The Constraint Tax: Measuring Validity-Correctness Tradeoffs in Structured Outputs for Small Language Models

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Main Author:	Ray, Jaideep
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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