In an accelerated text generation process, a sequence has been extended. The confirmed prefix is 'The cat sat on the', and two subsequent tokens, 'mat and', have just been accepted. The system now needs to generate the very next token. The underlying evaluation model provides the following probabilities for potential next tokens, given the full context 'The cat sat on the mat and':

P('looked') = 0.55 P('slept') = 0.25 P('waited') = 0.15 P('the') = 0.05

According to the principle of selecting t