This work delved into the realm of automatic text generation, exploring a
variety of techniques ranging from traditional deterministic approaches to more
modern stochastic methods. Through analysis of greedy search, beam search,
top-k sampling, top-p sampling, contrastive searching, and locally typical
searching, this work has provided valuable insights into the strengths,
weaknesses, and potential applications of each method. Each text-generating
method is evaluated using several standard metrics and a comparative study has
been made on the performance of the approaches. Finally, some future directions
of research in the field of automatic text generation are also identified.Comment: This report pertains to the Capstone Project done by Group 5 of the
Fall batch of 2023 students at Praxis Tech School, Kolkata, India. The
reports consists of 57 pages and it includes 17 figures and 8 tables. This is
the preprint which will be submitted to IEEE CONIT 2024 for revie