Empirical Study for Structured Output Control in LLMs for Software Engineering

arXiv·medium signal

Examines how well LLMs honor strict, organization-specific structural contracts when their output must plug into toolchains, APIs, and data pipelines — noting that a semantically correct answer in the wrong shape still breaks the pipeline. Empirically evaluates structured-output control techniques in SE settings. Practical for builders relying on schema-constrained generation to feed downstream automation.