This report synthesises findings from 9 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: Does the combination of globally-normalised decoding and iterative refinement improve the factual consistency of generated responses on TruthfulQA, as evaluated by human annotations and automated. 9 claims were extracted from source literature; 9 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 9.2/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: Does the combination of globally-normalised decoding and iterative refinement improve the factual consistency of generated responses on TruthfulQA, as evaluated by human annotations and automated metrics like F1 and BLEU scores?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 9.2/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.