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Sampling

Stochastic Sampling

Definition

Sampling is a text generation strategy that draws the next token from the model's probability distribution rather than always selecting the highest-probability token. Temperature, top-p (nucleus), and top-k are controls that shape the sampling distribution.

Sampling produces more diverse, creative outputs than greedy decoding and is the default generation mode for most chatbot and creative AI applications.


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