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Top-p (Nucleus Sampling)

Sampling method that only considers tokens within the smallest set whose cumulative probability exceeds p (e.g. 0.9). Filters out unlikely tokens while preserving diversity. Often combined with temperature.

Where this is taught

• Sampling Methods — Phase 2: Probability & Statistics
• Pre-Training a Mini GPT (124M Parameters) — Phase 3: LLM Architecture

Related terms

Temperature

More in LLM

Hallucination · Temperature · Token · Context Window · In-Context Learning · System Prompt · Function Calling

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