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Top-p (nucleus sampling) filters out extremely low-probability outputs by truncating the long tail of the probability distribution.
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VerifiedNucleus sampling (top-p) dynamically truncates the minimum set of tokens whose cumulative probability reaches p and samples from that set.79% similarUnverifiedWhen Top-P is set to 0.5, selection is made only from the top 50% probability words; when set to 1, all words have a chance of being selected.72% similarUnverifiedThe verification process in traditional speculative decoding accepts draft-proposed tokens with probability min(1, p(x)/q(x)), and upon rejection resamples from the corrected distribution norm(max(0, p(x)-q(x))), which can be proven to produce a token distribution identical to directly sampling from the target model (lossless).70% similarUnverifiedA higher temperature value makes the model's output probability distribution smoother and increases randomness; Top-p sampling draws only from the smallest set of tokens whose cumulative probability reaches the threshold.69% similarUnverifiedIn the Best-of-N strategy, if the probability of success in a single sample is p, then the probability of at least one success in N independent samples is 1-(1-p)^N, which approaches 1 as N increases.68% similar
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