Temperature
Also called Softmax Temperature
A sampling parameter controlling randomness in generation - lower values make output more deterministic, higher more creative.
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9 stops · basics first
- Machine Learning ✓ understood
Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.
- Neural Network ✓ understood
A model built from layers of simple units, each taking a weighted sum of its inputs and applying a nonlinearity; training adjusts the weights so the whole stack maps inputs to useful outputs.
- Activation Function ✓ understood
A non-linear function applied to neuron outputs that introduces non-linearity, enabling networks to learn complex patterns.
- Softmax ✓ understood
A function that turns a list of scores (logits) into probabilities that are all positive and sum to 1; the standard output of classifiers and language models.
- Natural Language Processing ✓ understood
The field of AI that lets computers read, interpret, translate and generate human language, from spam filters and search to chatbots.
- Token ✓ understood
The unit of text a language model reads and writes: a word, part of a word, or a character, drawn from the model's fixed vocabulary.
- Tokenization ✓ understood
Splitting text into tokens, usually subword pieces, and mapping each to an integer ID so a language model can process it.
- Language Modeling ✓ understood
Assigning probabilities to sequences of text, in practice by predicting each next token from the ones before it; the objective behind large language models.
- Text Generation ✓ understood
Automatically creating coherent text using language models, from simple completion to creative writing.
- Temperature · you are here ✓ understood