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drdecayesterday at 8:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Hm, why T=-0.0001 instead of T=-1 ?

Also, I wonder, if you sampled a lot of text at temperature -1, and then trained a new model on that text, and then sampled the resulting model at T=-1 , would you get anything meaningful?


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pelarioyesterday at 8:50 PM

From the article:

"As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but this time, the least likely tokens will be output."

I understand this as, a negative number far from zero is also quite random (just with a distribution that will produce unlikely tokens).

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