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rytilltoday at 8:22 AM1 replyview on HN

LLMs learn a distribution during pre-training, not only an average.

Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution they learned.


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OtomotOtoday at 8:34 AM

> Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution they learned.

How do you derive that something is "below average" or "average" or "above average"?

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