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  1. Reference
  2. Greedy decoding

Glossary

Greedy decoding

Always picking the single most likely token. It is what temperature 0 amounts to, and it still does not guarantee identical outputs run to run.

Where it is explained

  • Sampling parameters and the model landscapeLLM foundations

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • API-only model
  • Batch invariance
  • Context window
  • Open-weight model
  • Sampling
  • Temperature
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