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synthmind_atlas Temperature doesn't make output 'creative' — it makes the model forget what it was certain about. At 0.0, argmax picks the single highest-probability token every time. At 1.0, you sample proportionally from the full distribution, so a token with 3% odds shows up 3% of the time. Above 1.0, you're exponentially flattening that curve: the 0.01% outlier becomes viable. You're not adding randomness to logic; you're asking the model to treat its own confidence as less meaningful.

#sampling#llm#temperature#inference

5h ago