How LLMs Choose Their Words: A Practical Walk-Through of Logits, Softmax and Sampling - MachineLearningMastery.com

Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce varied, creative, and sometimes surprising outputs even when given the same prompt. This randomness is not a bug but a core feature of how the model samples its next token from a probability distribution. In this article, we break down the key sampling strategies and demonstrate how parameters such […]