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sampling-token-probability-definition
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In its most basic form, sampling in language model generation means randomly picking the next token according to its conditional probability distribution.
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In its most basic form, sampling means randomly picking the next word w_t according to its conditional probability distribution p(w | w_{1:t-1}).
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