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

Dec 17, 2025 - 21:00
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How LLMs Choose Their Words: A Practical Walk-Through of Logits, Softmax and Sampling
This article is divided into four parts; they are: • How Logits Become Probabilities • Temperature • Top- k Sampling • Top- p Sampling When you ask an LLM a question, it outputs a vector of logits.

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