AI Lesson & Submodule
Top-k vs Top-p Sampling
Compare cumulative distribution thresholds against fixed count cuts.
Why This Matters
Dynamic threshold filtering prevents low-probability vocabulary choices from corrupting responses.
What You Will Learn
- •Define Top-k limits
- •Explain Top-p cumulative nucleus
- •Combine K and P limits
Concepts Covered
Top-k sortingTop-p cumulative sortingVocabulary pruning
Mapped Foundation Project: Hyperparameter Playground
Interactive settings dashboard to inspect how Temperature, Top-p, and penalties alter Softmax probability distributions.
Architecture Preview
Logs visualizer showing vocabulary probability bars changing dynamically as sliders scale parameters.
Raw Logits ArrayTemperature Scale FunctionSoftmax Probability Converter
Tech Stack Planned
ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS
Technical Interview Value
- ?Explain how nucleus sampling isolates the contextually relevant vocabulary subset