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argTopK Function
The argTopK function is an operator that identifies the K items with the highest values from a given set. In the context of language models, it is applied to the probability distribution over the entire vocabulary to rank all possible next tokens and return the set of the K most probable candidates.
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Ch.5 Inference - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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argTopK Function
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Mathematical Definition of Top-K Token Selection
Formal Derivation of the Top-k Selection Pool
A language model is generating text and needs to decide on the next token. It has calculated the following probabilities for a small set of possible tokens:
{'over': 0.12, 'the': 0.35, 'a': 0.28, 'under': 0.05, 'quick': 0.20}. If an operator is applied to this set to identify theK=3tokens with the highest probability values, which set of tokens will be returned?Analyzing the Impact of the 'K' Parameter on Token Selection
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Kitems with the highest values with the parameterKset to 1 will produce a different set of candidate tokens than simply selecting the single token with the highest probability.