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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Hacker News: Entropy of a Large Language Model output

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    Source URL: https://nikkin.dev/blog/llm-entropy.html Source: Hacker News Title: Entropy of a Large Language Model output Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text discusses the functionalities and implications of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT from an information theoretic perspective, particularly focusing on concepts such as token generation and entropy. This examination provides…