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Perplexity
AI Glossary Term
What is Perplexity?
Definition
A language-model metric measuring how surprised the model is by true next tokens.
Related terms
Pass@k
A code-evaluation metric measuring the chance that at least one of k generated samples passes the tests.
Context Window
The maximum amount of input tokens a language model can process at once.
Top-k Sampling
A decoding strategy that samples only from the k most likely next tokens.
Confidence Interval
A statistical range that likely contains the true value of a measured model metric.
Frequency Penalty
A decoding setting that reduces the probability of tokens proportionally to how often they've appeared so far.
Presence Penalty
A decoding setting that reduces the probability of tokens that have appeared at all, encouraging new topics.
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