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Temperature
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Temperature
” mean?
Definition
A sampling setting controlling randomness in generated outputs.
Related terms
Top-k Sampling
A decoding strategy that samples only from the k most likely next tokens.
Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling
A decoding strategy that samples from the smallest token set whose probabilities sum to p.
Trust Calibration
Aligning user confidence in AI outputs with the system's actual reliability in each task.
Algorithmic Bias
Systematic unfairness in model outputs caused by skewed data, assumptions, or modeling choices.
Data Labeling
The process of assigning tags or target outputs to raw data for supervised learning.
Ground Truth
Trusted reference labels used to train or evaluate model outputs.
Learn more in our free guides
Temperature and Sampling
See also
System Prompt
Token
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
Supervised Learning
Tool Use
Sparse Model
Small Language Model (SLM)
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