The temperature parameter in large language models scales the logit distribution before sampling; higher values flatten the distribution and increase hallucination risk, while lower values sharpen the distribution toward the most probable tokens.

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• Person: M. Brenndoerfer Organization: mbrenndoerfer.com
  Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts

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• Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts mbrenndoerfer.com M. Brenndoerfer · mbrenndoerfer.com via serper

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• Large Language Models concept
• hallucination concept