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AIF-C01 Practice Question: What does the temperature parameter control in a…

What does the temperature parameter control in a text generation model?

Answer choices

Why each option matters

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Correct answer & explanation

The degree of randomness in the generated output

Temperature scales the logits before applying softmax; higher temperature produces more random outputs, lower temperature makes the model more deterministic.

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

  • The number of candidate tokens considered at each step

    Why it's wrong here

    Top-k and top-p control candidate selection; temperature affects probability distribution scaling.

  • The degree of randomness in the generated output

    Why this is correct

    Temperature directly influences randomness: low values produce focused outputs, high values produce diverse outputs.

  • The similarity to the training data distribution

    Why it's wrong here

    Temperature does not directly measure similarity to training data.

  • The maximum number of tokens to generate

    Why it's wrong here

    Max tokens controls length, not randomness.

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