What is temperature?
I see the word “temperature” being used at various places like:inModels — transformers 4.12.4 documentationtemperature(float, optional, defaults to 1.0) – The value used to module the next token probabilities.temperature scaling for calibrationtemperature of distillationcan anyone please explain what does it mean, or point me to a source with explanation?
2021-11-17T09:40:29Z
This is very well explained inthis Stackoverflow answer.You can also check out ourblog poston generating text with Transformers, that also includes a description of the temperature.
2021-11-17T11:15:48Z
Thanks a lot@nielsr