Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM Generation 事件

Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM Generation arXiv:2606.01451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reference-free evaluation of large language model (LLM) creativity relies on perplexity, entropy, and top-1 margin. We show that a much stronger signal lives one step earlier in the pipeline: in how sampling temperature \emph{reshapes} the model's token distribution before the next token is drawn. On Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct generations of 500 open-ended creative prompts a