XTC: Head-Aware Sampling by Excluding Top Choices

Abstract

XTC changes the high-probability part of the next-token distribution. When multiple tokens pass a plausibility threshold, it can remove the dominant choices before sampling, providing a way to control diversity alongside temperature and repetition penalties.

Publication
arXiv preprint
Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
AI Researcher

AI researcher at Meta MSL with a background in information theory and computational neuroscience, working on world models, memory, and compression. Former Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at NYU, collaborating on research across academia and industry.

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