Local AI Glossary
What is Greedy decoding?
Source: local-llm.net/glossary
A text generation strategy that always selects the most probable next token at each step. Fast and deterministic but often produces repetitive, unimaginative text. Temperature and top-p sampling are preferred for more natural and varied outputs.
How Greedy decoding fits in the local AI stack
Greedy decoding is part of the broader local AI ecosystem. See the related guides, comparisons, and tools below to see how it applies in practice.
See also
- Full Local AI Glossary
- All learn topics
- What is Local AI?
- Quantization explained
- Hardware requirements
- How to choose a local LLM