Local AI Glossary
What is Top-k sampling?
Source: local-llm.net/glossary
A text generation strategy that restricts the candidate set to the k most probable next tokens at each step, then samples from that reduced set. Top-k=40 means only the 40 most likely tokens are considered. Prevents the model from selecting highly improbable tokens while maintaining variety.
How Top-k sampling fits in the local AI stack
Top-k sampling 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