Part 6
Completed
Sampling Dashboard
Built an interactive dashboard visualizing decoding strategies: greedy, beam search, top-k, top-p (nucleus), temperature scaling, and typical sampling. Real-time visualization of probability distributions, token selections, and generation trajectories.
What I Built
Built an interactive dashboard visualizing decoding strategies: greedy, beam search, top-k, top-p (nucleus), temperature scaling, and typical sampling. Real-time visualization of probability distributions, token selections, and generation trajectories.
Key Concepts
Greedy DecodingBeam SearchTop-K SamplingNucleus SamplingTemperature ScalingTypical Sampling
Architecture
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Sampling Engine2
Probability Visualizer3
Trajectory Tracker4
Interactive DashboardResults
Dashboard reveals how temperature affects diversity-quality tradeoff. Top-p=0.9 provides optimal balance across multiple evaluation metrics.
Key Learnings
- Decoding is as much art as science—no strategy is universally optimal
- Temperature controls entropy but not in a linear way
- Beam search often hurts diversity more than it helps quality
Challenges
- Visualizing high-dimensional probability distributions
- Creating fair comparison metrics for diverse strategies
- Implementing efficient batched sampling