Temperature

What Temperature does not show

Where Temperature comes up on this site

• Do AI agents stop before acting on a lookalike? We tested 4One call per case and arm, the same prompt for every model, temperature 0 where the host allows it.

Terms this definition uses

token · ARIA · Model version

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Questions about Temperature

What is Temperature?

A decoding control that changes how strongly generation favors the highest-probability next tokens.

What does Temperature not show or guarantee?

Lower values reduce variation but do not make an answer deterministic across infrastructure or model versions.

Which area of the glossary does Temperature belong to?

Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.

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