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Implement top-k and top-p (nucleus) sampling from a model's next-token logits.

Every chat model's 'temperature' and 'top_p' knobs are a few lines of logit surgery. Implementing them shows you understand decoding, not just call it. Here is the from-scratch version.

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Every chat model's 'temperature' and 'top_p' knobs are a few lines of logit surgery. Implementing them shows you understand decoding, not just call it. Here is the from-scratch version.

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