ferrox_models/sampling.rs
1//! Token sampling from a decoder's output logits: llama.cpp's whole
2//! default sampler chain, on top of the greedy argmax ferrox previously
3//! always used unconditionally.
4//!
5//! The chain is `penalties, dry, top_n_sigma, top_k, typical_p, top_p,
6//! min_p, xtc, temperature` (`common/common.h:259-269`), which is
7//! [`crate::sampler_order::SamplerOrder`]'s default and llama.cpp's.
8//! The filters themselves are in [`crate::sampler_chain`], the DRY
9//! penalty in [`crate::dry`], the three history penalties in
10//! [`penalties`], the parameters in [`params`].
11//!
12//! `crate::speculative` verifies draft tokens against
13//! [`sampling_distribution`] -- the exact distribution [`Sampler`]
14//! draws from for a given `SamplingParams` -- so speculation is
15//! lossless with respect to whatever sampling configuration the caller
16//! asked for, rather than only at temperature 0.
17//!
18//! No external `rand` dependency: a small xorshift64* generator (the
19//! same algorithm `Decoder::new_random_small`'s test-only `Lcg` already
20//! uses in `decoder.rs`) is enough for sampling and keeps the
21//! dependency tree the same minimal, pure-Rust shape as the rest of
22//! this crate.
23
24mod greedy_equivalence;
25mod params;
26mod penalties;
27mod recommended;
28mod rng;
29
30pub use params::SamplingParams;
31pub use recommended::{RecommendedSampling, RequestedSampling};
32pub use rng::{LogitMask, Sampler};
33
34use crate::penalty_window::PenaltyWindow;
35use crate::sampler_chain::Candidates;
36use crate::sampler_order::ChainStep;
37use penalties::apply_history_penalties;
38
39/// A deterministic, uninteresting-on-purpose logit vector: no ties, a
40/// wide dynamic range, and a few negatives so the penalty's sign
41/// convention is exercised.
42///
43/// Shared with [`rng`]'s tests rather than written out twice, because
44/// two "the same logits" that were not the same logits is the smallest
45/// possible instance of this repo's dominant defect.
46#[cfg(test)]
47pub(crate) fn spread_logits(vocab: usize) -> Vec<f32> {
48 (0..vocab)
49 .map(|i| ((i as f32 * 12.9898).sin() * 43_758.547).fract() * 8.0 - 3.0)
50 .collect()
51}
52
53/// The token greedy decoding picks, given a chain that may or may not be
54/// able to move the argmax.
55///
56/// llama.cpp does NOT special-case `temp <= 0`: it runs the whole chain
57/// and lets `llama_sampler_temp_impl` (`src/llama-sampler.cpp:271-286`)
58/// set every logit but the maximum to `-inf`, so `dist` picks whatever
59/// the filters left. Two of those filters can therefore change greedy
60/// output, and both of them are new here: `xtc` removes the TOP
61/// candidates by construction, and `typ_p` selects outward from the
62/// distribution's entropy and may drop the most likely token.
63///
64/// ferrox keeps its `argmax` fast path, because building and sorting a
65/// 128k-entry candidate list per token to reach an answer that cannot
66/// differ would be a decode-speed regression on the most common
67/// configuration there is. [`SamplingParams::chain_keeps_the_argmax`]
68/// decides which path is exact.
69///
70/// That predicate and NOT [`SamplingParams::greedy_equals_raw_argmax`],
71/// which is the Metal `lm_head + argmax` fold's question: `scores` here
72/// has already been through [`apply_history_penalties`], and a device
73/// argmax over raw logits has not. Reading one predicate for both was
74/// GitHub issue #170 -- see [`greedy_equivalence`].
75fn greedy_choice(
76 scores: Vec<f32>,
77 params: &SamplingParams,
78 history: PenaltyWindow<'_>,
79 xtc_roll: Option<f32>,
80) -> usize {
81 if params.chain_keeps_the_argmax() {
82 return argmax(&scores);
83 }
84 argmax(&filtered_distribution(scores, params, history, xtc_roll))
85}
86
87/// The **exact** distribution [`Sampler::sample`] draws from for these
88/// logits, params and history: penalties applied over the
89/// `penalty_last_n` window, then llama.cpp's chain in
90/// `params.sampler_order`, renormalised to sum to 1.
91///
92/// That is llama.cpp's chain order -- **temperature last**, not first.
93/// This comment used to say "temperature divided in, top-k and top-p
94/// filtered", which described the pre-2026-09-01 pipeline and omitted
95/// min-p entirely.
96///
97/// This is what makes lossless speculative verification possible. The
98/// speculative-sampling rejection rule compares `p_target(x)` against
99/// the draft's `q(x)`, and "the target's probability" is meaningless
100/// unless it is the probability the *configured sampler* would actually
101/// have used -- a rule that compared against the raw softmax while the
102/// server sampled with `top_p = 0.9` would be lossless with respect to
103/// a model nobody is running.
104///
105/// Greedy (`temperature <= 0.0`) is a distribution too: the point mass
106/// on the token [`greedy_choice`] would pick. Returning it as one rather
107/// than as a special case is why the same verification code is correct
108/// at every temperature.
109///
110/// `xtc_roll` is [`Sampler::xtc_roll`]'s answer, and it is a REQUIRED
111/// argument rather than something this function draws or defaults,
112/// because XTC is stochastic and the caller owns the seeded stream. A
113/// caller that passes `None` while XTC is configured gets a chain with
114/// no XTC in it, which is why every caller in this workspace obtains it
115/// from `Sampler::xtc_roll` and not by writing `None`.
116pub fn sampling_distribution(
117 logits: &[f32],
118 params: &SamplingParams,
119 history: PenaltyWindow<'_>,
120 xtc_roll: Option<f32>,
121) -> Vec<f32> {
122 let mut scores = logits.to_vec();
123 apply_history_penalties(&mut scores, params, history);
124 if params.temperature <= 0.0 {
125 let vocab = scores.len();
126 let chosen = greedy_choice(scores, params, history, xtc_roll);
127 let mut probs = vec![0.0f32; vocab];
128 if let Some(p) = probs.get_mut(chosen) {
129 *p = 1.0;
130 }
131 return probs;
132 }
133 filtered_distribution(scores, params, history, xtc_roll)
134}
135
136/// Shared tail of [`Sampler::sample_with_mask`] and
137/// [`sampling_distribution`]: run the already-penalised `scores` through
138/// llama.cpp's sampler chain and return the resulting full-vocabulary
139/// distribution.
140///
141/// # Order, and why it is a specification
142///
143/// llama.cpp's default chain is `penalties, dry, top_n_sigma, top_k,
144/// typical_p, top_p, min_p, xtc, temperature` (`common/common.h:259-269`,
145/// consumed by `common/sampling.cpp:346-397`). The penalties already ran
146/// in [`apply_history_penalties`]; this function is the rest of it, in
147/// that order, and **temperature is last**.
148///
149/// ferrox used to divide by the temperature FIRST and filter afterwards.
150/// That is not a reordering of independent steps. Top-p selects the
151/// smallest set of candidates whose probabilities sum to `p`, and
152/// temperature changes those probabilities: a high temperature flattens
153/// the distribution so the nucleus grows, a low one sharpens it so the
154/// nucleus shrinks. Min-p compares each candidate's logit against
155/// `max + ln(p)`, and temperature scales exactly the gap being compared.
156/// Filtering before scaling and filtering after scaling therefore keep
157/// DIFFERENT candidate sets for the same flags.
158///
159/// Both callers go through here rather than each running their own
160/// chain, because a difference between the two is exactly the kind of
161/// silent non-losslessness speculative verification is supposed to rule
162/// out.
163///
164/// The filters themselves live in [`crate::sampler_chain`], which models
165/// the shrinking candidate list llama.cpp passes down the chain --
166/// including the renormalisation between steps that a keep-mask cannot
167/// express. See that module's header.
168///
169/// # The order is the caller's
170///
171/// `params.sampler_order` says which steps run and in what sequence,
172/// which is llama.cpp's `--samplers`. It DEFAULTS to the sequence
173/// written out above, so a caller that never sets it gets exactly the
174/// chain this function used to hardcode -- asserted bit-for-bit by
175/// [`tests::the_default_order_is_the_chain_ferrox_already_ran`].
176///
177/// The `match` is exhaustive over [`ChainStep`] with no `..`: a step
178/// added to the order's vocabulary stops this compiling until it has
179/// something to run. And because [`SamplerOrder`] can only be built out
180/// of steps ferrox implements, there is no arm here that means "asked
181/// for, silently not done".
182fn filtered_distribution(
183 scores: Vec<f32>,
184 params: &SamplingParams,
185 history: PenaltyWindow<'_>,
186 xtc_roll: Option<f32>,
187) -> Vec<f32> {
188 let vocab = scores.len();
189 let mut candidates = Candidates::new(&scores);
190 for &step in params.sampler_order.steps() {
191 match step {
192 // Already applied to `scores`, before the candidate list
193 // existed. `SamplerOrder` refuses a `penalties` that is not
194 // first precisely so that this is the same position the
195 // caller asked for; see `SamplerOrderError::PenaltiesNotFirst`.
196 ChainStep::Penalties => {}
197 ChainStep::Dry => candidates.dry(¶ms.dry.penalties(history)),
198 ChainStep::TopNSigma => candidates.top_n_sigma(params.top_n_sigma),
199 ChainStep::TopK => candidates.top_k(params.top_k),
200 ChainStep::TypP => candidates.typical_p(params.typical_p),
201 ChainStep::TopP => candidates.top_p(params.top_p),
202 ChainStep::MinP => candidates.min_p(params.min_p),
203 // `xtc_roll` is `None` exactly when
204 // `SamplingParams::xtc_can_fire` is false, which is the same
205 // predicate `Candidates::xtc` re-checks. See
206 // `Sampler::xtc_roll`.
207 ChainStep::Xtc => {
208 if let Some(chance) = xtc_roll {
209 candidates.xtc(params.xtc_probability, params.xtc_threshold, chance);
210 }
211 }
212 ChainStep::Temperature => candidates.temperature(params.temperature),
213 }
214 }
215 candidates.into_distribution(vocab)
216}
217
218fn argmax(logits: &[f32]) -> usize {
219 logits
220 .iter()
221 .enumerate()
222 .max_by(|a, b| a.1.partial_cmp(b.1).unwrap_or(std::cmp::Ordering::Equal))
223 .map(|(i, _)| i)
224 .unwrap_or(0)
225}
226
227#[cfg(test)]
228mod tests {
229 use super::*;
230 use crate::dry::{DryBreakers, DryParams};
231 use crate::sampler_order::SamplerOrder;
232
233 /// The chain `filtered_distribution` ran BEFORE llama.cpp's four
234 /// missing samplers were added, written out by hand.
235 ///
236 /// Deliberately not built from `SamplerOrder`: a reference that read
237 /// the order it is supposed to be pinning would agree with any
238 /// reordering, which is the shape of test that proves nothing.
239 fn the_chain_ferrox_used_to_hardcode(
240 logits: &[f32],
241 params: &SamplingParams,
242 history: PenaltyWindow<'_>,
243 ) -> Vec<f32> {
244 let mut scores = logits.to_vec();
245 apply_history_penalties(&mut scores, params, history);
246 let vocab = scores.len();
247 let mut candidates = Candidates::new(&scores);
248 candidates.top_k(params.top_k);
249 candidates.top_p(params.top_p);
250 candidates.min_p(params.min_p);
251 candidates.temperature(params.temperature);
252 candidates.into_distribution(vocab)
253 }
254
255 /// **A run that does not ask for an order samples exactly what it
256 /// always did.** Bit-for-bit, against the five-step chain written out
257 /// by hand rather than read back off `SamplerOrder`.
258 ///
259 /// This is now doing double duty. It is still the assertion that
260 /// makes `--samplers` safe to expose -- the order is not a
261 /// reordering of independent steps, so a default that drifted by one
262 /// position would change every generation on every model. And it is
263 /// the assertion that adding `dry`, `top_n_sigma`, `typ_p` and `xtc`
264 /// to the DEFAULT chain changed nothing: at their neutral values
265 /// (`dry_multiplier 0.0`, `top_n_sigma -1.0`, `typical_p 1.0`,
266 /// `xtc_probability 0.0`) all four are no-ops, so the nine-step
267 /// default must produce bit-identical probabilities to the five-step
268 /// chain it replaced.
269 ///
270 /// Swap any two entries of `sampler_order::DEFAULT_STEPS`, or make
271 /// any of the four new filters do something at its neutral value,
272 /// and this goes red.
273 #[test]
274 fn the_default_order_is_the_chain_ferrox_already_ran() {
275 let logits = spread_logits(64);
276 let prompt = [3usize, 9, 17, 9];
277 let generated = [9usize, 40, 3];
278 // Every filter switched on, and all three penalties, so there is
279 // something for a misplaced step to change.
280 // Every adjacent pair of the default chain has to be
281 // DISTINGUISHED by at least one row, or the assertion below
282 // passes for a chain in the wrong order. `top_k 5` with
283 // `top_p 0.9` separates top-k from top-p (top-p over the whole
284 // vocabulary keeps far more than five, so which runs first
285 // decides the answer); `min_p 0.2` separates top-p from min-p;
286 // any temperature away from 1.0 separates min-p from
287 // temperature.
288 for (temperature, top_k, top_p, min_p) in [
289 (0.8f32, 5usize, 0.9f32, 0.05f32),
290 (4.0, 3, 0.85, 0.2),
291 (0.2, 8, 0.95, 0.1),
292 (1.0, 40, 0.5, 0.02),
293 (0.8, 40, 0.95, 0.05),
294 ] {
295 let params = SamplingParams {
296 temperature,
297 top_k,
298 top_p,
299 min_p,
300 repetition_penalty: 1.1,
301 presence_penalty: 0.3,
302 frequency_penalty: 0.4,
303 ..SamplingParams::default()
304 };
305 let window = || PenaltyWindow::new(&prompt, &generated);
306 let expected = the_chain_ferrox_used_to_hardcode(&logits, ¶ms, window());
307 let actual = sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms, window(), None);
308 for (i, (a, e)) in actual.iter().zip(expected.iter()).enumerate() {
309 assert_eq!(
310 a.to_bits(),
311 e.to_bits(),
312 "token {i} at temp {temperature}, top_k {top_k}, top_p {top_p}, \
313 min_p {min_p}: the default order sampled {a} where the chain ferrox \
314 already ran gives {e}"
315 );
316 }
317 }
318 }
319
320 /// And the same at the token level: the ids a seeded `Sampler` draws
321 /// under `SamplingParams::default()` are the ids it draws when the
322 /// caller spells out the default chain, so the flag's default value
323 /// and the struct's default are one chain and not two.
324 #[test]
325 fn spelling_out_the_default_chain_draws_the_same_tokens() {
326 let logits = spread_logits(48);
327 let base = SamplingParams {
328 temperature: 0.8,
329 top_k: 40,
330 top_p: 0.95,
331 min_p: 0.05,
332 repetition_penalty: 1.1,
333 ..SamplingParams::default()
334 };
335 let spelled = SamplingParams {
336 sampler_order: "penalties;dry;top_n_sigma;top_k;typ_p;top_p;min_p;xtc;temperature"
337 .parse::<SamplerOrder>()
338 .expect("the default chain must parse"),
339 ..base.clone()
340 };
341 let draw = |params: &SamplingParams| {
342 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(0xFE0);
343 let mut generated: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
344 for _ in 0..64 {
345 let next = sampler.sample(&logits, params, PenaltyWindow::new(&[7], &generated));
346 generated.push(next);
347 }
348 generated
349 };
350 assert_eq!(draw(&base), draw(&spelled));
351 }
352
353 /// A run that never asks for XTC must not consume a draw for it, or
354 /// every seeded generation in the workspace shifts by one.
355 #[test]
356 fn running_the_temperature_first_keeps_a_different_candidate_set() {
357 let logits = vec![6.0f32, 4.0, 2.0, 0.0, -2.0, -4.0];
358 let params = |order: &str| SamplingParams {
359 temperature: 8.0,
360 top_p: 0.9,
361 top_k: 0,
362 min_p: 0.0,
363 sampler_order: order.parse().expect("chain"),
364 ..SamplingParams::default()
365 };
366 let support = |order: &str| -> Vec<bool> {
367 sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms(order), PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None)
368 .iter()
369 .map(|&p| p > 0.0)
370 .collect()
371 };
372
373 let default = support("penalties;top_k;top_p;min_p;temperature");
374 let temperature_first = support("penalties;temperature;top_k;top_p;min_p");
375 assert_ne!(
376 default, temperature_first,
377 "reordering the chain must change which candidates survive, \
378 or the flag is decorative"
379 );
380 assert!(
381 temperature_first.iter().filter(|&&k| k).count()
382 > default.iter().filter(|&&k| k).count(),
383 "temp 8.0 flattens the distribution, so a later top-p keeps more: \
384 default={default:?} temperature_first={temperature_first:?}"
385 );
386 }
387
388 /// A sampler left OUT of the chain does not run, even though its
389 /// knob is set -- llama.cpp reads an omitted sampler as "do not run
390 /// it", and a chain that ran it anyway would be honouring a request
391 /// nobody made.
392 ///
393 /// Checked for every filter that has a knob, not just min-p: the
394 /// four samplers added for llama.cpp parity each have their own arm
395 /// in `filtered_distribution`, and an arm that ignored the chain
396 /// would be invisible to a test that only exercised one of them.
397 #[test]
398 fn a_sampler_absent_from_the_chain_does_not_filter() {
399 let logits = vec![4.0f32, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0];
400 let survivors = |params: &SamplingParams, roll: Option<f32>| {
401 sampling_distribution(&logits, params, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), roll)
402 .iter()
403 .filter(|&&p| p > 0.0)
404 .count()
405 };
406 // (the knob, a chain WITHOUT its step, the roll to pass)
407 let cases: Vec<(SamplingParams, &str, Option<f32>)> = vec![
408 (
409 SamplingParams {
410 temperature: 1.0,
411 min_p: 0.2,
412 ..SamplingParams::default()
413 },
414 "penalties;top_k;top_p;temperature",
415 None,
416 ),
417 (
418 SamplingParams {
419 temperature: 1.0,
420 typical_p: 0.5,
421 ..SamplingParams::default()
422 },
423 "penalties;top_k;top_p;min_p;temperature",
424 None,
425 ),
426 (
427 SamplingParams {
428 temperature: 1.0,
429 top_n_sigma: 0.5,
430 ..SamplingParams::default()
431 },
432 "penalties;top_k;top_p;min_p;temperature",
433 None,
434 ),
435 (
436 SamplingParams {
437 temperature: 1.0,
438 xtc_probability: 1.0,
439 xtc_threshold: 0.05,
440 ..SamplingParams::default()
441 },
442 "penalties;top_k;top_p;min_p;temperature",
443 Some(0.0),
444 ),
445 ];
446 for (with, chain_without, roll) in cases {
447 let filtered = survivors(&with, roll);
448 assert!(
449 filtered < 4,
450 "the knob must bite when its step IS in the chain, \
451 or the second half proves nothing: {with:?}"
452 );
453 let without = SamplingParams {
454 sampler_order: chain_without.parse().expect("chain"),
455 ..with.clone()
456 };
457 assert_eq!(
458 survivors(&without, roll),
459 4,
460 "the knob is set but its step is not in `{chain_without}`, \
461 so nothing should truncate: {without:?}"
462 );
463 }
464 }
465
466 /// Leaving `penalties` out of the chain disables the penalties, on
467 /// the SAMPLED path and on the greedy one.
468 ///
469 /// The greedy half is the one that would have been missed: the
470 /// penalties are applied before the candidate list exists, so a
471 /// check placed beside the chain would never run at `temp <= 0`,
472 /// and `--samplers` without `penalties` would still have penalised.
473 #[test]
474 fn a_chain_without_penalties_does_not_penalise_on_either_path() {
475 // Token 0 leads token 1 by less than the 1.1 penalty.
476 let logits = vec![4.0f32, 3.9];
477 let history = || PenaltyWindow::new(&[0], &[]);
478 let greedy = SamplingParams {
479 temperature: 0.0,
480 repetition_penalty: 1.1,
481 ..SamplingParams::default()
482 };
483 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(1);
484 assert_eq!(
485 sampler.sample(&logits, &greedy, history()),
486 1,
487 "the default chain penalises the prompt token"
488 );
489
490 let unpenalised = SamplingParams {
491 sampler_order: "top_k;top_p;min_p;temperature".parse().expect("chain"),
492 ..greedy.clone()
493 };
494 assert!(!unpenalised.sampler_order.has_penalties());
495 assert_eq!(
496 sampler.sample(&logits, &unpenalised, history()),
497 0,
498 "`penalties` is not in the chain, so the argmax must stand"
499 );
500
501 // And on the sampled path, where the whole distribution is
502 // visible rather than one argmax.
503 let sampled = SamplingParams {
504 temperature: 1.0,
505 ..unpenalised
506 };
507 let with = SamplingParams {
508 sampler_order: SamplerOrder::default(),
509 ..sampled.clone()
510 };
511 assert_ne!(
512 sampling_distribution(&logits, &sampled, history(), None),
513 sampling_distribution(&logits, &with, history(), None)
514 );
515 }
516
517 /// A token that has only ever appeared in the PROMPT is penalised
518 /// on the very first generated position, and that changes which
519 /// token is sampled.
520 ///
521 /// This is the divergence issue #55 reported. llama.cpp seeds its
522 /// penalties sampler with every prompt token before drawing
523 /// anything (`tools/server/server-context.cpp:386-390`,
524 /// `tools/completion/completion.cpp:730-736`); ferrox's decode
525 /// loops handed the sampler the generated tokens alone, so the same
526 /// checkpoint, flags and prompt could produce different text at the
527 /// default `--repeat-penalty 1.1`.
528 ///
529 /// Asserted on the SAMPLED TOKEN rather than on the window's
530 /// contents: a test that only checked the slice could not tell the
531 /// window being applied to the wrong distribution from the window
532 /// being wrong. Drop `prompt` from `PenaltyWindow::recent` and this
533 /// goes red -- the second assertion returns 0.
534 #[test]
535 fn a_prompt_token_is_penalised_before_it_is_ever_generated() {
536 let params = SamplingParams {
537 // Greedy, so the assertion is on the chosen id and not on a
538 // draw. Everything below is arithmetic, not sampling.
539 temperature: 0.0,
540 repetition_penalty: 1.1,
541 ..SamplingParams::default()
542 };
543 // Token 0 leads token 1 by less than the 1.1 penalty: 4.0 / 1.1
544 // = 3.636, which is below 3.9.
545 let logits = vec![4.0f32, 3.9];
546 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(1);
547
548 assert_eq!(
549 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[])),
550 0,
551 "with nothing behind it the argmax wins"
552 );
553 assert_eq!(
554 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[0], &[])),
555 1,
556 "token 0 is in the prompt, so llama.cpp penalises it here"
557 );
558 // And a window that reaches back past the prompt is the same
559 // answer, which is what makes the two halves one sequence.
560 assert_eq!(
561 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[9, 0], &[8])),
562 1
563 );
564 }
565
566 /// `penalty_last_n` counts across the prompt/generated seam, so a
567 /// prompt token falls OUT of the window once enough tokens have
568 /// been generated after it -- and the sampled token moves back.
569 ///
570 /// A window that added the whole prompt to the last N generated
571 /// tokens would keep penalising token 0 forever and this would stay
572 /// at 1.
573 #[test]
574 fn a_prompt_token_leaves_the_window_once_the_generation_outgrows_it() {
575 let params = SamplingParams {
576 temperature: 0.0,
577 repetition_penalty: 1.1,
578 penalty_last_n: 2,
579 ..SamplingParams::default()
580 };
581 let logits = vec![4.0f32, 3.9];
582 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(1);
583
584 // Prompt token 0, one token generated: the window is [0, 5] and
585 // token 0 is still penalised.
586 assert_eq!(
587 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[0], &[5])),
588 1
589 );
590 // Two generated: the window is [5, 6] and token 0 is clear.
591 assert_eq!(
592 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[0], &[5, 6])),
593 0
594 );
595 }
596
597 /// Top-p cuts the UNSCALED distribution; the temperature reshapes
598 /// only the survivors.
599 ///
600 /// llama.cpp's default chain runs temperature LAST
601 /// (`common/common.h:259-269`); ferrox divided first and filtered
602 /// afterwards. Not an innocuous reordering: temperature changes the
603 /// probabilities top-p sums over, so a high temperature flattens the
604 /// distribution and grows the nucleus. The two orders keep different
605 /// candidate sets for identical flags.
606 #[test]
607 fn temperature_does_not_change_which_candidates_top_p_keeps() {
608 let logits = vec![3.0f32, 2.0, 1.0, 0.0];
609 let at = |temperature: f32| -> Vec<bool> {
610 let params = SamplingParams {
611 temperature,
612 top_p: 0.9,
613 top_k: 0,
614 ..SamplingParams::default()
615 };
616 sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None)
617 .iter()
618 .map(|&p| p > 0.0)
619 .collect()
620 };
621
622 let cold = at(0.5);
623 let hot = at(4.0);
624 assert_eq!(
625 cold, hot,
626 "the surviving set must not depend on the temperature: \
627 cold={cold:?} hot={hot:?}"
628 );
629 // And the cut must actually bite, or the equality above is
630 // satisfied by keeping everything.
631 assert!(
632 cold.iter().any(|&k| !k),
633 "top_p = 0.9 must drop at least one of these four candidates"
634 );
635 }
636
637 /// min-p truncates, and it truncates on llama.cpp's threshold.
638 ///
639 /// llama.cpp enables min-p **by default** at 0.05
640 /// (`common/common.h:231`), so until this existed ferrox could not
641 /// reproduce llama.cpp's own out-of-the-box output on any prompt --
642 /// a parity gap, not a missing feature.
643 ///
644 /// Logits `[4, 3, 2, 1]` at `min_p = 0.2`: the threshold is
645 /// `4 + ln(0.2) = 2.3905`, so exactly the candidates at 4 and 3
646 /// survive. Arithmetic done by hand from
647 /// `src/llama-sampler.cpp:1556`, not read back off the code.
648 #[test]
649 fn min_p_truncates_at_ln_p_below_the_top_logit() {
650 let logits = vec![4.0f32, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0];
651 let params = SamplingParams {
652 temperature: 1.0,
653 min_p: 0.2,
654 ..SamplingParams::default()
655 };
656 let probs = sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None);
657 assert!(probs[0] > 0.0 && probs[1] > 0.0);
658 assert_eq!(probs[2], 0.0, "2.0 is below 4 + ln(0.2) = 2.3905");
659 assert_eq!(probs[3], 0.0);
660 assert!((probs.iter().sum::<f32>() - 1.0).abs() < 1e-6);
661
662 // The two survivors are renormalised against each other:
663 // e^4 / (e^4 + e^3) = 0.7311.
664 assert!((probs[0] - 0.731_059).abs() < 1e-5, "got {}", probs[0]);
665
666 // 0.0 disables it, which is ferrox's struct default -- adding
667 // min-p must not change any existing caller's distribution.
668 let off = SamplingParams {
669 min_p: 0.0,
670 ..params.clone()
671 };
672 let unfiltered = sampling_distribution(&logits, &off, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None);
673 assert!(unfiltered.iter().all(|&p| p > 0.0));
674 }
675
676 /// min-p runs BEFORE the temperature, so the set it keeps does not
677 /// depend on `--temp`.
678 ///
679 /// This is the same trap as E4 and it bites harder here. min-p's
680 /// test is `logit_i >= logit_max + ln(p)`, and temperature divides
681 /// **both** logits, so it scales the very gap being compared against
682 /// a fixed `ln(p)`. On these logits at `min_p = 0.2`, running min-p
683 /// after a temperature of 0.5 would keep one candidate and after 2.0
684 /// would keep all four; llama.cpp keeps two at every temperature
685 /// (`common/common.h:259-269` puts `MIN_P` before `TEMPERATURE`).
686 ///
687 /// Move `candidates.min_p(..)` after `candidates.temperature(..)` in
688 /// `filtered_distribution` and this goes red.
689 #[test]
690 fn temperature_does_not_change_which_candidates_min_p_keeps() {
691 let logits = vec![3.0f32, 2.0, 1.0, 0.0];
692 let survivors = |temperature: f32| -> Vec<bool> {
693 let params = SamplingParams {
694 temperature,
695 min_p: 0.2,
696 ..SamplingParams::default()
697 };
698 sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None)
699 .iter()
700 .map(|&p| p > 0.0)
701 .collect()
702 };
703
704 let cold = survivors(0.5);
705 let warm = survivors(1.0);
706 let hot = survivors(2.0);
707 assert_eq!(cold, warm, "cold={cold:?} warm={warm:?}");
708 assert_eq!(warm, hot, "warm={warm:?} hot={hot:?}");
709 // 3 + ln(0.2) = 1.3905, so exactly the 3.0 and 2.0 candidates.
710 assert_eq!(warm, vec![true, true, false, false]);
711 }
712
713 /// min-p sits AFTER top-p in the chain, and both may bite on the
714 /// same call.
715 ///
716 /// `top_p = 0.95` on this distribution keeps three candidates
717 /// (0.6337 + 0.2331 + 0.0857 = 0.9525); min-p at 0.2 then drops the
718 /// third, whose probability is 0.135 of the top one. Getting only
719 /// one of the two filters gives a different answer either way, so
720 /// this fails if either is dropped or if min-p is skipped when top-p
721 /// already truncated.
722 #[test]
723 fn top_p_and_min_p_both_apply() {
724 let logits = vec![3.0f32, 2.0, 1.0, 0.0];
725 let params = SamplingParams {
726 temperature: 1.0,
727 top_p: 0.95,
728 min_p: 0.2,
729 ..SamplingParams::default()
730 };
731 let probs = sampling_distribution(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None);
732 assert_eq!(
733 probs.iter().map(|&p| p > 0.0).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
734 vec![true, true, false, false]
735 );
736
737 // top-p alone keeps three; min-p alone also keeps two here, so
738 // pin the top-p-only case to prove the two filters are distinct
739 // and that this test is not satisfied by min-p doing all the
740 // work.
741 let top_p_only = SamplingParams {
742 min_p: 0.0,
743 ..params.clone()
744 };
745 assert_eq!(
746 sampling_distribution(&logits, &top_p_only, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]), None)
747 .iter()
748 .filter(|&&p| p > 0.0)
749 .count(),
750 3
751 );
752 }
753
754 /// DRY reaches the sampled token through the chain, not just the
755 /// penalty table.
756 ///
757 /// Window `0 1 2 0 1` at `allowed_length 2`: emitting `2` would make
758 /// it a three-token repetition, so DRY subtracts
759 /// `multiplier * base^0 = 6.0` from token 2's logit of 5.0 -- more
760 /// than enough to move the greedy argmax off it. That is the whole
761 /// claim: a sampler wired into `filtered_distribution` but not
762 /// reached from the greedy path would leave this at 2.
763 #[test]
764 fn dry_moves_the_chosen_token_on_both_the_greedy_and_the_sampled_path() {
765 let logits = vec![0.0f32, 0.0, 5.0, 0.0];
766 let history = || PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[0, 1, 2, 0, 1]);
767 let dry = DryParams::new(6.0, 1.1, 2, -1, 1024, DryBreakers::none());
768 let greedy = SamplingParams {
769 temperature: 0.0,
770 dry: dry.clone(),
771 ..SamplingParams::default()
772 };
773 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(5);
774 assert_eq!(
775 sampler.sample(&logits, &SamplingParams::default(), history()),
776 2,
777 "without DRY token 2 is the argmax"
778 );
779 assert_ne!(
780 sampler.sample(&logits, &greedy, history()),
781 2,
782 "DRY subtracts 4.0 from token 2's logit of 5.0, so it loses"
783 );
784
785 // Same on the sampled path, read off the distribution.
786 let sampled = SamplingParams {
787 temperature: 1.0,
788 ..greedy.clone()
789 };
790 let with = sampling_distribution(&logits, &sampled, history(), None);
791 let without = sampling_distribution(
792 &logits,
793 &SamplingParams {
794 dry: DryParams::off(),
795 ..sampled
796 },
797 history(),
798 None,
799 );
800 assert!(with[2] < without[2], "with={with:?} without={without:?}");
801 }
802
803 /// XTC removes the TOP candidates, so it can change greedy output --
804 /// and ferrox's greedy fast path knows that.
805 ///
806 /// `chain_keeps_the_argmax` is the predicate that decides whether
807 /// the `argmax` shortcut is exact. Make it return `true`
808 /// unconditionally and this goes red: the shortcut would return
809 /// token 0 while llama.cpp's chain, which runs XTC before the
810 /// temperature at every temperature, returns something else.
811 #[test]
812 fn xtc_changes_the_greedy_choice_because_it_removes_the_top() {
813 let logits = vec![3.0f32, 2.9, -10.0];
814 let params = SamplingParams {
815 temperature: 0.0,
816 // Always fires, and both leading candidates clear the
817 // threshold, so the more likely of the two is removed.
818 xtc_probability: 1.0,
819 xtc_threshold: 0.05,
820 ..SamplingParams::default()
821 };
822 assert!(!params.chain_keeps_the_argmax());
823 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(11);
824 assert_eq!(
825 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[])),
826 1,
827 "XTC drops token 0, so the greedy answer is token 1"
828 );
829 // Without XTC the argmax stands, which is what makes the
830 // assertion above about XTC and not about the logits.
831 assert_eq!(
832 sampler.sample(
833 &logits,
834 &SamplingParams::default(),
835 PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[])
836 ),
837 0
838 );
839 }
840
841 /// The same for typical-p: it selects outward from the entropy and
842 /// can drop the most likely token, so the greedy shortcut is not
843 /// exact when it is live.
844 #[test]
845 fn typical_p_can_drop_the_argmax_so_greedy_must_run_the_chain() {
846 // One near-certain token and three equal small ones. The
847 // entropy is dominated by the small tokens, so the near-certain
848 // one is the ATYPICAL member and typical-p at 0.5 keeps it
849 // alone here -- while at 0.5 on a flatter distribution it drops
850 // the leader. The property under test is the predicate.
851 let params = SamplingParams {
852 temperature: 0.0,
853 typical_p: 0.5,
854 ..SamplingParams::default()
855 };
856 assert!(!params.chain_keeps_the_argmax());
857 assert!(SamplingParams {
858 typical_p: 1.0,
859 ..params.clone()
860 }
861 .chain_keeps_the_argmax());
862
863 // logits ln(0.4), ln(0.2) x3: llama.cpp keeps the three 0.2
864 // candidates and drops the 0.4 leader (`tests/test-sampling.cpp:346`),
865 // so the greedy answer must not be token 0.
866 let logits: Vec<f32> = [0.4f32, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2].iter().map(|p| p.ln()).collect();
867 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(3);
868 assert_ne!(
869 sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[])),
870 0,
871 "typical-p drops the most likely token here"
872 );
873 }
874
875 #[test]
876 fn greedy_is_published_as_a_point_mass_not_a_special_case() {
877 let logits = vec![0.1, 0.9, 0.3, -0.2];
878 let probs = sampling_distribution(
879 &logits,
880 &SamplingParams::default(),
881 PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[]),
882 None,
883 );
884 assert_eq!(probs, vec![0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0]);
885 // Penalties still apply at temperature 0, so the point mass
886 // moves with them.
887 let penalized = sampling_distribution(
888 &logits,
889 &SamplingParams {
890 repetition_penalty: 100.0,
891 ..SamplingParams::default()
892 },
893 PenaltyWindow::new(&[], &[1]),
894 None,
895 );
896 assert_eq!(penalized[1], 0.0);
897 assert_eq!(penalized.iter().sum::<f32>(), 1.0);
898 }
899}