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