Summary of Is Temperature the Creativity Parameter Of Large Language Models?, by Max Peeperkorn and Tom Kouwenhoven and Dan Brown and Anna Jordanous
Is Temperature the Creativity Parameter of Large Language Models?
by Max Peeperkorn, Tom Kouwenhoven, Dan Brown, Anna Jordanous
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A study investigated whether the temperature parameter of large language models (LLMs) is indeed the “creativity parameter” by analyzing LLM outputs for different temperature values in a narrative generation task. The researchers applied four conditions for creativity – novelty, typicality, cohesion, and coherence – to evaluate the LLM’s performance. They found that temperature has a weak correlation with novelty and incoherence, but no relationship with cohesion or typicality. Despite this, the study suggests that increasing temperatures leads to slightly more novel outputs. The authors propose alternative methods for controlled creativity rather than relying on chance via temperature changes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models can create many different things, from great stories to weird copies of existing work. People often think that a special setting called “temperature” helps them be creative. But is it really true? A team looked at this by testing how well a model does when given different temperatures while writing a story. They used four important rules for creativity: making new things, being normal, sticking together, and making sense. The results showed that temperature doesn’t strongly affect these rules, except maybe making something new. The researchers think that we might be able to make the model create more interesting things if we change how we use it, rather than just relying on chance. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Temperature
