XTC Sampling Makes Creative Outputs More Diverse Without Hurting Fluency

ziv_ravid · x · 2026-09-26

Experiments across model families show XTC makes creative outputs more diverse and less repetitive, with human raters preferring it for creativity at no cost to fluency.

At equal diversity it hurts instruction following far less than temperature, and it stacks with temperature and min-p.

Related event: XTC sampling paper accepted to NeurIPS, already available in llama.cpp and other local engines(5 posts)→

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