Glossary · AI
What is
Temperature?
A parameter (0-2) controlling how random or deterministic an LLM's output is.
By Anish· Founder · Vedwix
·Definition
Temperature controls the randomness of LLM sampling. At 0 the model picks the highest-probability token every step (deterministic). At 1 it samples normally. Above 1 it gets increasingly random and creative — useful for ideation, dangerous for production. Most production endpoints set temperature to 0 or near-zero.
Example
A SQL generator runs at temperature 0 — you want the same query every time. A brainstorming assistant runs at 0.7 — you want variety.
How Vedwix uses Temperature in client work
Default is 0 for production. Anything above 0.5 needs a clear reason.
Building with Temperature?
We ship this.
If you're building with Temperature in production, we can help — from architecture review to full implementation.
Brief us