Top-K
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What is Top-K?
Top-K restricts token selection to the K most likely tokens from the probability distribution. Low values (1-10) produce conservative, factual outputs. Medium values (20-50) balance creativity and quality. High values (50+) enable diverse, creative outputs. Use low K for technical tasks, high K for creative writing.
Free resources to learn Top-K
- Official docsGemini API Prompting Strategies - Google
- ArticleTop K - LLM Parameter Guide - Vellum
More in stage 3: Output Control
Top-K: common questions
Can I learn Top-K in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Top-K in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Top-K tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 23 of 46 in the free Prompt Engineering roadmap, in stage 3, Output Control. If you are new to Prompt Engineering, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.