Comment by 317070

If RL was used to train the model, the model will have been trained on its own sequences. Those will have been generated with a temperature of 1.0. They must be, otherwise you would get a premature collapse or explosion of your entropy if the temperature was respectively lower or higher.

After that RL step, you want to stick to the RL distribution, and so keep a temperature of 1.0. Other temperatures will drive the model out-of-distribution.

That is why the sampling step for agents or thinking LLMs are usually kept at a temperature of 1.0.