sampling : make top_n_sigma no-op at <=0 or a single candidate (#13345)

Author: DocShotgun

src/llama-sampling.cpp

@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ static const char * llama_sampler_top_n_sigma_name(const struct llama_sampler *
 static void llama_sampler_top_n_sigma_apply(struct llama_sampler * smpl, llama_token_data_array * cur_p) {
     const auto * ctx = (llama_sampler_top_n_sigma *) smpl->ctx;
 
-    if (ctx->n < 0.0f) {
+    if (ctx->n <= 0.0f || cur_p->size <= 1) {
         return;
     }
 

tests/test-sampling.cpp

@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ int main(void) {
     test_dry({0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f}, {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1}, {0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f}, 1.0f, 1.1f, 4, 7, {});
 
     test_top_n_sigma({0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f}, {0.571429f, 0.428571f, 0.0f, 0.0f}, 1.00f);
-    test_top_n_sigma({0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f}, {1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f}, 0.00f);
+    test_top_n_sigma({0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f}, {0.4f, 0.3f, 0.2f, 0.1f}, 0.00f); // top_n_sigma == 0 now represents a no-op rather than greedy decoding as of PR#13345
     test_top_n_sigma({0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f}, {0.4f, 0.3f, 0.2f, 0.1f}, 3.00f);
 
     test_sampler_queue(10000, "k", 10000, 1.0f, 1.0f);