Min-P Gains, Top-K/Top-P Stay Default

Min-P looks like the more modern sampler, but it is not a clean replacement for Top-K/Top-P; it is an extra control that behaves well in some regimes and poorly in others. The ecosystem is still in coexistence mode, not a standards-migration phase.

• –Min-P scales its cutoff by the model’s confidence, which can make generation feel more coherent at higher temperatures and less prone to junk tails.
• –It is still newer than Top-K/Top-P, so many model cards and runtimes default to the settings users already understand and every backend can support.
• –Hugging Face now documents `min_p`, but it documents `top_k` and `top_p` as standard generation controls too, which is a sign that Min-P has been added to the toolbox rather than crowned as the replacement.
• –Model authors often optimize for lowest-common-denominator reproducibility, so shipped configs tend to stay conservative even when newer samplers exist.
• –The practical rule is still model-specific tuning: start with the model’s recommended config, then test Min-P if you care about creative output or high-temperature sampling.