Fix perplexity computation in perplexity.md #34387
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What does this PR do?
This pull request fixes an issue in the code of the Perplexity of fixed-length models documentation. The current implementation computes the arithmetic mean of the negative log-likelihood (NLL) per sequence chunk without accounting for the varying number of tokens in each chunk. This can lead to an inaccurate average NLL per token, as tokens in smaller chunks (like the last one) have a higher weight in the final perplexity calculation. The PR computes the arithmetic mean of NLL per token. The perplexity error is small in the provided example (
16.4541
vs.16.4443
), but I guess that it can be larger for shorter sequences.Before submitting
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