jax.random.categorical¶

jax.random.categorical(key, logits, axis=- 1, shape=None)[source]¶

Sample random values from categorical distributions.

Parameters

key (Union[Any, PRNGKeyArray]) – a PRNG key used as the random key.
logits (Any) – Unnormalized log probabilities of the categorical distribution(s) to sample from, so that softmax(logits, axis) gives the corresponding probabilities.
axis (int) – Axis along which logits belong to the same categorical distribution.
shape (Optional[Sequence[int]]) – Optional, a tuple of nonnegative integers representing the result shape. Must be broadcast-compatible with np.delete(logits.shape, axis). The default (None) produces a result shape equal to np.delete(logits.shape, axis).

Return type

ndarray

Returns

A random array with int dtype and shape given by shape if shape is not None, or else np.delete(logits.shape, axis).