# Generation scores

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Hi, I’m trying to use `.generate()` method for decoder-only models(ex. GPT2), and figuring out that it provides various helpful values as well as the generated sequence(s). However, I cannot find detailed description of each value.

In detail, when I use beam search (by passing `num_beams` 3, `num_return-sequences`3, `do_sample` False), I can get `sequences`, `sequences_scores`, `scores`, and `beam_indices`. Obviously, `sequences` is the generated sequences(token ids). But what do others mean? And how can I compute them by hand?

Plus, 🤗huggingface transformers provide `compute_transition_scores()` method for each model. What does this value mean? How can I compute it? And what’s the difference between `scores` and `transition_scores`?