diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/utils.cpp b/gpt4all-backend/utils.cpp
index 46827980..5dc44fad 100644
--- a/gpt4all-backend/utils.cpp
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/utils.cpp
@@ -232,6 +232,19 @@ gpt_vocab::id gpt_sample_top_k_top_p(
     const auto last_n_tokens = std::vector<int32_t>(last_n_tokens_data, last_n_tokens_data + last_n_tokens_size);
     const auto * plogits = logits.data();
 
+    if (temp <= 0) {
+        // select the token with the highest logit directly
+        float max_logit = plogits[0];
+        gpt_vocab::id max_id = 0;
+
+        for (int i = 1; i < n_logits; ++i) {
+            if (plogits[i] > max_logit) {
+                max_logit = plogits[i];
+                max_id = i;
+            }
+        }
+        return max_id;
+    }
     std::vector<std::pair<double, gpt_vocab::id>> logits_id;
     logits_id.reserve(n_logits);