# What does \`scores\` of \`generate\` method mean?

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```auto
model = TFAutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(checkpoint_local, return_dict_in_generate=True)

outputs = model.generate(**input_ids, max_length=max_len, do_sample=True, num_beams=5)

batch_score = outputs.scores

# the shape of batch_score is [batch_size]

```

Thank you very much!