diff --git a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
index 70a6cd455dd278..252fded41bbbe0 100644
--- a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
+++ b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
             llama_token_data_array cur_p = { candidates.data(), candidates.size(), false };
 
-            // top-2 sampling
+            // computes softmax and sorts the candidates
             llama_sample_softmax(ctx_dft, &cur_p);
 
             for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {