diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/generate.py b/llms/mlx_lm/generate.py
index 84dc63ca..afb1394e 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/generate.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/generate.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright © 2023-2024 Apple Inc.
 
 import argparse
-import codecs
 import json
 import sys
 
@@ -189,8 +188,8 @@ def main():
     elif using_cache:
         tokenizer.chat_template = metadata["chat_template"]
 
-    prompt = codecs.decode(args.prompt, "unicode_escape")
-
+    prompt = args.prompt.replace("\\n", "\n").replace("\\t", "\t")
+    prompt = sys.stdin.read() if prompt == "-" else prompt
     if not args.ignore_chat_template and (
         hasattr(tokenizer, "apply_chat_template")
         and tokenizer.chat_template is not None
@@ -199,12 +198,7 @@ def main():
             messages = [{"role": "system", "content": args.system_prompt}]
         else:
             messages = []
-        messages.append(
-            {
-                "role": "user",
-                "content": sys.stdin.read() if prompt == "-" else prompt,
-            }
-        )
+        messages.append({"role": "user", "content": prompt})
         prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
             messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
         )
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/sample_utils.py b/llms/mlx_lm/sample_utils.py
index c77f056a..c48a32cf 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/sample_utils.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/sample_utils.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ def make_sampler(
     top_p: float = 0.0,
     min_p: float = 0.0,
     min_tokens_to_keep: int = 1,
+    top_k: int = -1,
 ) -> Callable[mx.array, mx.array]:
     """
     Make a sampler function for use with ``generate_step``.
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ def make_sampler(
           probability) that a token probability must have to be considered.
         min_tokens_to_keep (int, optional): Minimum number of tokens that cannot
           be filtered by min_p sampling.
+        top_k (int, optional): The top k tokens ranked by probability to constrain
+          the sampling to.
 
     Returns:
         Callable[mx.array, mx.array]:
@@ -36,6 +39,8 @@ def make_sampler(
         return lambda x: top_p_sampling(x, top_p, temp)
     elif min_p != 0.0:
         return lambda x: min_p_sampling(x, min_p, min_tokens_to_keep, temp)
+    elif top_k > 0:
+        return lambda x: top_k_sampling(x, top_k, temp)
     else:
         return lambda x: categorical_sampling(x, temp)
 
@@ -79,6 +84,33 @@ def make_logits_processors(
     return logits_processors
 
 
+@partial(mx.compile, inputs=mx.random.state, outputs=mx.random.state)
+def top_k_sampling(
+    logprobs: mx.array,
+    top_k: int,
+    temperature=1.0,
+) -> mx.array:
+    """
+    Sample from only the top K tokens ranked by probability.
+
+    Args:
+        logprobs: A vector of log probabilities.
+        top_k (int): Top k tokens to sample from.
+    """
+    vocab_size = logprobs.shape[-1]
+    if not isinstance(top_k, int) or not (0 < top_k < vocab_size):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"`top_k` has to be an integer in the (0, {vocab_size}] interval,"
+            f" but is {top_k}."
+        )
+    logprobs = logprobs * (1 / temperature)
+    mask_idx = mx.argpartition(-logprobs, kth=top_k - 1, axis=-1)[..., top_k:]
+    masked_logprobs = mx.put_along_axis(
+        logprobs, mask_idx, mx.array(-float("inf"), logprobs.dtype), axis=-1
+    )
+    return mx.random.categorical(masked_logprobs, axis=-1)
+
+
 @partial(mx.compile, inputs=mx.random.state, outputs=mx.random.state)
 def min_p_sampling(
     logprobs: mx.array,
@@ -87,7 +119,7 @@ def min_p_sampling(
     temperature=1.0,
 ) -> mx.array:
     """
-    Apply min-p sampling to the logits.
+    Apply min-p sampling to the logprobs.
 
     Min-p keeps all tokens that are above a minimum probability, scaled by the
     probability of the most likely token. As a result, the filter is more
diff --git a/llms/tests/test_sample_utils.py b/llms/tests/test_sample_utils.py
index ebc90ce8..c45fa443 100644
--- a/llms/tests/test_sample_utils.py
+++ b/llms/tests/test_sample_utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import unittest
 
 import mlx.core as mx
-from mlx_lm.sample_utils import min_p_sampling, top_p_sampling
+from mlx_lm.sample_utils import min_p_sampling, top_k_sampling, top_p_sampling
 
 
 class TestSampleUtils(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -42,6 +42,27 @@ class TestSampleUtils(unittest.TestCase):
             token = min_p_sampling(logits, 0.05)
             self.assertTrue(token in (0, 3))
 
+    def test_top_k_sampling(self):
+        probs = mx.array([0.9, 0.0, 0.0, 0.1])[None]
+        logits = mx.log(probs)
+
+        token = top_k_sampling(logits, 1).item()
+        self.assertEqual(token, 0)
+
+        probs = mx.array([0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5])[None]
+        tokens = set()
+        for _ in range(100):
+            token = top_k_sampling(logits, 2)
+            tokens.add(token.item())
+        self.assertEqual(tokens, {0, 3})
+
+        # Batch mode works
+        probs = mx.array([[0.9, 0.0, 0.0, 0.1], [0.0, 0.8, 0.0, 0.1]])
+        logits = mx.log(probs)
+
+        tokens = top_k_sampling(logits, 1)
+        self.assertEqual(tokens.tolist(), [0, 1])
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()