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by jayd16 756 days ago
LLMs are deterministic. We just sample the results, no? Also, no reason AI needs not be deterministic.
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> LLMs are deterministic.

In theory, yes. In practice, parallelism combined with floating point math make current implementations fundamentally non-deterministic.

Not fundamentally, but extremely costly to keep track of everything. Still deterministic though.
Can you elaborate more on the parallelism aspect?
Temperature cannot ever reach 0 (this causes a division error), so they are not deterministic.