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by azakai 48 days ago
The hardware can also add nondeterminism. GPUs reorder operations, leading to different results.

Vendors might also be running A/B testing or who knows what, even when you ask for a temperature of 0.

But, if you run a fixed model with temperature 0 on your local CPU, it will be deterministic (unless there are bugs).