[jstanley]

> "GPUs don't do deterministic matrix multiplications" is the biggest source of randomness in LLMs.

But this isn't a fundamental property of LLMs, it's just an implementation detail. It's pretty obvious that if you evaluate the matrix multiplications correctly and deterministically sample from the highest-probability outputs, you will have a deterministic LLM.

[vbarrielle]

It may be an implementation detail, but in practice, if the only way to get a deterministic output is to run on the CPU, then it's not going to be usable.

[317070]

Actually, Google's TPUs are also deterministic!