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Comment by esafak

2 years ago

They're different because Markov models are stateless whereas LLMs are stateful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_property

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Jensson  2 years ago

Current LLMs are stateless as far as we know, their state when computing a new token is only the preceding text tokens, they don't store any metadata or save state from the previous calculations.

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