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Comment by frozenseven

3 months ago

>In practice most LLM systems use this distribution (along with a “temperature” multiplier) to make a weighted random choice among the tokens

In other words, LLMs are not deterministic in just about any real setting. What you said there only compounds with MoE architectures, variable test-time compute allocation, and o3-like sampling.

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