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Comment by wat10000

1 day ago

Most LLM software isn’t deterministic, sure. But LLMs are just doing a bunch of arithmetic. They can be 100% deterministic if you want them to be.

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kiitos  1 day ago

In practice, they definitely are not.

  • wat10000  1 day ago

    Only because nobody cares to. Just like compilers were not deterministic in practice until reproducible builds started getting attention.

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