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Comment by wyrdcurt

2 hours ago

Except that even the exact same model won't output the exact same results, that's a fundamental aspect of how LLMs work. They're probabilistic/stochastic, not deterministic.

Models are weights for matrix operations, they are determenistics.

  • They are weights for matrix operations, so in principle you'd think they would be deterministic. In practice it's more complicated than that.

    Not to be snarky or dismissive, I mean this genuinely: ask an LLM about it. I currently have a headache so I'm not up to explaining the technical details, but they are interesting and worth reading about.