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That’s not true in practice thought https://sulbhajain.medium.com/why-llms-arent-truly-deterministic-7cc7b451fdab https://sulbhajain.medium.com/why-llms-arent-t

• qsera 7mo ago
  that is why I said >If you control the randomness involved
  • basch 7mo ago
    Which you essentially cannot do It is inherently randomized
    • qsera 7mo ago
      But isn't the link shared by that comment doing exactly that https://sulbhajain.medium.com/why-llms-arent-truly-deterministic-7cc7b451fdab https://sulbhajain.medium.com/why-llms-arent-truly-determini... >The Thinking Machines research team showed it’s possible to fix this. They built batch-invariant kernels for RMSNorm, matrix multiplication, and attention, integrating them into the open-source inference engine vLLM. >The outcome: 1,000 identical prompts, 1,000 identical outputs. Perfect reproducibility. ??
• fc417fc802 7mo ago
  Even if it were true he would still be wrong. I wish HN had some mechanic to evict these sorts of troll accounts that attempt to score rhetorical points rather than honestly learning about a subject. The usual vote and flag mechanics don't work here because there's no singular and overt violation of the guidelines taking place.