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724 points simonw | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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xnx ◴[11 Jul 25 00:34 UTC] No.44527256[source]▶
> It’s worth noting that LLMs are non-deterministic,

This is probably better phrased as "LLMs may not provide consistent answers due to changing data and built-in randomness."

Barring rare(?) GPU race conditions, LLMs produce the same output given the same inputs.

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simonw ◴[11 Jul 25 00:58 UTC] No.44527395[source]▶
I don't think those race conditions are rare. None of the big hosted LLMs provide a temperature=0 plus fixed seed feature which they guarantee won't return different results, despite clear demand for that from developers.
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xnx ◴[11 Jul 25 01:41 UTC] No.44527634[source]▶
Fair. I dislike "non-deterministic" as a blanket llm descriptor for all llms since it implies some type of magic or quantum effect.
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1. tanewishly ◴[11 Jul 25 05:33 UTC] No.44528690[source]▶
Errr... that word implies some type of non-deterministic effect. Like using a randomizer without specifying the seed (ie. sampling from a distribution). I mean, stuff like NFAs (non-deterministic finite automata) isn't magic.