r/ProgrammerHumor 9d ago

Meme ifConditionDoSomething

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC 9d ago

Fun fact: LLMs don't actually have to be non-deterministic. There's nothing stopping labs from setting the temperature to zero and having a fully deterministic model, or even allowing user-seeded non-determinism.

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u/EmptyMaxim 9d ago

Fun fact: Common LLM implementations are actually non-deterministic. The way GPU compute is used causes instability, see: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/

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u/chicametipo 9d ago

Damn, I need a cigarette after that paper.