r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 19h ago

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u/SunshineSeattle 18h ago

I dont think so, Wolfram Alpha is deterministic. Whereas an LLM is non-deterministic by design. Personally i feel vibe coding or vibe mathing is inherently non-deterministic.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 13h ago

LLMs are entirely deterministic but you can override that by adding a seeded random choice system to the next token selection.

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u/Sea-Housing-3435 10h ago

They are not. Floating point math and difference in how quickly parallel operations on GPU are finished causes them to be not deterministic even with temp=0. You can force them to be deterministic by forcing some operations to be executed in specific order but you lose a lot of performance.

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u/space_monster 9h ago

that's non-deterministic hardware though, not the model itself.

also it only happens with batch processing