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AlotOfReadingyesterday at 5:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Unfortunately not. Various implementation details like attention are usually non-deterministic. This is one of the better blog posts I'm aware of:

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...


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8notetoday at 2:50 AM

i dont think theres anything that makes it essentiall that llms are non-deterministic though

if you rewrote the math to be all fixed point precision on big ints, i think you would still get the useful LLM results?

if somebody really wanted to make a compiler in an LLM, i dont think that nondetermism is problem

id really imagine an llm compiler being a set of specs, dependency versions, and test definitions to use though, and you'd introduce essential nondetermism by changing a version number, even if the only change was the version name from "experimental" to "lts"